This study aims to explore how Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are perceived by the young generations, and to see if NBS are capable of attracting young visitors to a specific area. Young generations are generally considered as being more sensitive towards nature and sustainability issues. In this context, planning and developing NBS may prove to be a powerful instrument to raise the interest of young

Well-designed urban planning policy can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to anticipated climate change impacts. However, there has been limited analysis of the extent to which urban planning policy documents addresses climate change adaptation and or mitigation. There is a need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, and to

Informal subdivisions and manufactured home communities make up a substantial share of the United States’ housing stock but receive relatively little attention in the scholarly literature. The time-intensive nature of identifying these often-invisible communities through the analysis of satellite imagery and property records limits their systematic study. What research does exist on these communities

Livestock production is under increasing scrutiny regarding its impacts on the environment and its wider role in climate change. Consequently, there are a growing number of private agri-environmental schemes (AES) now operating alongside public AES that offer farmers economic rewards to maintain and enhance the environment. This study focused exclusively on a small number of commercial dairy producers

The paper proposes and estimates an urban growth model to look at the evolution of the cities of the United States of America from 1790 to 2010. The two questions explored are, first, are there permanent territorial factors that influence the relative size of cities and, second, what role do urban development policies play? To answer these questions, the paper presents a formulation of a city growth

The study aims to identify the influencing factors and their impact level on the public agricultural land management. The results show that the policy group is the most influential with an impact level of 38.06 %, followed by the financial group with an impact level of 36.17 %, the management factor with an impact level of 25.77 %. In order to improve the efficiency of the management of public agricultural

Compared to conventional tillage-based crop production, grass-based agriculture can support substantially more ecosystem benefits. Moreover, management intensive grazing (MIG) has the capacity to enhance grassland resilience, thereby enhancing the profitability of grass-based agriculture. The research reported here is based on a survey of 4,500 producers in the Great Plains of USA, which aimed to study

This paper examines the Urban Construction Investment Bond (UCIB) as a tradable product in the financial market and a financial tool for local government in China. The development of this financial product is contextualised in infrastructure finance and local government debt. The creation of UCIB helps finance infrastructure investment and potentially reveal the relative risks through the secondary

Salinization is a major global issue due to its adverse impact on agricultural productivity and sustainability. A substantial part of the coastal region of Bangladesh is affected by different magnitudes of salinity. Therefore, maintaining sustainable agricultural production is a major emphasis for policymakers. The objective of this study was to assess the salinity tolerance threshold for Boro season

Serious attention should be given to the low adoption rates of what appears to be relatively simple sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) that have the potential to protect the environment, enrich soil nutrients, restrict the depletion of essential ecosystem resources and increase farm productivity. Using primary data from 320 sampled agricultural households in two districts of Northern Ghana,

The continuous reduction of farmland poses a serious threat to national food security. Delineating essential basic farmland for special protection is urgently needed in China and is an important measure to stabilize food production capacity and ensure regional food security. Currently, research on basic farmland delineation is mostly based on the evaluation of the characteristics of the farmland and

Although still at incipient stages in most areas, agricultural land markets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are growing rapidly. While the literature on the region’s land markets is expanding, there has been little attention thus far paid to the drivers of land rental prices. We know quite little about whether and how land markets and land contracts respond to meso-scale factors such as spatial variations

Administrative division adjustment (ADA), as an important policy tool for spatial management, has a far-reaching impact on China's urban expansion. However, research in this aspect remains largely unknown. Using the urban expansion about 337 cities above county level in China from 2013 to 2017 as study cases, this research aims to fill this gap. Spatial statistical methods, named the geographical detector

The European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has failed to achieve its aim of preserving European farmland biodiversity, despite massive investment in subsidies to incentivise environmentally-beneficial farming practices. This failure calls into question the design of the subsidy schemes, which are intended to either function as a safety net and make farming profitable or compensate farmers

The disorderly growth of metropolitan regions, combined with the lack of efficient air quality management strategies, contributes to the potential increase in O3. That impact might undoubtedly cause harmful and immediate and continuous effects on living organisms. In this sense, the primary objective of this research work is to identify and evaluate the threshold values of the O3 concentration pattern

