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Greenery in times of crisis: Accessibility, residents' travel preferences and the impact of travel time Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Anita Kukulska-Kozieł, Tomasz Noszczyk, Julia Gorzelany, Wojciech Młocek
Urban green spaces (UGSs) played a pivotal role in easing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. It is, therefore, relevant to identify factors influencing why people choose specific UGSs. This paper aims to investigate the preferences of residents of Kraków (Poland) regarding the selection of UGSs in times of crisis. Distance or travel time from home are among the key factors affecting the
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Why is the eutrophication governance over the Lake of Baikal failing? Land use governance solutions need to account for barriers across sectors, scales, and actor groups Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Anton Shkaruba, Ruben Mnatsakanian, Irina Molodikova, Viktar Kireyeu, Kalev Sepp
In this study, we examined the failure of Russia’s environmental governance to prevent the nutrient load generated by littoral households and tourism businesses from reaching Lake Baikal. It is important to note that this failure has occurred even with sufficient implementation capacity and demonstrable political will to protect this body of water. This research inquiry into the ‘eutrophication governance’
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Refining the survey model of the LADM ISO 19152–2: Land registration Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Eftychia Kalogianni, Efi Dimopoulou, Hans-Christoph Gruler, Erik Stubkjær, Javier Morales, Christiaan Lemmen, Peter Van Oosterom
Cadastral surveying involves the delineation of property boundaries and the extent and documentation of easements and restrictions (imposed by private or public law), forming the foundation for Land Administration (LA). Survey models and processes constitute vital parts of Cadastres and Land Administration Systems (LASs). However, these models are often inadequately documented and lack standardization
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Pasture recovery, emissions, and the Brazilian Paris agreement commitments Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Giovani William Gianetti, Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho
This paper evaluates the socioeconomic, land use change, and greenhouse gases emissions impacts of degraded pastures recovery (DPR) in Brazil, assessing the contribution to the Brazilian Paris Agreement commitments. We used a Computable General Equilibrium model, TERM-BR15, in a scenario simulation for the period 2015–2035. The simulation includes DPR shocks of productivity, investments, and Soil Organic
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Land to the landless: Does the type of approach matter? Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Inoussa Boubacar, Gibson Nene
Uncertainty about land ownership is believed to increase vulnerability of marginalized groups in a society. When agriculture is not only responsible for employing more than half of the labor force population but also the main source of the livelihood of poor families, access to land becomes critical. This paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the impact of land reform on agricultural output in
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Convivial fences? Property, ‘right to wildlife’ and the need for redistributive justice in South African conservation Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Bram Büscher, Lerato Thakholi
In South Africa, fences are ubiquitous. From urban centers to rural landscapes, myriad fences divide properties, fortify estates, and protect private interests. In biodiversity conservation, likewise, fences are instrumental in legally assigning property rights over wildlife. They are furthermore deemed necessary to avoid human-wildlife conflict, save human and animal lives and, most of all, safeguard
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Vehicle electrification and fuel economy policies: Impacts on agricultural land-use in the United States Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 J, e, r, o, m, e, , D, u, m, o, r, t, i, e, r
In the United States (U.S.), decarbonization of the transportation sector has important implications for agriculture because approximately one-third of maize production is used for ethanol. For six major U.S. crops, the effects on commodity prices, county-level land allocation, and farm net returns of an increased battery electric vehicles (BEV) market share (including a phaseout of gasoline vehicles
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Tree plantation for implementing the land utilization policies incorporate with sustainable development towards environmental concerns in Assam, India Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 A, n, a, n, t, a, , K, u, m, a, r, , J, e, n, a
Environmental scientists have been considering the best use of natural resources in recent years, and in order to maintain sustainability, the government can no longer manage these resources alone without the support of the local people. The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of tree plantations in the hillsides and wasteland for addressing sustainable environmental considerations and providing
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Principles of just urban land use planning Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Hashem Dadashpoor, Afshin Sajadi
