Land Use Policy

Article	Citations
The relevance of sustainable soil management within the European Green Deal	259
Land use change and driving factors in rural China during the period 1995-2015	162
Nexus between nature-based solutions, ecosystem services and urban challenges	148
Cultivated land protection and rational use in China	136
Understanding cognitive and socio-psychological factors determining farmers’ intentions to use improved grassland: Implications of land use policy for sustainable pasture production	135
Territory spatial planning and national governance system in China	135
Future (post-COVID) digital, smart and sustainable cities in the wake of 6G: Digital twins, immersive realities and new urban economies	134
Spatial-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of agricultural eco-efficiency in China in recent 40 years	132
Land use transitions and urban-rural integrated development: Theoretical framework and China’s evidence	132
Quantifying spatial supply-demand mismatches in ecosystem services provides insights for land-use planning	128
Reflections on China's food security and land use policy under rapid urbanization	124
Agriculture 4.0: Making it work for people, production, and the planet	124
Green infrastructure and public policies: An international review of green roofs and green walls incentives	124
Spatial interaction between urbanization and ecosystem services in Chinese urban agglomerations	123
Worldwide trends in the scientific production on rural depopulation, a bibliometric analysis using bibliometrix R-tool	122
The effects of changing land use and flood hazard on poverty in coastal Bangladesh	114
Pandemic stricken cities on lockdown. Where are our planning and design professionals [now, then and into the future]?	111
Study on the coordinated relationship between Urban Land use efficiency and ecosystem health in China	109
Determinants of climate change adaptation strategies and its impact on the net farm income of rice farmers in south-west Nigeria	106
Exploring the influence of urban form on land-use efficiency from a spatiotemporal heterogeneity perspective: Evidence from 336 Chinese cities	97
The balance between economic development and ecosystem service value in the process of land urbanization: A case study of China’s land urbanization from 2000 to 2015	96
How land transfer marketization influence on green total factor productivity from the approach of industrial structure? Evidence from China	94
How land transfer affects agricultural land use efficiency: Evidence from China’s agricultural sector	92
Farmland transition in China and its policy implications	90
Rural decline or restructuring? Implications for sustainability transitions in rural China	89

Identifying the driving forces of non-grain production expansion in rural China and its implications for policies on cultivated land protection	87
What matters in the e-commerce era? Modelling and mapping shop rents in Guangzhou, China	86
Usage of urban green space and related feelings of deprivation during the COVID-19 lockdown: Lessons learned from an Italian case study	85
Urban land use efficiency and improvement potential in China: A stochastic frontier analysis	85
Urbanization, land use transformation and spatio-environmental impacts: Analyses of trends and implications in major metropolitan regions of Ghana	81
Land financialisation and the financing of urban development in China	80
How COVID-19 reshaped quality of life in cities: A synthesis and implications for urban planning	80
Integrated regional development: Comparison of urban agglomeration policies in China	79
Future scenarios based on a CA-Markov land use and land cover simulation model for a tropical humid basin in the Cerrado/Atlantic forest ecotone of Brazil	79
Does labor migration affect rural land transfer? Evidence from China	79
Land use regulation and urban land value: Evidence from China	79
Land use changes in the coastal zone of China’s Hebei Province and the corresponding impacts on habitat quality	78
Spatial heterogeneity analysis and driving forces exploring of built-up land development intensity in Chinese prefecture-level cities and implications for future Urban Land intensive use	77
Understanding trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services to support the decision-making in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region	77
Identification and spatial-temporal evolution of rural “production-living-ecological” space from the perspective of villagers’ behavior – A case study of Ertai Town, Zhangjiakou City	76
Poverty alleviation through land assetization and its implications for rural revitalization in China	76
Dynamics of land use, land cover change trend and its drivers in Jimma Geneti District, Western Ethiopia	76
Integrated landscape approaches in the tropics: A brief stock-take	75
Spatial pattern of arable land-use intensity in China	75
Urban land use efficiency in Ethiopia: An assessment of urban land use sustainability in Addis Ababa	75
Understanding house price appreciation using multi-source big geo-data and machine learning	74
China’s initiatives towards rural land system reform	73
Real estate supports rapid development of China's urbanization	73
Compact Urban Form and Expansion Pattern Slow Down the Decline in Urban Densities: A Global Perspective	73
Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union	73
Neighborhood characteristics, neighborhood satisfaction, and well-being: The links with neighborhood deprivation	73
Influencing factors of farmers' adoption of pro-environmental agricultural technologies in China: Meta-analysis	72
Urbanization’s effects on the urban-rural income gap in China: A meta-regression analysis	71
Actions against sustainability: Dismantling of the environmental policies in Brazil	71
