Land Use Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Land Use Policy is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The relevance of sustainable soil management within the European Green Deal304
Land use change and driving factors in rural China during the period 1995-2015214
Reflections on China's food security and land use policy under rapid urbanization175
Cultivated land protection and rational use in China173
Spatial interaction between urbanization and ecosystem services in Chinese urban agglomerations172
Nexus between nature-based solutions, ecosystem services and urban challenges172
Future (post-COVID) digital, smart and sustainable cities in the wake of 6G: Digital twins, immersive realities and new urban economies166
Territory spatial planning and national governance system in China166
Agriculture 4.0: Making it work for people, production, and the planet155
Understanding cognitive and socio-psychological factors determining farmers’ intentions to use improved grassland: Implications of land use policy for sustainable pasture production147
Study on the coordinated relationship between Urban Land use efficiency and ecosystem health in China135
The effects of changing land use and flood hazard on poverty in coastal Bangladesh126
How land transfer affects agricultural land use efficiency: Evidence from China’s agricultural sector120
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 2015120
Understanding trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services to support the decision-making in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region114
Land financialisation and the financing of urban development in China110
Integrated regional development: Comparison of urban agglomeration policies in China109
Land use changes in the coastal zone of China’s Hebei Province and the corresponding impacts on habitat quality109
Usage of urban green space and related feelings of deprivation during the COVID-19 lockdown: Lessons learned from an Italian case study107
Urban land use efficiency and improvement potential in China: A stochastic frontier analysis106
Household-owned farm machinery vs. outsourced machinery services: The impact of agricultural mechanization on the land leasing behavior of relatively large-scale farmers in China104
Understanding house price appreciation using multi-source big geo-data and machine learning103
Does labor migration affect rural land transfer? Evidence from China100
Time Preferences and green agricultural technology adoption: Field evidence from rice farmers in China99
What matters in the e-commerce era? Modelling and mapping shop rents in Guangzhou, China97
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 Brazil96
Dynamics of land use, land cover change trend and its drivers in Jimma Geneti District, Western Ethiopia95
Spatial pattern of arable land-use intensity in China95
How COVID-19 reshaped quality of life in cities: A synthesis and implications for urban planning95
Influencing factors of farmers' adoption of pro-environmental agricultural technologies in China: Meta-analysis94
Identification and spatial-temporal evolution of rural “production-living-ecological” space from the perspective of villagers’ behavior – A case study of Ertai Town, Zhangjiakou City94
Poverty alleviation through land assetization and its implications for rural revitalization in China93
Urban planning policy must do more to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation actions93
Urbanization’s effects on the urban-rural income gap in China: A meta-regression analysis91
Urbanization and ecosystem services: The multi-scale spatial spillover effects and spatial variations91
Simplistic understandings of farmer motivations could undermine the environmental potential of the common agricultural policy89
Integrated landscape approaches in the tropics: A brief stock-take89
Actions against sustainability: Dismantling of the environmental policies in Brazil89
Effects of land transfer quality on the application of organic fertilizer by large-scale farmers in China89
Urban land use efficiency in Ethiopia: An assessment of urban land use sustainability in Addis Ababa88
Regional differences and dynamic evolution of urban land green use efficiency within the Yangtze River Delta, China88
Land finance dependence and urban land marketization in China: The perspective of strategic choice of local governments on land transfer88
Neighborhood characteristics, neighborhood satisfaction, and well-being: The links with neighborhood deprivation87
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public86
Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union85
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 use85
Understanding the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers: Evidence from land reform beneficiaries in South Africa85
Brazil’s conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia83
How collective efficacy makes a difference in responses to water shortage due to climate change in southwest Iran81
Optimize and control territorial spatial functional areas to improve the ecological stability and total environment in karst areas of Southwest China80
Quantitative evaluation of China’s cultivated land protection policies based on the PMC-Index model79
Relationship between urban construction land expansion and population/economic growth in Liaoning Province, China78
Climate change risk perceptions and agricultural adaptation strategies in vulnerable riverine char islands of Bangladesh78
Study the effect of industrial structure optimization on urban land-use efficiency in China77
Trend assessment of the watershed health based on DPSIR framework76