In contemporary cities, justice stands as a paramount concern, integral to their fabric and functionality. Just urban land use planning (JULUP) is one of the main topics in urban land use planning and tries to promote justice in cities through land use planning principles. Despite the abundance of JULUP studies, there is still a lack of comprehensive research that can review JULUP principles in an
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A European perspective on acceptability of innovative agri-environment-climate contract solutions Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 R. D'Alberto, S. Targetti, L. Schaller, F. Bartolini, T. Eichhorn, E. Haltia, K. Harmanny, F. Le Gloux, D. Nikolov, T. Runge, D. Vergamini, D. Viaggi
The agri-environment-climate measures of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy are incentives aiming to reduce negative environmental impacts and increase positive effects generated from agriculture. Several criticisms have been addressed to their efficiency and effectiveness and thus, the design of innovative contract solutions is currently suggested. Among the novel contractual solutions
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Finding the forgotten spaces: Using a social-ecological framework to map informal green space in Melbourne, Australia Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Hugh R. Stanford, Joe Hurley, Georgia E. Garrard, Holly Kirk
Informal green spaces (IGS) are the overlooked and unplanned green spaces in our cities. They have been shown provide a potentially important social and ecological green space asset through contributing to ecological habitat and connectivity, as well as green space accessibility for urban residents. Despite their potential value to urban social-ecological systems, IGS are often overlooked and forgotten
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From isolation to linkage: Holistic insights into ecological risk induced by land use change Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jianxiao Liu, Chaoxiang Wen, Zhewei Liu, Yue Yu
While landscape ecological risk assessment (LERA) has the potential to positively impact environmental concerns by informing land use policies, a holistic perspective has yet to be adopted in previous investigations of LERA in relation to land use change. To address this gap, our study introduces a novel research framework that applies landscape ecology principles and methodologies, utilizing the concept
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Land use footprints and policies in Brazil Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Rafael Parras, Gislaine Costa de Mendonça, Luis Miguel da Costa, Juan Ricardo Rocha, Renata Cristina Araújo Costa, Carlos Alberto Valera, Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes, Fernando António Leal Pacheco, Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra
Ecological footprints have been assessed widely from a resource production-consumption perspective but much less from a land use availability-demand standpoint. The later view is key to land use policy because it sheds light on the need of changing or adapting uses to get a balance between those of ecological (e.g., forests, riparian wetlands) and those of socioeconomic (e.g., cropland) value. Thus
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The legacy of partible inheritance on farmland fragmentation: Evidence from Austria Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Markus Gatterer, Heidi Leonhardt, Klaus Salhofer, Ulrich Morawetz
Partible inheritance is considered an important driver in the fragmentation of farmland use and ownership, but this lacks empirical evidence. We combine parcel-level data on land use and land ownership with historical information on inheritance traditions from Eastern Austria where partible and impartible inheritance coexisted. We use multiple regression analysis with coarsened exact matching to show
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The Greek model of urbanization Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Demetris Stathakis, Pavlos Baltas
For exactly one century Greece, in turbulent times and with a fragile economy, has aspired to articulate a land policy able to control urbanization and tilt the scales in favor of society, away from merely passively accommodating free market decisions. However, the analysis of available data shows that so far this quest has not been successful. Urbanization largely proceeded unimpeded. In the past
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Agrivoltaics and landscape change: First evidence from built cases in the Netherlands Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Igor Sirnik, Dirk Oudes, Sven Stremke
The need to advance energy transition has arisen from the global challenge of climate change. Shifts to renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, are crucial for reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change. The use of —the combination of food and renewable energy production with photovoltaic technology—is gaining scientific attention. Agrivoltaics is a type of multifunctional energy
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TIC-driven sustainable land use mode in the Loess Plateau: A case study of gully land consolidation project in Yan'an City, China Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Yanjun Guo, Yansui Liu, Ruotong Li, Yurui Li, Jieyong Wang
