Adaptation Pathways is a decision support tool designed to create adaptation policies under different climate change scenarios. This tool has been used successfully in several sectors and contexts such as coastal and river adaptation, urban heat waves, floods and rural livelihoods but its use in natural resource management, has faced several challenges and limitations. In the sector of agroforestry

Whereas the exploration of urban expansion only from the horizontal perspective cannot accurately reflect the real situation, vertical expansion studies can fully understand the characteristics and rules for urban expansion. Understanding how the urban built-up density based on the vertical expansion differs across cities and varies among regions over time is important for enriching the research on

The choice of locating a retail store in a given area is among the most important decisions that retailers have to make for the long term success of their business. A good location allows for easy access, attracts customers and increases sales. This paper proposes an ex-ante analysis by measuring retailers’ perceptions with respect to the inauguration of new metro stations. Main findings show that

Recognizing the potential interactions and synergies between adaptation and mitigation in land-use policies in general and forest policies in particular, research on climate change policy has increasingly focused on integrating both objectives simultaneously (hereafter “interaction model”). However, while support exists for the integration of adaptation and mitigation, very few policies have successfully

Completeness in land registration and efficiency in land-information services have emerged as global prerequisites to achieve sustainable development goals (SDG) and ease of doing business (EoDB). Land registration is a national priority for Indonesia, which aims to complete the process for all unregistered land parcels in the country and validate the quality of previously registered and certified

This paper looks at the (re)shaping of local institutional arrangements within the context of land use planning processes in Laos, bringing to light their dynamic and co-constitutive relationship. Taking Pa Khom village in Houaphan province as a case study, it examines how local tenure institutions are (re)produced, (re)assembled and adapted to mirror farmer’s livelihood strategies to meet households’

Royalties from Financial Compensation for Mineral Resources Exploitation (CFEM) aim to mitigate negative impacts on mining regions. Legislation does not specify how the resources should be applied. The objective of this study was to link CFEM distribution and environmental variables to the mining municipalities of Minas Gerais State, Brazil, and to verify if these resources help mitigating negative

In order to be able to guarantee the overall correctness of data, updating of Land administration system’s data must be executed following a formally and technically clearly defined and controllable procedure (process). In general technical sense, correctness of data primarily depends on its consistency. Databases natively support enforcing consistency of transactions over the data but lack the flexibility

Spatial data in a Land Administration (LA) establish a fundamental geospatial data theme (see UN GGIM, 2018) and the integrated geospatial information framework for any Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Domain-specific standards, an integral component of the SDI, play an essential role to represent the semantics of domains, specify links between distributed registries and databases, and stimulate

Sea-level rise and related risks are an aspect of climate change that deeply affects coastal areas worldwide and calls for adaptive responses. Spatial planning is one key to adaptation, in particular at local level, where coastal risks might be experienced and solutions need to be developed. However, local spatial planning is a complex process involving various governance levels and decision-makers

This paper describes the measures adopted by Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna (two Italian regions) for planning their peri-urban areas at regional level. Peri-urban territories merge urban and rural features and extend beyond the municipal administrative boundaries. This prevents their precise delimitation, as well as the adoption of municipal plans for their governance that are coherent with their spatial

Small farmers’ adoption of a production system that allows good insertion and competitiveness in the market has always been a challenge. The conventional system, linked to the green revolution, is influenced by scale and financial capacity and is responsible for many environmental problems. To resolve these issues, the Brazilian government has implemented several policies to encourage organic agriculture

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana’s urban land use planning is fraught with complex socio-cultural, economic and political factors. Till date, land use planning remains a key challenge for managing urban growth and city governance. The complexities involved in land use planning in most developing countries and Ghana in particular, have been attributed to the dual system of land management

New governance strategies, mostly based on certification, emerged as a response to the severe environmental impacts oil palm has had across the globe. Following a political ecology approach, this article argues that dominant understandings of nature–society relations informing palm oil governance limit efforts to prevent and mitigate such impacts. This study analyses oil palm dispersal into protected

The present paper combines the classification of hedgerows in relation to surface soil moisture with the consideration of drivers of change (environmental, demographic, and policy) affecting the areal extent of hedgerow land cover in central Spain. These landscapes have a high cultural significance and functionality that needs to be preserved and improved. The hedgerow network of a continental Mediterranean