Ecological effects of land-use change on two sides of the Hu Huanyong Line in China76
Spatio-temporal variation and coupling coordination relationship between urbanisation and habitat quality in the Grand Canal, China75
Spatial pattern evolution of rural settlements from 1961 to 2030 in Tongzhou District, China72
Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter?72
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 China70
City size, industrial structure and urbanization quality—A case study of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration in China69
Towards cultivated land multifunction assessment in China: Applying the “influencing factors-functions-products-demands” integrated framework69
Trade-offs and driving forces of land use functions in ecologically fragile areas of northern Hebei Province: Spatiotemporal analysis67
Suitability evaluation of urban construction land in Pendik district of Istanbul, Turkey67
Exploring the drivers of green agricultural development (GAD) in China: A spatial association network structure approaches67
What makes cities livable? Determinants of neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness in different contexts66
Rewilding and restoring cultural landscapes in Mediterranean mountains: Opportunities and challenges65
Effects of land abandonment on nature contributions to people and good quality of life components in the Mediterranean region: A review65
How does off-farm work affect chemical fertilizer application? Evidence from China’s mountainous and plain areas65
Employing remote sensing technique to monitor the influence of newly established universities in creating an urban development process on the respective cities64
Optimization of cultivated land pattern for achieving cultivated land system security: A case study in Heilongjiang Province, China63
Collaborative decision-making for urban regeneration: A literature review and bibliometric analysis63
A fine-scale spatial analytics of the assessment and mapping of buildings and population at different risk levels of urban flood63
What is the future of abandoned agricultural lands? A systematic review of alternative trajectories in Europe63
Reexamine China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance under land use-type and climate change62
Efficiency of urban land use in China’s resource-based cities, 2000–201861
Analyzing the behavioural mechanism of farmland abandonment in the hilly mountainous areas in China from the perspective of farming household diversity61
Empirical investigation of urban land use efficiency and influencing factors of the Yellow River basin Chinese cities61
What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture?60
How does industrial agglomeration affect urban land use efficiency? A spatial analysis of Chinese cities60
Impact of livelihood capital endowment on poverty alleviation of households under rural land consolidation60
The network governance of urban renewal: A comparative analysis of two cities in China59
Spatial determinants of land redevelopment in the urban renewal processes in Shenzhen, China59
Understanding the impacts of ‘Grain for Green’ land management practice on land greening dynamics over the Loess Plateau of China58
Towards sustainable urban transition: A critical review of strategies and policies of urban village renewal in Shenzhen, China58
Evaluation and simulation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services trade-offs in ecological restoration areas, China57
Off-farm employment and agricultural land use efficiency in China57
Payments by modelled results: A novel design for agri-environmental schemes56
Farm size and Land use efficiency in the Brazilian Amazon56
The contribution of Fintech to sustainable development in the digital age: Ant forest and land restoration in China56
Quantifying the contribution of diminishing green spaces and urban sprawl to urban heat island effect in a rapidly urbanizing metropolitan city of Pakistan55
Multi-dimensional hollowing characteristics of traditional villages and its influence mechanism based on the micro-scale: A case study of Dongcun Village in Suzhou, China55
Assessing restoration priorities for high-risk ecosystems: An application of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems54
How do non-farm employment and agricultural mechanization impact on large-scale farming? A spatial panel data analysis from Jiangsu Province, China54
A sustainable framework for spatial planning of photovoltaic solar farms using GIS and multi-criteria assessment approach in Central Anatolia, Turkey53
A mass appraisal assessment study using machine learning based on multiple regression and random forest53
Understanding the impact of land finance on industrial structure change in China: Insights from a spatial econometric analysis53
Sustainability of urban regeneration projects: Novel selection model based on analytic network process and zero-one goal programming52
Spatial identification and trade-off analysis of land use functions improve spatial zoning management in rapid urbanized areas, China51
Scenario simulation of the tradeoff between ecological land and farmland in black soil region of Northeast China51
Effects of a carbon tax in the United States on agricultural markets and carbon emissions from land-use change51
Lawless land in no man’s land: The undesignated public forests in the Brazilian Amazon51
Quantifying the spatial impact of landscape fragmentation on habitat quality: A multi-temporal dimensional comparison between the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Yellow River Basin of China51
Land consolidation: A comparative research between Europe and China51