Household-owned farm machinery vs. outsourced machinery services: The impact of agricultural mechanization on the land leasing behavior of relatively large-scale farmers in China	71
Brazil’s conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia	70
Examining the policy needs for implementing nature-based solutions in cities: Findings from city-wide transdisciplinary experiences in Glasgow (UK), Genk (Belgium) and Poznań (Poland)	70
Time Preferences and green agricultural technology adoption: Field evidence from rice farmers in China	69
Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest	69
Understanding the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers: Evidence from land reform beneficiaries in South Africa	69
How collective efficacy makes a difference in responses to water shortage due to climate change in southwest Iran	69
Effects of land transfer quality on the application of organic fertilizer by large-scale farmers in China	69
How feasible is regional integration for reconciling land use conflicts across the urban–rural interface? Evidence from Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei metropolitan region in China	67
Changes in and prospects for cultivated land use since the reform and opening up in China	67
Urbanization and ecosystem services: The multi-scale spatial spillover effects and spatial variations	67
Land finance dependence and urban land marketization in China: The perspective of strategic choice of local governments on land transfer	66
Adoption of precision farming tools: A context-related analysis	66
The impacts of population and agglomeration development on land use intensity: New evidence behind urbanization in China	66
Linking ecosystem services trade-offs, bundles and hotspot identification with cropland management in the coastal Hangzhou Bay area of China	65
Regional differences and dynamic evolution of urban land green use efficiency within the Yangtze River Delta, China	65
Quantitative evaluation of China’s cultivated land protection policies based on the PMC-Index model	65
Comparing the spatial and temporal dynamics of urban expansion in Guangzhou and Shenzhen from 1975 to 2015: A case study of pioneer cities in China’s rapid urbanization	65
Urban planning policy must do more to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation actions	65
Climate change risk perceptions and agricultural adaptation strategies in vulnerable riverine char islands of Bangladesh	64
Simplistic understandings of farmer motivations could undermine the environmental potential of the common agricultural policy	64

Monitoring the effects of land consolidation on the ecological environmental quality based on remote sensing: A case study of Chaohu Lake Basin, China	64
Optimize and control territorial spatial functional areas to improve the ecological stability and total environment in karst areas of Southwest China	64
Does social capital matter in climate change adaptation? A lesson from agricultural sector in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	63
Smart farming and short food supply chains: Are they compatible?	63
Relationship between urban construction land expansion and population/economic growth in Liaoning Province, China	63
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public	63
Spatial pattern evolution of rural settlements from 1961 to 2030 in Tongzhou District, China	62
Mechanism of regional land use transition in underdeveloped areas of China: A case study of northeast China	62
A cellular automata-based land-use model as an integrated spatial decision support system for urban planning in developing cities: The case of the Bogotá region	61
Towards cultivated land multifunction assessment in China: Applying the “influencing factors-functions-products-demands” integrated framework	61
Land governance as a precondition for decreasing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	61
Trend assessment of the watershed health based on DPSIR framework	61
Spatial and temporal analyses of potential land use conflict under the constraints of water resources in the middle reaches of the Heihe River	60
Study the effect of industrial structure optimization on urban land-use efficiency in China	59
Governance of ecosystem services trade-offs in peri-urban landscapes	59
Urban greening: A new paradox of economic or social sustainability?	58
Employing remote sensing technique to monitor the influence of newly established universities in creating an urban development process on the respective cities	58
Rural Revitalization in China: Land-Use Optimization through the Practice of Place-making	56
A social-media-based approach to assessing the effectiveness of equitable housing policy in mitigating education accessibility induced social inequalities in Shanghai, China	55
Implications of land use transitions and climate change on local flooding in urban areas: An assessment of 42 Indian cities	55
Compact urbanism and the synergic potential of its integration with data-driven smart urbanism : An extensive interdisciplinary literature review	55
How does off-farm work affect chemical fertilizer application? Evidence from China’s mountainous and plain areas	54
Analyzing driving factors of land values in urban scale based on big data and non-linear machine learning techniques	54
Trade-offs and driving forces of land use functions in ecologically fragile areas of northern Hebei Province: Spatiotemporal analysis	53
Rewilding and restoring cultural landscapes in Mediterranean mountains: Opportunities and challenges	53
Is high-tech zone a policy trap or a growth drive? Insights from the perspective of urban land use efficiency	53
Ecological effects of land-use change on two sides of the Hu Huanyong Line in China	53
The influence of agricultural industrial policy on non-grain production of cultivated land: A case study of the “one village, one product” strategy implemented in Guanzhong Plain of China	53