The Loess Plateau is one of the most severely eroded areas in the world. The complexity of the multiple challenges facing the Loess Plateau entails the support of scientific and systematic innovations in land use. Based on technological innovation cluster (TIC) theory, this paper develops a self-circulation structure model for the TIC to analyze the hierarchical structure of the land-use innovations
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‘Go-No-Go’: Anticommons and Inter-ministerial conflict in India’s Forest and Mineral Governance Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Priyanshu Gupta, Rajesh Bhattacharya
India’s forests, particularly in coal and other mineral-bearing regions, have been at the centre of many social and environmental conflicts. Such conflicts will likely remain salient over the next decade as India appears to be moving towards greater use of coal instead of transitioning away from it. The current governance architecture in mineral-bearing forested areas is characterized by fragmentation
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Land for urbanization: Shifting policies and variegated accumulation strategies in a fast-growing city in eastern India Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Dhiraj Barman, Subhanil Chowdhury
Land emerged as a critical element to understand India’s new urban transition and development-dispossession debate since it adopted the globalization policies in 1991. The land grab and land-based accumulation have been widely studied in leading cities in the backdrop of the neoliberal urban process. The relatively smaller, medium-sized cities contribute to comprehending this process’s sub-regional
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Ecological redline delineation based on the supply and demand of ecosystem services Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Huangwei Deng, Xuefei Zhou, Zhenliang Liao
As the bottom line of safeguarding ecological security, the term “ecological redline”, which was proposed in China, has important guidance and management value for maintaining ecological stability. The relationship between the supply and demand of ecosystem services (SDES) is a game between the supply side and the demand side of ecosystem services, reflecting the sustainability of ecosystem service
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Differentiation of urban-rural interface and its driving mechanism: A case study of Nanjing, China Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Hui Cao, Cheng Chen, Jianglong Chen, Weixuan Song, Jiang He, Chunhui Liu
The urbanrural interface is the frontier of urban expansion and rural development. Understanding the differentiation and driving mechanism of the urbanrural interface could help policy-makers mitigate negative impacts of development and promote integration through proper planning. Taking Nanjing as an example, this study provides new insights into the different types of urbanrural interfaces and what
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Why did the common objective be biased in the execution collaborative governance program? The case from Dayak Indonesia Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Anyualatha Haridison
This study uses a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software approach with the help of the NVivo v.12 software. The approach is used to obtain an overview of members’ views on the collaboration of customary land certification programs and factors determining failure in achieving a common objective process. In general, the findings show that collaboration programs fail, and members have a
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A global review of urban blue-green planning tools Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 A.Chathurika S. Perera, Peter J. Davies, Petra L. Graham
State, city and local governments use environmental planning policies to guide development outcomes. Their policies operate within an increasingly complex regulatory environment and have proliferated as they seek to address past, present, and emerging land use challenges and shifting socio-ecological expectations. The development of integrated urban water (blue) and biodiversity (green) policies represents
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What matters most in determining European farmers’ participation in agri-environmental measures? A systematic review of the quantitative literature Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Carolin Canessa, Amer Ait-Sidhoum, Sven Wunder, Johannes Sauer
Successful implementation of Europe’s agri-environmental policies faces various obstacles, several of which are closely linked to participation. Effectively increasing adoption of agri-environmental-climate measures (AECM) requires a deeper understanding of farmers’ motives. Various case-study research has targeted ex-post studies but offers context-specific recommendations. Earlier literature reviews
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Farmland afforestation: Forest optimal rotation ages across discrete optimisation objectives Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Cathal O’Donoghue, Eoin O’Fatharta, Cathal Geoghegan, Mary Ryan
Forestry is increasingly seen as having a multiplicity of functions, some of which may lead to tensions between the preferences of different forestry stakeholders. One expression of these differing preferences is in the area of optimal rotation length. This paper models the optimal rotation lengths of different aspects of the forestry system – the forest owner, the timber processor, the carbon sequestered