Spatial and transient modelling of land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics in a Sahelian landscape under semi-arid climate in northern Burkina Faso50
Land space optimization of urban-agriculture-ecological functions in the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Urban Agglomeration, China50
Sustainable land use diagnosis based on the perspective of production–living–ecological spaces in China50
Structural equation modeling for indicators of sustainable agriculture: Prospective of a developing country’s agriculture50
Analysis of influencing factors of cultivated land fragmentation based on hierarchical linear model: A case study of Jiangsu Province, China50
Urban expansion simulation under constraint of multiple ecosystem services (MESs) based on cellular automata (CA)-Markov model: Scenario analysis and policy implications50
Study on the spatial differentiation of environmental governance performance of Yangtze river urban agglomeration in Jiangsu province of China49
Exploring the non-linear effects of city size on urban industrial land use efficiency: A spatial econometric analysis of cities in eastern China49
What role does land consolidation play in the multi-dimensional rural revitalization in China? A research synthesis49
Property rights and adjustment for sustainable development during post-productivist transitions in China49
Interaction between urban land expansion and land use policy: An analysis using the DPSIR framework48
Do compact cities have higher efficiencies of agglomeration economies? A dynamic panel model with compactness indicators48
Does misallocation of land resources reduce urban green total factor productivity? An analysis of city-level panel data in China48
High boreal forest multifunctionality requires continuous cover forestry as a dominant management48
Urban land use effects of high-speed railway network in China: A spatial spillover perspective48
Positive impacts of farmland fragmentation on agricultural production efficiency in Qilu Lake watershed: Implications for appropriate scale management48
Assessing soil ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban areas: From urban soils survey to providing support tool for urban planning48
Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework47
Cultivated land loss and construction land expansion in China: Evidence from national land surveys in 1996, 2009 and 201947
Spatial differentiation characteristics and driving mechanism of rural-industrial Land transition: A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China47
Evaluating the impact of land fragmentation on the cost of agricultural operation in the southwest mountainous areas of China46
Urbanization-associated farmland loss: A macro-micro comparative study in China46
Farmers and Social Innovations in Rural Development: Collaborative Arrangements in Eastern Brazilian Amazon46
Barrier identification framework for the implementation of blue and green infrastructures46
Governance challenges of small-scale gold mining in Ghana: Insights from a process net-map study45
Global forest management, carbon sequestration and bioenergy supply under alternative shared socioeconomic pathways45
Key challenges for governing forest and landscape restoration across different contexts45
The Urban Regeneration Engine Model: An analytical framework and case study of the renewal of old communities45
Toward classification-based sustainable revitalization: Assessing the vitality of traditional villages45
Global urban sprawl containment strategies and their implications for rapidly urbanising cities in Ghana45
Strategic use of land policy instruments for affordable housing – Coping with social challenges under scarce land conditions in Swiss cities45
In search of factors determining the participation of farmers in agri-environmental schemes – Does only money matter in Poland?44
Towards a comprehensive understanding of intercity cooperation in China’s city-regionalization: A comparative study of Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Foshan city groups44
Smart systems of innovation for smart places: Challenges in deploying digital platforms for co-creation and data-intelligence44
The effect on poverty alleviation and income increase of rural land consolidation in different models: A China study44
Transit-oriented development with urban sprawl? Four phases of urban growth and policy intervention in Tokyo43
Modelling landscape ecological assessments of land use and cover change scenarios. Application to the Bojnourd Metropolitan Area (NE Iran)43
Exploring the effects of rural site conditions and household livelihood capitals on agricultural land transfers in China43
Toward a tenure-responsive approach to forest landscape restoration: A proposed tenure diagnostic for assessing restoration opportunities43
New reflections on food security and land use strategies based on the evolution of Chinese dietary patterns43
An economic analysis of agricultural adaptation to climate change impacts in Sri Lanka: An endogenous switching regression analysis43
Assessment of land use and land cover changes and valuation of carbon stocks in the Sergipe semiarid region, Brazil: 1992–203042
Does visual contact with green space impact housing pricesʔ An integrated approach of machine learning and hedonic modeling based on the perception of green space42
Identifying ecosystem service supply-demand imbalance for sustainable land management in China’s Loess Plateau42
Modeling the interaction of internal and external systems of rural settlements: The case of Guangdong, China42
Evaluating the sustainability of urban renewal projects based on a model of hybrid multiple-attribute decision-making42