Land circulation is the transfer of land management rights without change of contracting and ownership rights. This is an effective solution for alleviating land fragmentation, facilitating the transfer of surplus rural labor, and improving rural income. Based on the provincial-level survey data from the Ministry of Agriculture of China, this study analyzes the spatio-temporal pattern of cropland circulation

Understanding the dynamic of land use/land cover (LULC) can assist relevant authorities in implementing them along with management options for natural forests like Desa’a forest in Northern Ethiopia. It is worth mentioning that no comprehensive study has been done so far on the overall change of LULC within the surrounding of Desa’a forest areas. This study aimed at analyzing the LULC changes and driving

Virtual land use refers to the area of land used to produce a unit food commodity that is traded. The role of virtual land use in future food security under conditions of land scarcity has received little policy and research attention, partly due to the constraints of complex modeling and data requirements. This study demonstrates a simple food balance approach to estimate virtual land use under projected

The hollowing of traditional villages not only causes the waste of land resources, loss of population, aging and weakening of rural population, and the decline of rural industries, but also threatens the protection of tangible cultural heritage and traditional folklore. Taking the case of Dongcun Village, a traditional village in Jinting town in Suzhou, this paper measures the degree of hollowing from

Participatory water governance has become highly influential around the world as a means for managing water resources. Scholars and practitioners advocate for the inclusion of previously marginalized communities in water resources management through the devolution of power, responsibility, and participation. Where community institutions are weak or missing, experts recommend strengthening or re-building

We estimate a meta-regression of the willingness to pay (WTP) for green spaces in European urban and peri-urban areas obtained from contingent valuation (CV) studies to construct a benefit transfer (BT) function. Compared to previous studies that estimated meta-regression for urban green spaces, we introduce two main novelties. Firstly, we focus exclusively on Europe to reduce the heterogeneity due

The recent wave of large scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in low-income countries has engendered intense debate partly because of its impact on livelihoods and ecology, with outcomes structured by complex unequal power relations at multiple scales. Together with the onslaught of climate change on livelihoods, LSLA is contributing to new, and exacerbating old vulnerabilities in ways that raise important

High-speed rail (HSR) and land market has become a hot issue, however, the effects and impact mechanisms of HSR have been little studied. Our study examines the impacts of HSR on the land price, based on China’s land transaction data. We estimate the effect of HSR employing a difference-in-difference approach. We find that HSR has positive effects on land prices. The impacts are larger during the construction

With the purpose of identifying relevant factors potentially affecting the implementation of Colombian agrarian reform in its post-conflict phase, this article explores the links between agrarian reform and internal armed conflict in four countries that underwent a similar process. Namely, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and South Africa. Looking for similarities and differences in the implementation

Vegetable oil market is becoming of increasing interest in the global biofuel industry. This phenomenon has also interested the European Union (EU), where the growing expansion of biofuel production is affected by political interventions promoting fuel security and environmental goals. Yet, empirical evidence on the impacts that changes in price of one commodity may have on the supply of another commodity

An analysis of the dynamics of access to resources is important for a fuller understanding of rural livelihoods especially with changing times and technology. This paper uses benefits from charcoal production and trade in the forest savanna transition zone of Ghana as a case to explore the dynamics of access in time and space and the mechanisms various social actors apply in order to benefit. The study

Continuous soil erosion if unchecked would have adverse consequences on agricultural productivity. Of the many soil conservation measures in place to address this issue, those that are large-scale can not only limit soil erosion but also restore soil cover. In the Teesta River Watershed in Darjeeling district in the Eastern Himalayas, the government has undertaken soil conservation interventions at

Areas devoted to maintained residential landscapes are a common trend in new community planning, increasing the potential for unintended environmental consequences. State, local governments, and water management organizations are interested in policies that promote low-input residential landscapes and relevant landscaping practices by individual households to mitigate potential adverse environmental

