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Institutional Change and Compliance in Forest Landscape Restoration Governance: Insights from the Western Highlands of Cameroon J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Raphael Owusu, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Lukas Giessen
The debate regarding whether, in sub-Saharan Africa, exogenous1 and endogenous institutions2 have witnessed significant changes to facilitate contemporary Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) process...
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Effects of land use/land cover, bioclimatic, and topographic variables on the seasonal occurrence of eastern equine encephalitis virus in Florida J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Joni Downs, Saurav Chakraborty, Sean P. Beeman, Rebecca Loraamm, Kristi Miley, Thomas R. Unnasch
We used the model output to explore relationships between EEEV occurrence and environmental factors, as well as generated risk maps for each season. We also introduced a normalized difference risk ...
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The agrarian transition in the Mekong Region: pathways towards sustainable land systems J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Albrecht Ehrensperger, Vong Nanhthavong, Alice Beban, Christophe Gironde, Jean-Christophe Diepart, Natalia Scurrah, Anh-Thu Nguyen, Robert Cole, Cornelia Hett, Micah Ingalls
The agrarian transition, with its rapid growth in land-based investments, has radically altered agrarian and forest landscapes across the Mekong Region. These processes were enabled and accelerated...
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Legal policy preference for coal mining over other land use alternatives jeopardizes sustainability in Indonesia J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Muhamad Muhdar, Rikardo Simarmata, Mohamad Nasir
Overlapping claims on land use between coal mining and other land-based activities have led to legal uncertainties, with negative social, economic, and environmental impacts. This study examines ov...
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Price volatility across scales and farmer maneuvering in Lao cassava markets J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Anh-Thu Nguyen, Sophie van Huellen, Jonathan Newby
Lao PDR is undergoing a rapid agrarian transformation, underpinned by a growing commercial production of commodity crops such as cassava by smallholder farmers. The global nature of commodity crop ...
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Distribution of ecosystem service potential in marginal agroecosystems in a mosaic-type landscape under exploratory scenarios J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Ivo Vinogradovs, Oļģerts Nikodemus, Andris Avotiņš, Anita Zariņa
Land-use change in agriculturally marginal mosaic-type landscapes involves economic, environmental, and social aspects and can lead to social and economic problems in rural areas. This study focuse...
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Agroecological initiatives in the Mekong Region: a systematic literature review and mapping reveals their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Cornelia Hett, Zar Chi Aye, Christophe Gironde, Alice Beban, Jean-Christophe Castella, Rasso Bernhard, Albrecht Ehrensperger
ABSTRACT In the Mekong Region, agroecological approaches provide a niche alternative to the dominant traditional or intensive farming systems. We conducted a synthesis of current evidence on agroecological interventions by means of a systematic literature review and mapping of case studies in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. The majority of the 271 identified cases focussed on practical
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Empirically modelling household vulnerability and food security across a southern African land system J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Forrest R. Stevens, A. E. Gaughan, J. Salerno, N. G. Pricope, L. Cassidy, K. Bailey, J. H. Hartter, M. Drake, A. Weaver, N. Kolarik, H. Maseka, A. Mosimane
ABSTRACT People reliant on agropastoral land systems are vulnerable to variability and changes in land function. Their vulnerability is linked to their exposure and sensitivity to various land system components and is often mediated by access to multiple livelihood capitals. We quantify aspects of that intersection with household vulnerability as measured by food insecurity, and as it is mediated by
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The struggle for forest tenure in Myanmar: voices from the 2019 forest rules consultation J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Glenn Hunt, Sonia N. Leonard
ABSTRACT This study furthers the literature on forest devolution in authoritarian states where colonial legacies of forest management favour government and commercial extraction over community-based forest tenure rights. The research analyses the 2019 nationwide consultation process for the implementation regulations (or Rules) of the Myanmar Forest Law. It examines the consultation process and how
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Patterns of land use change, land governance, and the supply of ecosystem services in a multifunctional landscape: A case study from Upstate SC, USA J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Mary Grace Albright, Caroline Vickery, Roy Bower, John E. Quinn