Rural tourism has been the leading alternative livelihood of farmers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in recent years. However, the trade-off between agricultural production and rural tourism has been gradually serious. Therefore, we selected the Zhagana Village, an example of rural tourism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to discuss the agricultural production under rural tourism from smallholder farmers'

As cities across the country face mounting pressures to address the housing affordability crisis, planners and policymakers have increasingly eyed upzonings as an instrument to alleviate rising housing costs. Yet, upzonings have emerged as a site of deep conflict, driving a wedge between groups advocating for supply-side solutions and those calling for added tenant protections and affordable housing

The concept of agroforestry is heralded by decades of research and development investments. However, across the Southern African region, the results of implementing agroforestry have been underwhelming as very few people are adopting the available innovations. There is a growing assertion that targeted policies and institutions will be key in addressing this adoption gap. The success of agroforestry

Forests around the world are experiencing the cumulative effects of rapid social and environmental change. Building resilience in the forestry sector has thus become of major importance in many countries, including Canada. While British Columbia (BC) generates the highest revenue from the forestry sector in Canada, the planning and management of forests in this province face several limitations that

Within the European Union, there is currently a vivid debate about the European Green Deal with its Farm to Fork Strategy and the related future design of the Common Agricultural Policy post 2020. This paper contributes to this debate by providing a clustering of German farmers analysing objective data (N = 812) using Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) as a crucial pre-requisite for an effective design

Against the backdrop of city-regionalization of Chinese urban jurisdictions, both the integration of urban-rural land-use and the conservation of arable land resources are under unprecedented challenges. It calls for intensive and systematic intercity cooperation. To understand the intercity cooperation’s features and mechanisms, this article formulates a three-pronged conceptual framework composed

Urban renewal has become an essential part of the ongoing urban development in China. This study provides a citywide analysis on the spatial determinants of land redevelopment activities in the urban renewal processes in Shenzhen, China. Based on the concept of rent gap and a perspective of transaction costs, a conceptual framework is developed to understand land redevelopment behaviors and analyze

In recent years, Turkey has experienced a drastic increase in transnational migration, especially from Middle Eastern countries, and consequently, there has been a significant rise in foreign demand for Turkish property. After the 2000s, new arrangements in the Land Registry Law eased the acquisition of the real estate by foreigners, and the ensuing rise in demand for real estate had a significant

Our study explores public strategies for planning professional sport facilities, proposing a conceptual framework that distinguishes the scale of the planned facility and the scope of the land-use plan. Based on interviews, planning documents, site visits, aerial images and building permits we compare plans and their implementation in five Israeli cities, identifying two approaches: a business approach

Existing theorization of the processes of urban transformation in different world regions has been based upon diverse interpretations of the interplay between the state and market forces. Studies of the growth and transformation of Chinese cities are characterized by continuing debates between those who insisted on the pivotal role played by the Chinese Party-state and others who envisioned urban China

This work proposes a holistic landscape assessment methodology, with novel and practical tools, which can support sustainable landscape development for small islands. The Greek island of Gavdos is the case study. An Islandscape character assessment was developed and applied, through a series of maps, extensive data collection and field work visits. A participatory spatial SWOT analysis enabled stakeholders

In recent years, China's agricultural land has decreased year by year. In order to alleviate the shortage of land and improve the efficiency of land use, the state has successively issued a number of relevant policies to encourage the transfer of agricultural land management rights. In this context, based on the data of 30 provinces from 2000 to 2017, this paper uses the global data envelopment method

Accurate land use mapping in the Amazon is crucial to support the implementation of environmental policies. The new Brazilian Forest Code published in 2012 defines a “consolidated rural area” (CRA) as an area within a rural property and occupied by humans prior to July 22, 2008. Environmental infractions that occurred before that date are granted amnesty and landowners are exempted from the obligation

The main objective of this study was to characterize the spatial structure of periurban agriculture for the purpose of operational urban development, avoiding the use of cumbersome and costly surveys when the public action sphere is extended to a region or a country. On the basis of Partial Least Squares-Path Modeling (PLS-PM), the approach developed here uses data freely available in France and makes