What is the most suitable methodological approach to demarcate peri-urban areas? A systematic review of the literature	53
City size, industrial structure and urbanization quality—A case study of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration in China	53
Analyzing the deviation between farmers' Land transfer intention and behavior in China's impoverished mountainous Area: A Logistic-ISM model approach	52
Optimization of cultivated land pattern for achieving cultivated land system security: A case study in Heilongjiang Province, China	51
Spatio-temporal variation and coupling coordination relationship between urbanisation and habitat quality in the Grand Canal, China	51
Understanding the impacts of ‘Grain for Green’ land management practice on land greening dynamics over the Loess Plateau of China	51
Who is resilient in Africa’s Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda	51
Adoption and diffusion of improved technologies and production practices in agriculture: Insights from a donor-led intervention in Nepal	50
Evaluation and simulation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services trade-offs in ecological restoration areas, China	50
Suitability evaluation of urban construction land in Pendik district of Istanbul, Turkey	50
Analyzing the behavioural mechanism of farmland abandonment in the hilly mountainous areas in China from the perspective of farming household diversity	50
Economic impacts of smallholder farmers’ adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties	49
Off-farm employment and agricultural land use efficiency in China	49
China’s local governments breaking the land use planning quota: A strategic interaction perspective	49
Empirical investigation of urban land use efficiency and influencing factors of the Yellow River basin Chinese cities	49
Policy recommendations for enabling transition towards sustainable agriculture in India	49
Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter?	49
Prospective evaluation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services in the Ourika watershed, Morocco	49
A sustainable framework for spatial planning of photovoltaic solar farms using GIS and multi-criteria assessment approach in Central Anatolia, Turkey	48
A fine-scale spatial analytics of the assessment and mapping of buildings and population at different risk levels of urban flood	48
The network governance of urban renewal: A comparative analysis of two cities in China	48
Farm size and Land use efficiency in the Brazilian Amazon	48
Reexamine China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance under land use-type and climate change	47
Scenario simulation of land system change in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	46
How does industrial agglomeration affect urban land use efficiency? A spatial analysis of Chinese cities	46
For the Environment: An Assessment of Recent Military Intervention in Informal Gold Mining Communities in Ghana	46
Property rights and adjustment for sustainable development during post-productivist transitions in China	46
Efficiency of urban land use in China’s resource-based cities, 2000–2018	46
Exploring the drivers of green agricultural development (GAD) in China: A spatial association network structure approaches	45
Spatial determinants of land redevelopment in the urban renewal processes in Shenzhen, China	45
RETRACTED: Life in riverine islands in Bangladesh: Local adaptation strategies of climate vulnerable riverine island dwellers for livelihood resilience	45
Sustainability of urban regeneration projects: Novel selection model based on analytic network process and zero-one goal programming	45
Study on the spatial differentiation of environmental governance performance of Yangtze river urban agglomeration in Jiangsu province of China	45
Impact of livelihood capital endowment on poverty alleviation of households under rural land consolidation	45
Sustainable agricultural practices, environmental risk mitigation and livelihood improvements: Empirical evidence from Northern Ethiopia	45
Effect of the housing purchase restriction policy on the Real Estate Market: Evidence from a typical suburb of Beijing, China	44
Lawless land in no man’s land: The undesignated public forests in the Brazilian Amazon	44
Interaction between urban land expansion and land use policy: An analysis using the DPSIR framework	44
Multi-dimensional hollowing characteristics of traditional villages and its influence mechanism based on the micro-scale: A case study of Dongcun Village in Suzhou, China	44
What is the future of abandoned agricultural lands? A systematic review of alternative trajectories in Europe	44
Analysis of influencing factors of cultivated land fragmentation based on hierarchical linear model: A case study of Jiangsu Province, China	44
What makes cities livable? Determinants of neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness in different contexts	44
Understanding farmers’ climate adaptation intention in Iran: A protection-motivation extended model	44
Collaborative decision-making for urban regeneration: A literature review and bibliometric analysis	43
Exploring the non-linear effects of city size on urban industrial land use efficiency: A spatial econometric analysis of cities in eastern China	43
Land-use and land-cover change in Lake Ziway watershed of the Ethiopian Central Rift Valley Region and its environmental impacts	43
Study on the abandonment of sloping farmland in Fengjie County, Three Gorges Reservoir Area, a mountainous area in China	43
Urban expansion simulation under constraint of multiple ecosystem services (MESs) based on cellular automata (CA)-Markov model: Scenario analysis and policy implications	42
National urban land-use/cover change since the beginning of the 21st century and its policy implications in China	42