ABSTRACT Urban expansion and development continue to increase globally, threatening rural multifunctional landscapes that provide a diversity of direct and indirect ecological benefits. However, not all landscapes are equally impacted, thus making conservation planning more difficult. We used 8 years of land use and land cover to understand this change in Greenville Co. SC, a region experiencing rapid
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How to combine socioeconomic assessment and remote sensing methods to recover and group farm plots at risk of abandonment J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Consuelo Calafat-Marzal, Francesc J. Cervera, Áurea Gallego-Salguero, Jose-María García-Alvarez-Coque
ABSTRACT The abandonment of farmland is leading to a loss of production capacity in many agricultural systems. This article proposes a methodology for carrying out Joint Cropland Management (JCM) initiatives, which involve the cooperative use of land plots without affecting ownership, in areas with a fragmented land structure. Our framework combines a socioeconomic assessment of farmers with remote
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Geographic similarity analysis for Land System Science: opportunities and tools to facilitate knowledge integration and transfer J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Vasco Diogo, Matthias Bürgi, Niels Debonne, Julian Helfenstein, Christian Levers, Rebecca Swart, Tim G. Williams, Peter H. Verburg
ABSTRACT Advances in Land System Science (LSS) rely on the evidence generated by different types of research activities, including place-based case studies, landscape/land-system mapping and synthesis research. However, these activities are usually conducted in parallel, with a lack of integration often leading to important knowledge gaps and limitations. In this article, we provide tools for the application
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Powers of exclusion: A case study of state-led large scale rubber development in Vietnam’s north-western region J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Phuc To
ABSTRACT Cash crop development has been instrumental for economic growth in many countries. However, this intervention has negatively affected many local communities. The global rubber boom in the early 2000s prompted the state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) to scramble for land to expand their rubber plantations. This paper examines the mechanisms and processes associated with state-led large scale
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The recognition and formalization of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region: a Polanyian perspective J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Jean-Christophe Diepart, Natalia Scurrah, Alice Beban, Christophe Gironde, Natalie Y. Campbell
ABSTRACT Commodity-driven deforestation and forest conservation efforts in the Mekong region have placed multiple pressures on community-based resource systems, undermining tenure security and livelihoods. In response, several initiatives have been mobilized by states, communities, and civil society organizations which aim to recognize and formalize customary forest tenure rights. We draw on insights
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Declining potential of local food supplies to satisfy urban demand during 1990‒2015 and the resulting implications for urban food security J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Yindong Tong, Xingchen Zhuge, Delin Fang, Jiawen Xie, Yiwen Liu, Yinxing Zhao, Xuejun Wang, Wei He, Peizhe Sun, Zhi Qiao
ABSTRACT This study developed the two new indexes, the distance to the nearest cropland (DTNC) of urban residents and the foodshed radius of urban residents (FRUR), to evaluate the potential of China's local food system to sustainably meet urban food needs. The results found that the per-capita DTNC increased by 53% over 1990−2015, with a total increase of 8.2 × 106 km on a national scale; the FRUR
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Deforestation and agricultural fires in South-West Pará, Brazil, under political changes from 2014 to 2020 J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Benjamin Jakimow, Matthias Baumann, Caroline Salomão, Hugo Bendini, Patrick Hostert
ABSTRACT The increasing deforestation and fires since 2019 raises concerns about the irreversible destruction of the Brazilian Amazon. Our goal was to better understand these changes in south-west Pará across different land-tenure and farm systems and between the terms of President Rousseff, Temer, and Bolsonaro. We reconstructed deforestation and fire history using all Landsat and Sentinel-2 observations
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Strengthening climate resilience of rural communities by co-producing landscape-specific integrated farming systems in Cambodia J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Sophea Tim, Isabelle Providoli, Teamhy Sien, Soksophors Yim, Soben Kim, Hanspeter Liniger
ABSTRACT Climate change poses a major threat to the livelihoods of rural smallholder farmers in Cambodia. Adaptation measures through sustainable land management (SLM) and farming practices can help farmers to increase their resilience to climate change and secure their livelihoods. This paper presents a novel approach for promoting landscape-specific integrated farming systems (IFS) through multi-stakeholder
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Agricultural commercialization in the Mekong region: A meta-narrative review and policy implications J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Anh-Thu Nguyen, Carlos Oya, Alice Beban, Christophe Gironde, Rob Cole, Albrecht Ehrensperger