This paper examines conflicts in northern Uganda over land rights and land demarcation between neighbours who returned from absence due to displacement caused by armed conflicts. It uses detailed parcel-, household-, and community-level data collected in 2015 from villages in northern Uganda. The results are noteworthy: households that were displaced to locations far from their homes are more likely

It is essential to understand how urban plans affect urban growth patterns in order to improve current urban planning and management systems. Few studies have been conducted to analyse urban growth patterns of Shenzhen, an international megacity located in southern China, but none of them revealed the relationships between urban planning and urban growth patterns. This study explores the effects of

The non-agricultural employment transfer of the rural labor force has fundamentally changed the labor input in China in recent decades. A good understanding of how the off-farm employment of rural laborers affects agricultural land use in China is needed. We use the Driscoll and Kraay standard errors fixed effects model to investigate the relationship between rural laborers’ off-farm employment and

Urban green space (UGS) is essential for improving urban resilience and the well-being of residents, and UGS supply is an important aspect of the construction of eco-cities in China. As a quasi-public goods, compared to UGS equity studies within a city, there has been little research on UGS equity among different cities. This paper first established a conceptual framework for UGS provisioning of local

Cultivated land fragmentation (CLF) is a common phenomenon of land use in the world, which has an essential effect on agricultural production. Given the limitations of single level in the previous study on the influencing factors of CLF, this study utilizes hierarchical linear model (HLM) to explore the influencing factors of CLF from township and county levels in Jiangsu Province, and puts forward

Recently, the advancement of agriculture in Brazil has caused very serious problems, such as deforestation and an increase in the amount of pesticides and suspended sediment that have negatively impacted the environment, especially in the Prata River basin, which is located in the Serra da Bodoquena region, Brazil. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze the future changes in land use and

Anthropogenic land use is a major contributing factor to global environmental change, including forest cover loss and fragmentation. Land managers need up to date spatio-temporal land use information to plan for future land uses and mitigate adverse impacts. Here, we use spatially-explicit logistic regression analysis and methods from remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) to model

A smart built environment has become necessary for ensuring social well-being due to uncontrolled population growth and unrestrainable urban sprawl. In this connection, effective land administration is a significant element to actualize sustainable development. Yet existing building permit procedures fail to satisfy the need for current construction demands because of the insufficient transparency

Industrial land supply, as an important governmental tool in China, has both economic and political connotations. Using the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region as a study area, this paper examines local governments’ behavior in supplying industrial land at different technological intensities and its contribution to economic growth from 2007 to 2018. The results are as follows: (1) As time passed, basic

The agriculture in Eastern Europe has seen a number of economic and social transitions. This research examines the gender inequality in agriculture by taking the case of an Eastern European country – Lithuania – as an example. The questionnaire survey was employed in order to check the existence of gender inequality. The study focuses on the young farmers as they are more likely to implement innovations

Urban development in Latin America in the last decades is the result of the formal and informal processes of land occupation. As the largest city and main port of Ecuador, Guayaquil is no exception and as a case study, offers new insights into the dynamics of these processes. This city’s metropolitan expansion has exceeded its natural geographic limits (e.g. hills, rivers, estuaries), resulting in

A city comprises an ecological environment, a living and architectural space, the product of a history of human interactions that determines its morphology and destiny. Cities are complex systems that encompass elements of diverse types, such as natural objects, technical artifacts, human actors and social entities, including the rules or laws governing their behavior. Despite cities complexity, conventional

The endowment effect involving rural land is one of the most important ways to study the micro-psychology of land policies and is often regarded as a market friction that prevents market clearing and the efficient determination of fair market prices. Meanwhile, the endowment effect usually has a stronger association with a subjective feeling of land ownership than factual ownership. It is necessary

The withdrawal from rural homesteads (WRH) refers to a mechanism to encourage villagers to withdraw from their vacant homesteads or give up their occupied homesteads (including the houses built on them) voluntarily and move into high-rise buildings with compensation. WRH aims to address inefficient utilization of rural land in China. However, the endowment effect, a behavioral tendency for villagers