Structural equation modeling for indicators of sustainable agriculture: Prospective of a developing country’s agriculture	42
Tourism-driven rural spatial restructuring in the metropolitan fringe: An empirical observation	42
High boreal forest multifunctionality requires continuous cover forestry as a dominant management	42

Public policy change and its impact on urban expansion: An evaluation of 265 cities in China	42
Land space optimization of urban-agriculture-ecological functions in the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Urban Agglomeration, China	41
Toward a tenure-responsive approach to forest landscape restoration: A proposed tenure diagnostic for assessing restoration opportunities	41
Assessing restoration priorities for high-risk ecosystems: An application of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems	41
Rural Residential Land Transition in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region: Spatial-Temporal Patterns and Policy Implications	41
How cropland losses shaped by unbalanced urbanization process?	41
Amazonian indigenous peoples are threatened by Brazil’s Highway BR-319	41
Farmers’ awareness level and their perceptions of climate change: A case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan	41
Understanding the impact of land finance on industrial structure change in China: Insights from a spatial econometric analysis	40
Impact of farmer self-identity and attitudes on participation in agri-environment schemes	40
What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture?	40
Assessing the effectiveness of rural credit policy on the adoption of integrated crop-livestock systems in Brazil	40
Payments by modelled results: A novel design for agri-environmental schemes	40
Spatial and transient modelling of land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics in a Sahelian landscape under semi-arid climate in northern Burkina Faso	39
Urban land use effects of high-speed railway network in China: A spatial spillover perspective	39
Effects of a carbon tax in the United States on agricultural markets and carbon emissions from land-use change	39
Towards a comprehensive understanding of intercity cooperation in China’s city-regionalization: A comparative study of Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Foshan city groups	39
Land consolidation: A comparative research between Europe and China	39
Land-use conflicts in coastal tourism and the quest for governance innovations	39
A mass appraisal assessment study using machine learning based on multiple regression and random forest	39
Do compact cities have higher efficiencies of agglomeration economies? A dynamic panel model with compactness indicators	39
Trends in global virtual land trade in relation to agricultural products	38
Reclaiming small to fill large: A novel approach to rural residential land consolidation in China	38
Key challenges for governing forest and landscape restoration across different contexts	38
Modelling landscape ecological assessments of land use and cover change scenarios. Application to the Bojnourd Metropolitan Area (NE Iran)	38
How do non-farm employment and agricultural mechanization impact on large-scale farming? A spatial panel data analysis from Jiangsu Province, China	37
What is the policy improvement of China’s land consolidation? Evidence from completed land consolidation projects in Shaanxi Province	37
Effects of land abandonment on nature contributions to people and good quality of life components in the Mediterranean region: A review	37
Scenario simulation of the tradeoff between ecological land and farmland in black soil region of Northeast China	37
Spatial identification and trade-off analysis of land use functions improve spatial zoning management in rapid urbanized areas, China	37
RETRACTED: Livelihood diversification in rural Bangladesh: Patterns and determinants in disaster prone riverine islands	37
Quantifying the contribution of diminishing green spaces and urban sprawl to urban heat island effect in a rapidly urbanizing metropolitan city of Pakistan	37
Rapidly escalating threats to the biodiversity and ethnocultural capital of Brazilian Indigenous Lands	37
Urbanization-associated farmland loss: A macro-micro comparative study in China	37
Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework	37
Exploring the effects of rural site conditions and household livelihood capitals on agricultural land transfers in China	37
Extension, advice and knowledge systems for private forestry: Understanding diversity and change across Europe	36
What role does land consolidation play in the multi-dimensional rural revitalization in China? A research synthesis	36
Conversion of agricultural and forest land to other purposes in the context of land protection: Evidence from Polish experience	36
An agent-based learning-embedded model (ABM-learning) for urban land use planning: A case study of residential land growth simulation in Shenzhen, China	36
Analysis of commercial land leasing of the district governments of Beijing in China	36
Assessing soil ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban areas: From urban soils survey to providing support tool for urban planning	36
Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India	36
Modeling the interaction of internal and external systems of rural settlements: The case of Guangdong, China	36
Towards sustainable urban transition: A critical review of strategies and policies of urban village renewal in Shenzhen, China	36
The effect on poverty alleviation and income increase of rural land consolidation in different models: A China study	36
Spatial differentiation characteristics and driving mechanism of rural-industrial Land transition: A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China	36