ABSTRACT Agricultural commercialization has been a development focus in the Mekong region for several decades, resulting in varying outcomes. In response to competing claims and policy advice, this meta-narrative review not only examines the literature on the impacts of agricultural commercialization in the Mekong on local livelihoods, but also investigates the research traditions that shape the conceptualization
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Surviving cassava: smallholder farmer strategies for coping with market volatility in Cambodia J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Alice Beban, Christophe Gironde
ABSTRACT Cassava has become a ‘must have’ crop for many Cambodian smallholders; yet, the market is volatile and yields are uneven. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Kampong Thom and Ratanakiri provinces, we analyse how farmers cope with volatility. We argue that multiple pathways have emerged: some farmers have ceased producing cassava; some have expanded production; while most farmers engage in ‘ambivalent
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Safeguarding customary forest tenure in the Mekong Region: a legal analysis J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Sophie Rose Lewis, Nathalie Faure, Sonia Leonard, Ratana Pen, Nguyen Ba Ngai, Kaisone Phengsopha
ABSTRACT Customary forest tenure is under increasing pressure from various actors for economic, political, and environmental purposes. The erosion of customary forest tenure can impair societal nature relations, erode traditional practices, and contribute to environmental degradation. In the Mekong Region, customary forest tenure largely remains unprotected through national laws. This article presents
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Assessing farmers’ income vulnerability to vanilla and clove export economies in northeastern Madagascar using land-use change modelling J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Enrico Celio, R. Ntsiva N. Andriatsitohaina, Jorge C. Llopis, Adrienne Gret-Regamey
ABSTRACT Using a participatory Bayesian network-based land-use decision model, we simulate future land-use patterns under various scenarios, including changes in vanilla and clove market prices as well as changes in irrigation water availability and potential harvest failures. Findings indicate that specifically the vanilla value chain (compared to the clove value chain) has a major influence on farmers
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Does land certification increase farmers’ use of organic fertilizer? evidence from China J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Linyi Zheng, Lili Li, Zongyin Zhao, Wenrong Qian
ABSTRACT Based on the data from the China Rural Household Panel Survey, a panel logit model is adopted to examine the impact of land certification on farmers’ use of organic fertilizers. The results reveal that land certification increases the probability of farmers using organic fertilizer by approximately 15%, with an average expenditure and amount of 35 yuan per mu and 23 kg per mu, respectively
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Stakeholder perspectives on farmers’ resistance towards urban land-use changes in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Melaku Bogale Fitawok, Ben Derudder, Amare Sewnet Minale, Steven Van Passel, Enyew Adgo, Jan Nyssen
ABSTRACT Owing to growing uncontrolled land-use change and urban expansion, farmers in urban fringes are struggling to sustain their livelihood. Farmers have been expressing their dissatisfaction at different times. This study analyzes the stakeholders’ perspectives on the causes and outcomes of farmers’ resistance to land-use change and urban expansion processes by zooming in on Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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Review of counterfactual land change modeling for causal inference in land system science J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Nicholas R. Magliocca, Pratik Dhungana, Carter D. Sink
ABSTRACT Land change models are important tools for land systems analysis, but their potential for causal inference using a counterfactual approach remains underdeveloped. This paper reviews the state of counterfactual land change modeling with the intent of causal inference. All of the reviewed studies promoted the value of creating ‘counterfactual worlds’ via simulation modeling to untangle complex
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Understanding and modelling the ambiguous impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Thomas Knoke, Elizabeth Gosling, Esther Reith
ABSTRACT Few land-allocation models consider the impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation. We provide a concept to integrate off-farm income in a mechanistic multiple-objective land-allocation model, while distinguishing between farms with and without re-allocation of on-farm labor to obtain off-farm income. On farms with re-allocation of labor we found that off-farm income reduced farmers’
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Uncertainty evaluation approach based on Shannon entropy for upscaled land use/cover maps J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Yunduo Lu, Peijun Sun, Linna Linghu, Meng Zhang
ABSTRACT Understanding the scale of land use/cover (LULC) map and its impacts on representing LULC is central to address earth observation issues. However, there is an absence of quantitative uncertainty evaluation of upscaled maps to be used over decades. An approach based on the Shannon entropy theory was then proposed to tackle this issue by reporting categorical heterogeneity information contained