Chinese cities have experienced rapid urbanisation and attracted massive investment in the central city through urban redevelopment. Developing less favourable urban areas such as former industrial sites along the waterfront is less attractive for investment as these areas usually need to deal with poor environments and complicated land ownership. It is therefore important to understand how these urban

One of the key issues raised by land policies is the frequent distance between the legal and administrative frameworks as designed by the central power (i.e., formal institutional change), the effective implementation of these policies, and the actual local land practices grounded in the actors’ agency. This paper tackles this issue from a comparative perspective regarding land reforms in Algeria and

The challenges to achieve balanced territorial development are often related to the predominance of spatial concentration processes, lack of awareness of local potential and critical mass in remote regions. Despite this large-scale picture, increasingly development problems are observed also in more “centrally-located” regions of Europe necessitating a much finer grained level of spatial analysis.

Bioeconomic models make it possible to assess ex-ante the consequences of public interventions in the agriculture sector. Yet since policymakers rarely participate in their design or use, these models are often too complex or do not address their questions. This article describes the implementation of a nine-step participatory modelling process involving regional policymakers, and analyses the contribution

The application of organic fertilizer is conducive to improving the quality of cultivated land. Previous studies suggest that the small scale of operation is the key factor restricting the application of organic fertilizer in China. However, the application of organic fertilizer has not increased alongside the increase in the scale of agricultural land management in China which is associated with an

Housing development is a lengthy and multi-step process; starting from the initial stages of a planning permission proposal to when a proposal is realised on-site. Each stage seemingly impacts how developments are delivered; however, research is limited into why quality of development has been seen to weaken in the post planning-decision stage (i.e. the stage after a planning permission is granted)

The discourse on peri-urban land management frameworks cuts across different scientific domains and different tiers of government. The complexities of constructing effective framework lead to increasing land use conflicts, a consistent high rate of informal settlement patterns, frequent occurrence of illegal land acquisition, inequality in land access, and social unrest in most parts of peri-urban

The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm), launched in 2004, promoted a drastic conservation reform in Brazil. To date, the plan has been through four distinct phases: PPCDAm-I (2004–2008), II (2009–2011), III (2012–2015), and IV (2016–2020). A substantial decline from historically high deforestation rates in the Amazon occurred from 2004 to 2012,

There is a growing need for innovative new instruments to complement the current schemes aimed at improving farmland biodiversity. Some of the most promising innovations include market-based instruments relying on what is known as the commodification of biodiversity. This paper aims to estimate the compensation farmers would need to receive in order to adopt environmentally-friendly practices aimed

Currently we are facing the pandemic situation that occur all over the world. Regardless the country or even the region, the negative consequences that are expected could be very big and the level of crisis is not predictable. This situation is the challenge for the real estate market as well. Due to this fact, the authors believe that there is the time when deep transformation of approaches, procedures

This paper examines several concepts and applications that influence city and urban development. The purpose is to explore the limits to city and urban growth. These urban expansions are reflected in the growth of Charleston SC and Portland OR through their changes in night light expression. These concepts include carrying capacity, growth or cordon boundaries, agglomeration, technological change and

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are considered an important policy tool for promoting forest conservation and restoration. The effectiveness of PES programs is typically evaluated by their capacity to reduce deforestation within and around parcels receiving these payments. Larger, landscape-scale, impacts of these programs on processes such as forest fragmentation and connectivity, and payment

Agricultural land fragmentation (ALF) is one of the main challenges of developing countries including Iran. ALF could affect agricultural production, rural development, labor supply, food security, and land use change. Therefore, ALF management should be one of the main components of the land policy and decision-making systems regarding agricultural lands. In Iran (similar to many other countries)

Fragile ecosystems of the Himalayas have seen rampant land-use changes in recent times due to proliferation of hydropower development promoted as a climate change mitigation strategy for global energy transition. Further, in order to mitigate the loss of forest lands diverted for hydropower projects, countries like India have compensatory afforestation policies, which have meant more physical interference