Land consolidation activities in Sub-Saharan Africa towards the agenda 2030: A tale of three countries42
Analysis of the urban growth pattern through spatial metrics; Ankara City42
A Digital Economy to Develop Policy Related to Transport and Logistics. Predictive Lessons from Russia42
Reclaiming small to fill large: A novel approach to rural residential land consolidation in China42
What is the policy improvement of China’s land consolidation? Evidence from completed land consolidation projects in Shaanxi Province41
Evolution characteristics and driving factors of negative decoupled rural residential land and resident population in the Yellow River Basin41
Delineation of a basic farmland protection zone based on spatial connectivity and comprehensive quality evaluation: A case study of Changsha City, China41
Land use and travel burden of residents in urban fringe and rural areas: An evaluation of urban-rural integration initiatives in Beijing41
Spatial Coordination Incentives for landscape-scale environmental management: A systematic review41
3 Dimensional data research for property valuation in the context of the LADM Valuation Information Model40
Emotions analysis in public spaces for urban planning40
Green gentrification or gentrified greening: Metropolitan Melbourne40
Analysis of Land Use Land Cover Dynamics and Driving Factors in Desa’a Forest in Northern Ethiopia40
Dynamics of spatial relationships among ecosystem services and their determinants: Implications for land use system reform in Northwestern China40
Urban green spaces for elderly human health: A planning model for healthy city living40
Can urban agglomeration bring “1 + 1 > 2Effect”? A perspective of land resource carrying capacity40
Funding deficits of protected areas in Brazil39
Housing and land financialization under the state ownership of land in China39
Urban resilience in climate change hotspot39
Urban land use planning in Ghana: Navigating complex coalescence of land ownership and administration39
Overt and covert: The relationship between the transfer of land development rights and carbon emissions39
Investigation of urban green space equity at the city level and relevant strategies for improving the provisioning in China39
Analysis of commercial land leasing of the district governments of Beijing in China39
How do the surrounding areas of national parks work in the context of landscape fragmentation? A case study of 159 protected areas selected in 11 EU countries39
Driving factors and assessment of changes in the use of arable land in Tanzania38
Analysis on the effect and mechanism of land misallocation on carbon emissions efficiency: Evidence from China38
Spatial suitability and multi-scenarios for land use: Simulation and policy insights from the production-living-ecological perspective38
Factors influencing the adoption of agroforestry by smallholder farmer households in Tanzania: Case studies from Morogoro and Dodoma38
Subjective land ownership and the endowment effect in land markets: A case study of the farmland “three rights separation” reform in China38
Analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics of urban sprawl and growth pattern using geospatial technologies and landscape metrics in Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia38
Does participatory farmer-to-farmer training improve the adoption of sustainable land management practices?38
Does the agglomeration of urban producer services promote carbon efficiency of manufacturing industry?38
The coupled relationships between land development and land ownership at China’s urban fringe: A structural equation modeling approach37
Spatial-temporal characteristics and policy implication for non-grain production of cultivated land in Guanzhong Region37
A typical phenomenon of cultivated land use in China's economically developed areas: Anti-intensification in Jiangsu Province37
Simulation of land-use pattern evolution in hilly mountainous areas of North China: A case study in Jincheng37
Territorial spatial planning for regional high-quality development – An analytical framework for the identification, mediation and transmission of potential land utilization conflicts in the Yellow Ri37
Perceived importance and economic valuation of ecosystem services in Ghodaghodi wetland of Nepal37
Tracking the history of urban expansion in Guangzhou (China) during 1665–2017: Evidence from historical maps and remote sensing images37
Estimate provincial-level effectiveness of the arable land requisition-compensation balance policy in mainland China in the last 20 years37
Patterns and drivers of recent agricultural land-use change in Southern Germany37
Protection of peri-urban open spaces at the level of regional policy-making: Examples from six European regions37
Predicting future urban growth scenarios and potential urban flood exposure using Artificial Neural Network-Markov Chain model in Miami Metropolitan Area36
Sustainable tourism and mobility development in natural protected areas: Evidence from Apulia36
How to make cities the home of people – a ‘soul and body’ analysis of urban attractiveness36
Farmers’ heterogeneous preferences towards results-based environmental policies36
Understanding farm-level cognition of and autonomous adaptation to climate variability and associated factors: Evidence from the rice-growing zone of Pakistan36
Effect of land tenure fragmentation on the decision-making and scale of agricultural land transfer in China36
Investigating the spatiotemporal pattern of urban vibrancy and its determinants: Spatial big data analyses in Beijing, China36
Mineral extraction in Swedish Sápmi: The regulatory gap between Sami rights and Sweden’s mining permitting practices36