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Integrating the administrative spillover effect into the spatial governance system to revisit land development: A study in urban-rural fringe areas of Wuhan and neighboring cities, China Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Chen Zeng, Yizhen Yin, Luyu Guo, Chenlu Liu, Yang Zhang, Zhengxue Huang
Spatial governance on land development in the urban-rural fringe has raised increasing widespread concern for curbing urban sprawl and promoting rural revitalization. This study explores the heterogeneities of land development in the administrative ranking system and realizes the justification of the administrative spillover effect on land development at the township level, using urban-rural fringe
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Incorporating Adjacent Free Space (AFS) for marine spatial unit in 3D marine cadastre data model based on LADM Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Ainn Zamzuri, Muhammad Imzan Hassan, Alias Abdul Rahman
Rapid development and various needs to protect owners’ interests impose high demands on land management. Land policies (e.g., the National Land Code of 1965 for Peninsular Malaysia) support the growth of a country by defining the rights, requirements for accessibility, and owners of land properties among the parties that participate in municipal, state, and regional planning. The land policy, such
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A different dimension in deforestation and forest degradation: Non-forestry uses of forests in Turkey Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Erdoğan Atmiş, Damla Yıldız, Cihan Erdönmez
The Forest Law and Forest Regulations in Turkey have been amended frequently over the past 20 years to meet the increasing demands for non-forestry use of forest land. This led to a significant increase in the non-forestry use of forest areas and the share of these utilizations in all forest areas reached 3,5%. Since the General Directorate of Forest does not release detailed information about these
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Perception of green spaces' role in enhancing mental health and mental well-being in small and medium-sized cities Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 María Mar Delgado-Serrano, Katarína Melichová, Isotta Mac Fadden, Catalina Cruz-Piedrahita
Understanding the impact of green spaces on public health is crucial for urban planning and mental well-being enhancement in small and medium-sized cities (SMSCs). This study compares the influence of green spaces on mental well-being and psychological distress in Córdoba and Nitra. Using a cross-sectional survey, responses from 632 participants were collected and evenly distributed between the two
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“It doesn’t matter at all—we are family”: Titling and joint property rights in Myanmar Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Isabel Brigitte Lambrecht, Nang Lun Kham Synt, Hnin Ei Win, Kristi Mahrt, Khin Zin Win
Many policy makers and academics striving for more gender equality consider joint property rights as preferable over sole rights, since the latter often discriminate against women. Several governments in low-, middle- and high-income countries have therefore imposed joint rights through modifications of statutory law or mandatory joint property registration. We first discuss a general theoretical framework
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A novel system for boosting land productivity and income of smallholder farmers by intercropping vegetables in waterlogged paddy fields in the coastal zone of the Ganges Delta Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 M. Maniruzzaman, S.K. Sarangi, M. Mainuddin, J.C. Biswas, R.W. Bell, M.B. Hossain, P.L.C. Paul, Md.J. Kabir, S. Digar, S. Mandal, B. Maji, D. Burman, U.K. Mandal, K.K. Mahanta
In the coastal zone of the Ganges Delta, in the wet season (June to November), rice is the predominant crop due to extensive flooding, but the income is low and nutritional food security is compromised. To increase the income from waterlogged paddy land in the coastal zones of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, intercropping of climbing types vegetables such as bitter gourd, snake gourd, long yard
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Large-scale acquisitions of communal land in the Global South: Assessing the risks and formulating policy recommendations Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Jorge A. Rincón Barajas, Christoph Kubitza, Jann Lay
This article conceptualises and empirically assesses the socioeconomic and environmental risks of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for communal lands in the Global South. These risks include the displacement of local communities due to the insufficient formal recognition of communal land and exclusive and corrupt negotiations with investors who frequently exploit the legal pluralism inherent in
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Achieving the supply-demand balance of ecosystem services through zoning regulation based on land use thresholds Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Xiaoqing Zhao, Yifei Xu, Junwei Pu, Junyi Tao, Yanjun Chen, Pei Huang, Xinyu Shi, Yuju Ran, Zexian Gu
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Obstacles to local payments for ecosystem services schemes for water management at the catchment scale: A case study from Eastern Scotland Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 L. Kuhfuss, V. Burns, O. Shortall, A. Vinten