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Community-based forest management institutions in Cameroon: dynamics and compliance determinants J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Kometa Raoul Ndikebeng, Alfred Kechia Mukong
ABSTRACT Changes linked to forest management institutions in diverse communities and cultural settings continue to attract research interest. However, comparative insights on their manifestations are lacking in Former British and Former French Cameroon. We trace the evolution of forest management institutions in the Kilum-Ijim and Santchou landscapes of Cameroon and analyse their compliance determinants
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Towards pro-poor and voluntary PES: assessment of willingness to pay and willingness to accept PES contract in central Vietnam J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Trong Hoan Do, Ivanna Patton, Delia Catacutan
ABSTRACT This study employed Contingent Valuation and Discrete Choice Experiment methods to investigate the potential of a Payment for Ecosystem Service mechanism that incentivizes sustainable land use practices by determining the willingness of ecosystem service beneficiaries to pay for delivery of services via adoption of sustainable land use practices by upland poor, ethnic minority communities
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Spatiotemporal trajectories of invasive tree species reveal the importance of collective action for successful invasion management J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Beatrice Adoyo, Urs Schaffner, Stellah Mukhovi, Boniface Kiteme, Purity Rima Mbaabu, Sandra Eckert, Simon Choge, Albrecht Ehrensperger
ABSTRACT Biological invasions are complex processes requiring coordinated and spatially targeted management. This study assessed spatiotemporal trajectories and determinants of Prosopis cover in Baringo County, Kenya. Land cover data for every seven years between 1988 and 2016 revealed the presence of Prosopis. We tested for trajectory clusters using spatial autocorrelation and overlaid the trajectory
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Political ecology of freshening the Mekong’s coastal delta: narratives of place-based land-use dynamics J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Thong Anh Tran, Hieu Van Tran, Jamie Pittock, Brian Cook
ABSTRACT This paper explores how the state-led ‘freshening the coastal zones’ policy has been implemented in pursuit of sustainable development in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Drawing on a case study of the Ba Lai irrigation scheme in a coastal district of Ben Tre Province, the paper argues that the state’s ideology of ‘freshwater over saltwater’ results in contested land-use policies that, in turn
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A mid-20th century inventory-based estimate of global terrestrial vegetation carbon stocks J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Manan Bhan, Patrick Meyfroidt, Sarah Matej, Karl-Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich
ABSTRACT Terrestrial biomass carbon stocks (BCS) play a vital role in the climate system, but benchmarked estimates prior to the late twentieth century remain scarce. Here, by making use of an early global forest resource assessment and harmonizing information on land use and carbon densities, we establish a global BCS account for the year 1950. Our best-guess BCS estimate is 450.2 PgC (median of all
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Protected areas slow down tropical rainforest disturbance in the Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Aryo Adhi Condro, Lilik Budi Prasetyo, Siti Badriyah Rushayati, I Putu Santikayasa, Entang Iskandar
ABSTRACT Tropical rainforest ecosystems that function as biodiversity pools had been undermined because of anthropogenic activities. Research has shown that protected areas (PAs) have become the first safeguard for biodiversity. However, how to measure the effectiveness of PAs remains unclear. We present spatiotemporal changes within the PAs and non-PAs in the Leuser Ecosystem, which is one of the
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Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Thompson W.J, Blaser-Hart W.J, Joerin J, Krütli P, Dawoe E, Kopainsky B, Chavez E., Garrett R.D, Six J
ABSTRACT Sustainability certification has been posited as a key governance mechanism to enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. Whilst many certifications now include climate resilience in their standards, their ability to deliver this for smallholders remains untested. We take the case of the 2015–16 drought-shock to cocoa production in Ghana to examine whether certification can enhance
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Telecoupling as a framework to support a more nuanced understanding of causality in land system science J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Louise Marie Busck-Lumholt, Johanna Coenen, Joel Persson, Anna Frohn Pedersen, Ole Mertz, Esteve Corbera
ABSTRACT This article illustrates the potential of the telecoupling framework to improve causal attribution in land system science (LSS). We shed light on the distinct analytical approaches that have characterized telecoupling research to date, how these can contribute to LSS with new insights, and whether such insights can improve causal attribution. By reviewing 45 empirical telecoupling studies
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Assessment of land use relations and the sustainability of agricultural systems: considering different views to foster social learning J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Juliana Mariano Alves, Fred Newton da Silva Souza, Stefan Sieber, Fernán Enrique Vergara, Michelle Bonatti