China’s increasing versus decreasing balance (IDB) land-use policy provides an opportunity for easing the contradiction between urban and rural land use within a strict land use planning framework. This paper reviews the evolution of the IDB policy in terms of changes in transfer scope and objectives. Taking the resettlement site and resettlement targets as classification criteria, the rural resettlement

Accessibility to the job market and public facilities in the urban fringe and surrounding rural areas is a vital issue in relation to sustainable land use in large cities. Urban-rural integration initiatives have been addressed in China’s land use planning in order to reduce the gap in the quality of life between the urban and rural population. This paper aims to examine urban-rural integration initiatives

Differences-in-Differences (DID) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are adopted to investigate the realistic and potential effects of construction land reduction on sustainable economic development. It is found that in the short term, construction land reduction will have negative effects on the labor market of the regional economy. While significantly reducing pollutant emission intensity, this

In light of the importance of religious-tourism metropolises (RTMs), and the lack of research about the residential buildings sustainability (RBS) of these cities, the study aims to identify the dimensions of RBS that have received less attention in previous studies and examine both the level of RBS and the correlation between less noticeable sustainable dimensions in a case of the Region-one of Mashhad

The process of urbanization leads to an increase in land surface temperature (LST). In this study, a spatial autocorrelation regression model was used to conduct empirical research on 338 cities in China to quantify the relationships between urban growth pattern (UGP) and LST in 2015 at both the patch and city scales. The investigated Chinese cities were assigned to four temperature zones, and reasonable

This paper, using Ireland as a case study, examines the relationship between rural economic activities and river water quality. The stipulation from the EU water framework directive (WFD) that all surface waters in the EU must be of ‘good ecological status’ necessitates a quantitative understanding of the major determinants of water quality. Within this context, this paper combines a number of spatial

The assisted migration (AM) of trees is increasingly being proposed and trialed to adapt forest management to the impacts of climate change. While institutional and risk perception dimensions of AM are increasingly well-studied, a key gap that remains is to understand how current institutional practices shape the types of knowledge that are considered in AM policy development, and how this in turn

COVID-19 is a humanitarian challenge that puts a spotlight on the need to understand the new provocations and how to prevent the escalation of different types of conflict. The present contribution gravitates around three major problems – foreign land grab, COVID-19 pandemic, and xenophobia. To the authors’ best knowledge, this is the first study that investigates how COVID-19 has influenced the xenophobia

High Speed Rail (HSR) in Spain began in 1992 and curently has a network of about 3400 km. In this 25-year period, accessibility has progressively increased, and its spatial distribution has changed throughout the territory. This has had important implications for territorial cohesion, which is a strategic planning objective of transport infrastructures in the European Union. However, this increase

Farmers as volunteers in research could potentially provide a rich resource for exploring sustainable agricultural research questions. To discern emerging patterns in citizen science-based studies on topics with relevance for sustainable agriculture and reveal salient challenges and opportunities for conducting such studies, we conducted a literature review of 27 articles from the period 2004–2019

Planning reforms have been advanced under the premise that streamlining planning will expedite development and growth, arguing that regulatory planning is a binding constraint on development. Yet, the veracity of this premise has not been substantiated empirically. In this study we analyze the effects of two reforms that were advanced under this premise in Israel during the last decade: a supra-commission

Land finance has played an essential role in China’s fiscal system, and the use of such in the future will impact the development of the industry. Introducing the terms land transfer-centered (LTC) mode and land investment-centered (LIC) mode, for land finance, this study aims to understand the relationship between land finance and industrial structure change by incorporating spatial factors. Using

The adoption of agricultural innovations is a critical adaptation mechanism for smallholder farmers to prepare and deal with potential shocks and uncertainty. Agroforestry is proven to be highly impactful at improving the adaptive capacity of farmers, the resilience of local farming systems and in providing diversified livelihood benefits. The adoption of agroforestry in Tanzania is generally uneven

Public real estate asset development is at the core of the agenda for both the Italian central government and local administrators. In many areas of the country, public real assets have changed their role and their function: public property represents no longer just a reserve of financial value and has become a resource for grass-roots social, cultural and entrepreneurial regeneration processes. The