Water catchment management negotiates a complex landscape of local and expert knowledge, cultural and historical norms, property rights, and the pressures of environmental change. Various schemes have developed in recent years that aim to provide an integrated, consultative approach to environmental management, among which payment for ecosystem services (PES) has emerged as a successful example. Yet
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Urban agriculture in Brazil: Possibilities and challenges for Santarém, eastern Amazonia Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Thiago Almeida Vieira, Thomas Panagopoulos
Public policies implemented by the Brazilian government for the promotion of urban agriculture were examined. Urban agriculture contributes to combatting problems related to food security and environmental issues in cities. In Brazil, the Ministry of Social Development initiated the elaboration of a policy to support urban agriculture, having listened to different segments of society. Moreover, the
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The hidden impact of policy changes on remnant vegetation in Queensland, Australia Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Stephanie Hernandez, Vanessa M. Adams, Stephanie Duce
Habitat loss is a key driver of species extinction, demanding effective policies to regulate land clearing and mitigate this threat. This study examines the impact of policy changes on the availability of vegetation for clearing in Queensland, Australia, focusing on three policy variants from 2012, 2015, and 2019. Our analysis highlights significant shifts in remnant vegetation availability. In 2015
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Social-ecological network of peri-urban forest in urban expansion: A case study of urban agglomeration in Guanzhong Plain, China Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Guoyu Wang, Jing Li, Xianfeng Liu, Boyan Li, Ya Zhang
Socio-ecological networks maintain reciprocal interactions between nature and society. As a result of these interactions key abundant ecological resources and ecosystem services for society emerge. Urban expansion is a direct driver of peri-urban forest change and cause shifts in socio-ecological relationships. However, to date there has not been an attempt to analyze resource management alongside
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Estimating supply-demand mismatches for optimization of sustainable land use planning in a rapidly growing urban agglomeration (India) Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Manob Das, Arijit Das, Selim Saikh
Assessment supply-demand mismatches of ecosystem services (ES) have become a core research field in recent decades. Rapid urban growth with intense human interference is the main cause of huge damage to ecological structures and functions in cities. The study aims to assess the supply-demand capacity of the landscape based on the land use and land cover (LULC) matrix approach in Raiganj Urban Agglomeration
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The role of forest user group membership in the extraction of teak forest resources for smallholder cattle farming Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Eko Nugroho, Rico Ihle, Wim Heijman, Simon J. Oosting
Sustainable forest management in South-East Asia is challenged by smallholder livestock husbandry as farmers supplement insufficient on-farm forage with resources extracted from forests. This study assesses which determinants affect forest resource extraction by investigating teak forest usage by Indonesian cattle farmers. Based on a survey of 600 smallholders, we provide an overview of which resources
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Who should deliver agri-environmental public goods in the UK? New land managers and their future role as public good providers Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Hermann Kam, Clive Potter
Agri-environmental policies in the UK stand on the threshold of significant change, with wide acceptance that radical changes are needed to ensure a better delivery of public goods in future. The UK’s departure from the EU presents an opportunity to fully realise the “Public Money for Public Goods” principle in the new suite of Environmental Land Management schemes. A likely priority will be the delivery
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Exploring the human-nature nexus towards effective nature-based solutions: the Aral Sea case Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Shahzoda Alikhanova, Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, Joseph William Bull
Incorporating societal challenges and values into the design of locally appropriate nature-based solutions (NbS) is an integral strategy for ensuring benefits for both communities and the environment. But how are human-nature relations impacted when the environments containing resources which are valued and relied on, undergo dramatic and sustained change on decadal timescales? To explore this interplay
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Unraveling the complexity of land use change and path dependency in agri-environmental schemes for small farmers: A serious game approach Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Yair Asael Alpuche Álvarez, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Daniel Müller, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Sun Zhanli
This study investigates how Maya farmers in Mexico respond to agri-environmental subsidies aimed at promoting sustainable land use decisions. We do so through a serious games approach, using a tailor-designed board game to identify the land use behaviors of Maya farmers. The game simulated three different subsidy programs promoting mechanized agriculture, forest conservation, and agroforestry. We find