ABSTRACT Soil degradation creates diverse problems across varying dimensions, including food and water insecurity as well as greater vulnerability to climate change especially in Brazil. This uncover the complexity of land use as well as the challenges to asses it. In this article, a multiple case study is presented. Results obtained from three surveys using the IQRM method are discussed to assess
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Transportation in urban land change models: a systematic review and future directions J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Rakibul Ahasan, Burak Güneralp
ABSTRACT Urban land change and transportation infrastructure development often interact and collectively lead to significant socioeconomic and biophysical impacts. Here, we performed a systematic review to identify how urban land change modeling studies account for transportation infrastructure. We found that less than one-fifth of urban land modeling studies explicitly incorporated a transportation
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Land cover conversion and land use change combine to reduce grazing J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Matthew Shapero, Katherine Siegel, John A. Gallo, Justin Brice, Van Butsic
ABSTRACT Land cover and land use changes cause global environmental degradation yet changes in cover may have different impacts than changes in use. Here, we examine changes in land cover (rangeland conversion to vineyard) and land use (assocaited grazing loss on proximate rangelands) in Santa Barbara County, USA, between 1984 and 2019 paying attention to (1) instances where grazing was removed and
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Urban sprawl containment by the urban growth boundary: the case of the Regulatory Plan of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago of Chile J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Juan Pablo Schuster Olbrich, Guillem Vich, Carme Miralles-Guasch, Luis Fuentes
ABSTRACT Urban growth boundaries (UGBs) established by urban planning, are common containment strategies to prevent urban sprawl. We analyze the effectiveness of the UGB strategy in the case of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile, established by the land use plan in 1994. We describe and quantify the annual growth rate and the development of new built-up areas inside and outside the boundary
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Effectiveness of community forests for forest conservation in Nan province, Thailand J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Shivani Agarwal, Banjit Sairorkham, Phimonphan Sakitram, Eric F. Lambin
ABSTRACT In 2019, government of Thailand recognized community-based forest management and gave rights to communities to manage their forests. We evaluated the effectiveness of long-established community managed forests in conserving tree cover in Nan province, Thailand. We mapped boundaries of all community managed forests patches to understand their spatial distribution and their overlap with national
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Landscape-scale effects of farmers’ restoration decision making and investments in central Malawi: an agent-based modeling approach J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Ida N. S. Djenontin, Arika Ligmann-Zielinska, Leo C. Zulu
ABSTRACT Local farmers’ engagement and contributions are increasingly underscored in resources restoration policy. Yet, empirical context-situated understanding of the environmental impacts of farmer-led restoration remains scant. Using six Agent-based Modeling (ABM) simulations that integrate multi-type data, we explore the potential spatial-temporal aggregate patterns and outcomes of local restoration
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Gold, friction and resistance in a globalised land system: the case of Tanzania J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Anna Frohn Pedersen, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Cecilie Friis
ABSTRACT In land system science (LSS), the globalisation of land use is often understood via trade flows. Fewer studies have explored the power asymmetries and local resistance that shape global connections. Consequently, calls for a deeper engagement with power and agency have been made within LSS. To accommodate this, we engage the ethnographic literature on encounters, emphasising the concepts of
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Built-up areas are expanding faster than population growth: regional patterns and trajectories in Europe J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Marcello Schiavina, M. Melchiorri, C. Corbane, S. Freire, F. Batista e Silva
ABSTRACT Human settlements typically expand to accommodate additional housing demand from a growing population and their socio-economic activities. This implies consumption of land, a limited resource necessary for many other services. The efficiency of this exploitation in relation to demographic trends is key to preserve land and natural capital that could otherwise be degraded. Here, we assess patterns
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Editorial introduction: women in land science J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-16 Jane Southworth, Verena Seufert, Karen Seto, Darla K. Munroe
(2022). Editorial introduction: women in land science. Journal of Land Use Science: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-11.