Land degradation is a global issue that affects the livelihood of billions of people worldwide. Various responses have emerged to achieve the land degradation neutrality target, including the UN one billion tree campaign and Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Ant Forest, a land restoration approach initiated by China's largest Fintech company Alibaba, has made substantial progress on land restoration

There is increased interest in a carbon tax in the United States (U.S.) and policy makers, farmers, and other stakeholders need to understand the various economic and environmental aspects of such a policy on agriculture. A global agricultural simulation model assesses changes in production, commodity prices, and trade resulting from a U.S. carbon tax. In addition, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from

Rapid urbanisation in China leads to a dramatic urban expansion and farmland-to-construction land conversion. Aiming to address the tough issue of preserving farmland for food security while providing space for urban development, the central government proposed an innovative top-down land use policy termed “Link the increase in urban construction land with the decrease in rural construction land” (The

The spatial dimension of property is underexamined in the planning literature. Above all, and surprisingly, this dimension is underestimated in the debate on complex self-organising cities. However, if we consider the importance of action in and for urban self-organisation, property cannot but be an aspect indispensable for understanding the propensity of cities to grow (more or less) spontaneously

Sahelian landscapes have gone through rapid changes over the past decades under high pressure from an ever-growing population, climate hazards and land degradation. Understanding drivers of change and forecasting LULC dynamics in time and space are critical for sustainable land management. This research aimed at analyzing LULC patterns and forecasting future changes in the landscape at the watershed

Land laws provide a legal basis for addressing a country’s land-related strategies and are the central land policy instruments through which governments realise land policy objectives. Considering their vital role, it is imperative that land laws be evaluated to ensure that policy objectives are followed and that the laws are not ineffective or counterproductive. The extant literature, however, provides

We examine the role of adopting environmentally-friendly agricultural technologies on the technical efficiency (TE) among maize farmers in the mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam. While technology adoption is non-randomly assigned to farmers, we draw on recent advances of machine learning models to identify farm adoption profiles of multiple agricultural technologies. Combining the stochastic production

Socio-economic and technological drivers will strongly shape the future of the global timber market, forest area and climate change mitigation potential, however impacts could vary widely across several plausible futures. This paper illustrates how Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) can be applied to forest sector modelling using a method that translates qualitative narratives into quantitative parameters

This paper fills the gap in rich housing literature by testing the spatio-temporal stability of real estate submarkets. We start with standard Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) estimation of the hedonic model on point data, and we cluster model coefficients to detect housing submarkets. We check spatio-temporal stability - we add novelty by comparing if clusters move over space or stay in the

The conventional wisdom that compact city fosters quality of place (QoP) has been contested in the literature, leaving the nexus between urban expansion and QoP something of a black-box. This paper investigates the magnitude of additional QoP achievements derived from increasing compactness for 362 Chinese cities. We propose that an expansion consists of a fundamental part (FLE) in consistency with

Farmers in the riverine char islands of Bangladesh are frequently affected by climate change due to their proximity to the river and heavy reliance on agriculture for their livelihoods. The present study evaluates char dwellers’ risk perceptions and agricultural adaptations to climate change. Survey data were collected from 98 households, and focus group discussions were conducted using a semi-structured

Extensive studies have shown that stormwater yield and quality in a city are heavily influenced by its land uses and land covers (LULC). However, the majority of these studies have been done at the major watershed levels using remote sensing data with only a few urban LULC types and at lower resolutions. This empirical study uses the City of Corvallis, Oregon in the U.S. as a case to establish robust

Low-density residential development in rural areas is an important land use trend in many parts of the world, and has disproportionate ecological impacts due to its large footprint relative to population. It is widely suggested that this type of land use change is driven in part by natural amenities, raising the concern that locations of high natural value are most rapid to develop. We examine the

The study presented herein focuses on determining the relationship between changes in the scale of economic losses between 1990–2018 which occurred in areas of high (10 %) and medium (1%) probability of flood occurrence as well as flood hazard areas due to the destruction of a stopbank, and changes in legislation affecting the spatial development of such areas within the said period. The analysis of

Competing coalitions can stabilise policymaking and hinder policy changes that are required to address the mounting pressures on land use systems across the globe. Thus, understanding the driving forces of coalition formation is important. This paper builds on the Advocacy Coalition Framework to determine the relative contributions of two sets of beliefs (more general policy core beliefs and more specific