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Does joint land ownership empower rural women socio-economically? Evidence from Eastern Nepal Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Puspa Raj Ghimire, Niranjan Devkota, Tek Marasini, Ghanashyan Khanal, Jagat Deuja, Umesh Khadka
Joint Land Ownership (JLO) is increasingly important for empowering women and improving their socioeconomic well-being. However, there is a lack of empirical research on this topic. Utilizing panel data from 2015 to 2020 and employing the Binary Logit Model, this study examines the socioeconomic and empowerment status of rural women who have JLO in the Sunsari district of Nepal. Particularly, we used
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Does ecologization matter for technical efficiency in crop production? A case of Swedish agriculture Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Wei Huang, Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Helena Hansson
The effect of ecologisation on crop production performance in Sweden, measured as technical efficiency, was investigated by incorporating ecologisation into the production function and technical inefficiency determinant model. An unbalanced panel of data from the Swedish Farm Accounting Data Network (FADN), comprising 1944 observations on 346 crop farms 2009–2019, was used in stochastic frontier analysis
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Sustainable land use: Policy implications of systematic land regularization in Mozambique Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 João Carrilho, Gustavo Dgedge, Pedro Manuel Pinto dos Santos, Jorge Trindade
Security of land tenure is key to achieve the sustainable development goal of eradicating poverty and can be improved through the regularization of rights to land, property, and natural resources. Making cities and human settlements sustainable, requires participatory and integrated land use planning, accounting for the land’s potential and constraints, with a view to medium and long-term use. The
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Empowerment and disempowerment in community-based natural resource management: Examining CREMA outcomes in Ghana Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Samuel M. Mawutor, Reem Hajjar
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) schemes are intended to achieve social and environmental outcomes, although many cases around the world show that CBNRM schemes are achieving more on their environmental goals rather than their social ones. In this paper, we examined the outcomes of Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Ghana using Scheyven’s four-dimension framework of
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What drives densification and sprawl in cities? A spatially explicit assessment for Vienna, between 1984 and 2018 Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Anna-Katharina Brenner, Willi Haas, Tobias Krüger, Sarah Matej, Helmut Haberl, Franz Schug, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Martin Behnisch, Jochen A.G. Jaeger, Melanie Pichler
The spatial arrangement of settlements constitutes a long-lasting legacy and shapes the prospects for transformations toward sustainability. Thus, understanding the drivers of changes in settlement patterns is essential. In this article, we present a spatially explicit, geostatistical analysis of settlement dynamics, and a qualitative investigation of its regulative, demographic, and economic drivers
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Terrorism and land use in agriculture: A response to a replication attempt and additional insights on replication guidelines Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Adesoji Adelaja, Justin George
Replication studies are intended to enhance confidence in research findings by ground-truthing previous studies and/or fact-checking their errors. Drawing on existing literature, this study reiterates guidelines to ensure sound and value-adding replication efforts, including (1) using appropriate data-management processes, (2) an accurate and error-free replication attempt, and (3) clear understanding
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An analysis of coastal sand dune management in Oregon (United States) from the 19th to the 21st century Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 D.M.R. Sampath, J.G. Freitas, J.A. Dias
The Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework was employed to understand the land use policies developed to manage coastal sand dunes and their consequences in Oregon, United States of America, during two contrasting periods: from the 19th to the late 20th century and from there to the early 21st century. A combination of historical data and scientific literature was used for this study
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Maximizing impact: The power of combining land tenure formalization and productive social safety nets programmes in Tanzania Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Haji Athumani Msangi, Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula, Betty Waized
While standard economic theory considers formal property rights as vital for agricultural productivity and economic prosperity, its potential can be limited by absence of important complementary factors necessary for the mechanism to operate. This study sheds some light on complementarities between Land Tenure Formalization (LTF) and Productive Social Safety Nets (PSSN) programmes in Tanzania. Using