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Advancing contiguous environmental land allocation analysis, planning and modeling J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Alan T. Murray, Richard L. Church, B. Amelia Pludow, Peter Stine
ABSTRACT The identification or delineation of a spatially contiguous area within a larger region is an important land use planning problem and is utilized across a range of disciplines and management contexts. This involves the selection of individual spatial units, such as parcels, forest stands, management areas, etc., for an intended goal, purpose, usage and/or activity with constraints on maximum
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An embeddedness perspective on family farm development in the Carpathian Mountains J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Julian Schwabe, Moritz von Oppenkowski, Tim Roesler, Markus Hassler
ABSTRACT Romanian farming is characterized by fragmented land, high age of operating farmers and low productivity that raises the question of barriers and necessities for consolidation, development and succession. This study explores the development trajectories of smallholder farming in the Romanian counties of Cluj and Maramureș using the concepts of embeddedness (as outlined in the framework of
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Agricultural households in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic, livelihoods and land-use decisions J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Kerstin Nolte, Kacana Sipangule, Niels Wendt
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has profound impacts on agricultural households. We discuss how these impacts might affect the underlying drivers of land-use decisions. First, we conceptually extend models of (smallholder) land-use decision-making to assess how the pandemic affects the underlying drivers of land-use decisions. We then examine effects on agricultural households’ livelihoods, by drawing
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Advancing the study of driving forces of landscape change J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Matthias Bürgi, Enrico Celio, Vasco Diogo, Anna M. Hersperger, Thanasis Kizos, Juraj Lieskovsky, Robert Pazur, Tobias Plieninger, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Peter H. Verburg
ABSTRACT Over the past 25 years, the study of driving forces of landscape change has developed into a central theme in land change science by contributing to theory development, promoting the analysis of causation of change and gaining insights into how landscape development could be steered into a societally more desirable direction. Based on this progress, we designate important research avenues
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Quantifying oil palm expansion in Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2015: A data fusion approach J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Melissa Wagner, Elizabeth A. Wentz, Michelle Stuhlmacher
ABSTRACT The fusion of optical imagery with radar data can provide more accurate land cover change analysis of deforestation and tree-based agriculture. Radar data is limited temporally with most geographic areas not covered prior to 2007. This paper presents a new methodology to classify land cover change related to oil palm expansion that takes historic data limitations into account. Our approach
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The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Viviana Quiroga Angel, Stevenson Pablo, Helene H. Wagner
ABSTRACT Many armed conflicts worldwide occur in biodiversity hotspots and nearly 50% of those conflicts occur in forested regions. In Colombia, the armed conflict has implied the clearing of large forest tracts for the establishment of illicit crops. The aim of this study was to assess the role that illicit crops played in the deforestation dynamics in Colombia between 2001 and 2014. We established
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Harmonization of land-cover data to assess agricultural land transformation patterns in the peri-urban Spanish Mediterranean Huertas J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Ana Ruiz-Varona, Fernando M. García Martín, Rafael Temes-Cordovez, Clara García-Mayor, Luis Casas-Villarreal
ABSTRACT Most of the peri-urban areas in European cities are characterized by a mix of rural and urban uses. Despite being sprawled areas, they provide opportunities for improving green connectivity at a multiscale level, between urban-green and natural or agricultural peripheral extensions. Several land monitoring services, both at national and European levels, have become key tools to perform the
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‘Education is the land I give them’ – mothers’ investments in children’s future livelihoods amid growing land competition in rural Uganda J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Jessica L’Roe, Niwaeli E Kimambo, Rebecca Strull, Daisy Kuzaara, Florence Kyengonzi, Lisa Naughton-Treves
ABSTRACT In western Uganda, land inheritance has been the key means to bequeath livelihood opportunities to children, but land competition is increasing rapidly. Shrinking parcels and higher prices have made bequeathing land more difficult, especially for women, whose control over land has been customarily limited. We surveyed 50 rural women about their strategies and challenges investing in children’s