Contribution of ecosystem services to rural livelihoods in a changing landscape: A case study from the Eastern Himalaya36
Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape35
Explaining objective forces, driving forces, and causal mechanisms affecting the formation and expansion of the peri-urban areas: A critical realism approach35
Exploring the coordination between physical space expansion and social space growth of China’s urban agglomerations based on hierarchical analysis35
Use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in frontier areas: A case study in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon35
Research on the collaborative governance of urban regeneration based on a Bayesian network: The case of Chongqing35
Conservation agriculture strengthen sustainability of Brazilian grain production and food security35
Agri-environmental schemes for biodiversity and environmental protection: How we are not yet “hitting the right keys”35
Women’s empowerment in agriculture and household food insecurity: Evidence from Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK), Pakistan35
Does Urban planning affect urban growth pattern? A case study of Shenzhen, China35
Adoption of interrelated sustainable agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Ghana35
Agent-Based Modeling for Urban Development Planning based on Human Needs. Conceptual Basis and Model Formulation35
An experience-based mining approach to supporting urban renewal mode decisions under a multi-stakeholder environment in China35
Spatial-temporal trade-offs of land multi-functionality and function zoning at finer township scale in the middle reaches of the Heihe River35
Quantification of the coupling relationship between ecological compensation and ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China35
Urban resilience in spatial planning of polish cities - True or false? Transformational perspective34
How do government policies promote greening? Evidence from China34
Good practice and lesson learned in promoting vetiver as solution for slope stabilisation and erosion control in Thailand34
Spatiotemporal effects of administrative division adjustment on urban expansion in China34
Land grabbing on Brazil's Highway BR-319 as a spearhead for Amazonian deforestation34
Village classification in metropolitan suburbs from the perspective of urban-rural integration and improvement strategies: A case study of Wuhan, central China34
Urban and rural destinations on Instagram: Exploring the influencers’ role in #sustainabletourism34
The conservation of cultural heritage in rural areas: Stakeholder preferences regarding historical rural buildings in Apulia, southern Italy34
Blockchain in real estate: Recent developments and empirical applications34
Can the performance evaluation change from central government suppress illegal land use in local governments? A new interpretation of Chinese decentralisation34
Urbanization path, housing price and land finance: International experience and China’s facts34
Government policies endanger the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon33
The endowment effect accompanying villagers' withdrawal from rural homesteads: Field evidence from Chengdu, China33
Bits and pieces: Forest fragmentation by linear intrusions in India33
Spatio-temporal pattern and driving mechanisms of cropland circulation in China33
Impact of land quota and land supply structure on China’s housing prices: Quasi-natural experiment based on land quota policy adjustment33
Narrating abandoned land: Perceptions of natural forest regrowth in Southwestern Europe33
Linking sustainable livelihoods with sustainable grassland use and conservation: A case study from rural households in a semi-arid grassland area, China32
A spatial land-use planning support system based on game theory32
Planning peri-urban areas at regional level: The experience of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna (Italy)32
Urban vertical profiles of three most urbanized Chinese cities and the spatial coupling with horizontal urban expansion32
Understanding rural resettlement paths under the increasing versus decreasing balance land use policy in China32
What really undermines public acceptance of wind turbines? A choice experiment analysis in Israel32
The value of public urban green spaces: Measuring the effects of proximity to and size of urban green spaces on housing market values in San José, Costa Rica32
Land use/cover change analysis in the Mediterranean region: a regional case study of forest evolution in Castelló (Spain) over 50 years32
The spatial pattern of agricultural ecosystem services from the production-living-ecology perspective: A case study of the Huaihai Economic Zone, China32
Farmland abandonment, public goods and the CAP in a marginal area of Italy32
Are agricultural sustainability and resilience complementary notions? Evidence from the North European agriculture31
Eco-districts and data-driven smart eco-cities: Emerging approaches to strategic planning by design and spatial scaling and evaluation by technology31
Assessing synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in forest landscape management31
Change in land use structure in urban China: Does the development of high-speed rail make a difference31
Trends in Aboriginal water ownership in New South Wales, Australia: The continuities between colonial and neoliberal forms of dispossession31
A succinct review and analysis of drivers and impacts of agricultural land transformations in Asia31
Meta-analysis of the relationship between high quality basic education resources and housing prices31
The impacts of Acacia decurrens plantations on livelihoods in rural Ethiopia31
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