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Security of land tenure: A comparative analysis among sub-ethnic groups in rural communities of Oyo State, Nigeria Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Gbenga John Oladehinde, Lasun Mykail Olayiwola, Kehinde Olayinka Popoola
Security of land tenure is widely believed to contribute to rural development. However, few studies have compared the issues as well as the drivers of security of land tenure among rural areas of different sub-ethnic groups in rural communities of Oyo State, Nigeria. This study compared the security of land tenure among sub-ethnic groups in rural communities of the study area. A multistage sampling
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Agro–economic determinants of violations of protected areas in Western Africa Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Marco Rogna
Despite protected areas are a useful instrument for preserving locations with a high natural value, violations are frequent, endangering their primary scope. Encroachment, the use of land inside protected areas for agricultural purposes, is a common violation. The present paper investigates the determinants of encroachment in eight Western African countries, with a broad coverage rarely seen in previous
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An exploration of the relationship between land governance and development through a systematic review of interventions Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Vitor Bukvar Fernandes, Bastiaan Philip Reydon
The importance of land governance to economic development is a theme that usually receives less attention than it is due in academic production. Land, being a physically limited resource, is increasingly under pressure by the expanding world population and climate change and, thus, an constitutes an important subject of inquiry for academics and policymakers. In this paper we investigate the relationship
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Recasting tenure and labour in non-equilibrium environments: Making the case for “high-reliability” pastoral institutions Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Linda Pappagallo
This paper explores how pastoralists collectively manage resources in contexts of high environmental variability in the drylands of southern Tunisia. The khlata, the practice of pooling herds, allows for livestock owners to manage scarce resources in environments characterized by non-equilibrium dynamics. This institution legitimizes access to a wider range of pasture land thus tracking patchy rainfall
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Can ecological compensation based on the transfer of development rights (TDR) improve ecosystem service value? A multi-scenario simulation Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Xin Nie, Xiaojuan Li, Chengyu Lyu, Yanglan Su, Han Wang
The contradiction between economic development and environmental protection is becoming increasingly serious, and innovative ecological compensation policy is a key measure to solve this problem. The impact of the transfer of development rights (TDR) as an emerging ecological compensation model on the ecological environment is controversial, and there is a lack of empirical studies on this issue. Therefore
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Land use planning to minimize the export of phosphorus: An optimization model for dairy production at a catchment area scale Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Andrés Castagna, Federico Matonte, Antonio Mauttone, Lorena Rodríguez-Gallego, Oscar Blumetto
The intensification of activities in the Santa Lucia River basin in Uruguay has resulted in an increase in the concentration of nutrients in surface waters with the consequent acceleration of the eutrophication. Dairy production, of great relevance in the area, needs to increase production to ensure the economic viability of the activity. In this context, it is necessary to find solutions that address
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Analyzing determinants of long-rotation plantation decisions by local households in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam with Bayesian Networks Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Hai Dinh Le, Tran Thi Mai Anh, Vo Thi Hai Hien, Luu Thi Van, Ngo Thi Mai
Vietnam is one of the most dynamic furniture industries in the world. However, the domestic raw wood is struggling to meet the demands of the booming furniture industry in quantity and quality. Long-rotation plantations are expected to be a potential solution to improve local livelihoods and mitigate climate change impacts. In this study, we used binary logistic regression to analyze four groups of
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Community forestry in a changing context: A perspective from Nepal’s mid-hill Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Hari Krishna Laudari, Lok Mani Sapkota, Tek Maraseni, Poorneswor Subedi, Shiva Pariyar, Tika Raj Kaini, Shyam Babu Lopchan, Christopher Weston, Luba Volkova
Community forestry (CF) is one of the major forest management modalities in the world. A growing body of literature documents various outcomes and interactions of people with CF, but limited studies have assessed the mode of forest-people interaction considering changing socio-economic and environmental contexts by employing a broader theoretical framework. Our study employed Ostrom’s social-ecological