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Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Ana Buchadas, Siyu Qin, Patrick Meyfroidt, Tobias Kuemmerle
ABSTRACT Land-use frontiers, such as agriculture expanding into forests, remain a major driver of biodiversity loss, and often lead to conservation responses. To better understand the geographies of conservation, connecting conservation with tools used widely in Land System Science – particularly the frontier concept – allows assessing the patterns, actors, and drivers of conservation. We propose that
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Sixty years of land-use and land-cover change dynamics in a global biodiversity hotspot under threat from global change J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Katherine Hermosilla-Palma, Patricio Pliscoff, Mauricio Folchi
ABSTRACT Constitución County in Chile shows one of the highest landscape transformations in the world due to the expansion of forest plantations. This work describes the land use/cover dynamics over a long period extending over 60 years in Constitución County. The results showed that 60% of the county extent was covered by natural vegetationt in 1955. However, forest plantation increased to 36% by
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Strategic land-use planning instruments in tropical regions: state of the art and future research J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Eduardo Oliveira, Patrick Meyfroidt
ABSTRACT Human-induced activities are threatening the socio-economic and ecological sustainability of land systems globally, including in tropical, low-income regions. In these regions, land-use planning is used to assess, manage, and monitor the physical, social, and economic conditions of territories and thus assist agribusiness, smallholder farmers, and other land users. There is, however, a lack
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Spatial planning zoning based on land-type mapping: a case study in Changzhou City, Eastern China J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Yu Gao, Penghui Jiang, Manchun Li
ABSTRACT In China, land-use policy-making relies on spatial planning zoning based on land suitability assessments. Given the complexity of land resources, there is no universally agreed suitability assessment index system. Land-type research, which aims to map interactions among environmental components (e.g. landform, soil type, and land cover, etc.) can identify units with certain homogeneity of
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Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Simone Gingrich, Andreas Magerl, Sarah Matej, Julia Le Noë
ABSTRACT Understanding the drivers of forest transitions is relevant to inform effective forest conservation. We investigate pathways of forest transitions in the United States (1920–2010), France (1850–2010), and Austria (1830–2010). By combining evidence from forest inventories with the forest model CRAFT, we first quantify how change in forest area (ΔA), maximum biomass density (ΔBdmax), and actual
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Identifying, projecting, and evaluating informal urban expansion spatial patterns J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Beth Tellman, Hallie Eakin, B.L. Turner II
ABSTRACT Informal urban land expansion is produced through a diversity of social and political transactions, yet ‘pixelizable’ data capturing these transactions is commonly unavailable. Understanding informal urbanization entails differentiating spatial patterns of informal settlement from formal growth, associating such patterns with the social transactions that produce them, and evaluating the social
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More than surface temperature: mitigating thermal exposure in hyper-local land system J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 V. Kelly Turner, Morgan L. Rogers, Yujia Zhang, Ariane Middel, Florian A. Schneider, Jonathan P. Ocón, Megs Seeley, John Dialesandro
ABSTRACT Regional land surface temperature (LST) maps derived from remote sensing data are most available to cities to assess and respond to heat. Yet, LST only captures one dimension of urban climate. This study investigates the extent to which remote sensing derived estimates of LST are a proxy for multiple climate variables at hyper-local scales (<10s of meters). We compare remotely sensed estimates
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Gender and authorship patterns in urban land science J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen, Karen C. Seto
ABSTRACT What are patterns of gender and authorship in urban land science? Our bibliometric analysis shows that the proportion of women shrinks among highly productive, impactful, and senior authors, akin to a pyramid shape. First, women are only one in ten researchers with an h-index above the 95th percentile. Second, women are first authors on 20% of all influential papers cited more than one hundred
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Decolonizing land management in institutions of higher education J. Land Use Sci. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Laura O’Brien, Praneeta Mudaliar
ABSTRACT Many institutions of higher education (IHE) were founded on and continue to benefit from the violent dispossession of Indigenous Land. IHE and Land managed by IHE frame scientific knowledge as universal, marginalizing Indigenous, non-Eurocentric perspectives and knowledge. Including local and Indigenous knowledge systems in IHE Land management has implications for fostering resilient socio-ecological