Positive impacts of farmland fragmentation on agricultural production efficiency in Qilu Lake watershed: Implications for appropriate scale management	35
Homestead management in China from the “separation of two rights” to the “separation of three rights”: Visualization and analysis of hot topics and trends by mapping knowledge domains of academic pape	35
Use of fuzzy cognitive maps to develop policy strategies for the optimization of municipal waste management: A case study of the land of fires (Italy)	35
Smart systems of innovation for smart places: Challenges in deploying digital platforms for co-creation and data-intelligence	35
A Digital Economy to Develop Policy Related to Transport and Logistics. Predictive Lessons from Russia	35
Evolution characteristics and driving factors of negative decoupled rural residential land and resident population in the Yellow River Basin	35
Evaluating the impact of land fragmentation on the cost of agricultural operation in the southwest mountainous areas of China	35
Global urban sprawl containment strategies and their implications for rapidly urbanising cities in Ghana	34
Factors influencing the adoption of agroforestry by smallholder farmer households in Tanzania: Case studies from Morogoro and Dodoma	34
Delineation of a basic farmland protection zone based on spatial connectivity and comprehensive quality evaluation: A case study of Changsha City, China	34
Evaluation of the environmental effects of intensive land consolidation: A field-based case study of the Chinese Loess Plateau	34
Measuring urban sprawl using land use data	34
Land consolidation activities in Sub-Saharan Africa towards the agenda 2030: A tale of three countries	34
3 Dimensional data research for property valuation in the context of the LADM Valuation Information Model	34
Understanding the term green infrastructure: origins, rationales, semantic content and purposes as well as its relevance for application in spatial planning	34
Strategic use of land policy instruments for affordable housing – Coping with social challenges under scarce land conditions in Swiss cities	34
Ecological response to urban development in a changing socio-economic and climate context: Policy implications for balancing regional development and habitat conservation	34
Assessment of land use and land cover changes and valuation of carbon stocks in the Sergipe semiarid region, Brazil: 1992–2030	34
Sustainable land use diagnosis based on the perspective of production–living–ecological spaces in China	33
The coupled relationships between land development and land ownership at China’s urban fringe: A structural equation modeling approach	33
The Urban Regeneration Engine Model: An analytical framework and case study of the renewal of old communities	33
Factors influencing the use of adaptation strategies to climate change in paddy lands of Kamfiruz, Iran	33
Simulation of land-use pattern evolution in hilly mountainous areas of North China: A case study in Jincheng	33
The contribution of Fintech to sustainable development in the digital age: Ant forest and land restoration in China	33
Bits and pieces: Forest fragmentation by linear intrusions in India	33
Upzoning and value capture: How U.S. local governments use land use regulation power to create and capture value from real estate developments	33
Land use and land cover scenarios: An interdisciplinary approach integrating local conditions and the global shared socioeconomic pathways	33
Governance challenges of small-scale gold mining in Ghana: Insights from a process net-map study	33
Global forest management, carbon sequestration and bioenergy supply under alternative shared socioeconomic pathways	33
Can technology help achieve sustainable intensification? Evidence from milk recording on Irish dairy farms	33
Reforestation and smallholder livelihoods in the humid tropics	32
Investigation of urban green space equity at the city level and relevant strategies for improving the provisioning in China	32
Analyzing the women’s empowerment and food security nexus in rural areas of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan: By giving consideration to sense of land entitlement and infrastructural facilities	32
Migration, socioeconomic transformation, and land-use change in Mexico’s Mixteca Alta: Lessons for forest transition theory	32
An indicator to reflect the mitigating effect of Common Agricultural Policy on soil erosion	32
Does the land titling program promote rural housing land transfer in China? Evidence from household surveys in Hubei Province	32
Planning consistency and implementation in urbanizing China: Comparing urban and land use plans in suburban Beijing	32
An economic analysis of agricultural adaptation to climate change impacts in Sri Lanka: An endogenous switching regression analysis	32
Explaining objective forces, driving forces, and causal mechanisms affecting the formation and expansion of the peri-urban areas: A critical realism approach	32
Strengthening the effectiveness of nature reserves in representing ecosystem services: The Yangtze River Economic Belt in China	32
Dynamics of spatial relationships among ecosystem services and their determinants: Implications for land use system reform in Northwestern China	32
Emotions analysis in public spaces for urban planning	32
Tracking 130 years of coastal wetland reclamation in Ria Formosa, Portugal: Opportunities for conservation and aquaculture	32
Identifying ecosystem service supply-demand imbalance for sustainable land management in China’s Loess Plateau	32
Barrier identification framework for the implementation of blue and green infrastructures	31
Toward classification-based sustainable revitalization: Assessing the vitality of traditional villages	31
Urban resilience in climate change hotspot	31
Amazon forest on the edge of collapse in the Maranhão State, Brazil	31