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How land property rights affect the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services: A review Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Haojie Chen, Matthew R. Sloggy, Samuel Evans
We conducted a qualitative literature review and provided a theoretical discussion of how private, common, and public land property rights (LPRs) uniquely influence the effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES). We considered three aspects of PES’s effectiveness: additionality (PES programs typically employ tests to assess whether the payment will result in additional ecosystem services)
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Beyond stormwater management: Exploring the social aspects of retrofitting raingardens for deprivation alleviation in Gloucestershire, UK Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Sasha Liddle, Alessio Russo
In the face of climate change, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) emerge as key components of urban resilience. These systems offer a multifunctional and holistic approach, aiming to address both environmental and socioeconomic priorities concurrently. While the environmental benefits are clear, the impact of SuDS on socioeconomic disparities is a nascent area of inquiry. This paper aims to
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Policy integration of forest ecosystem services-Cases of Catalonia, Estonia, Grisons, and Hesse & Thuringia Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Ester Hertegård, Camilla Widmark
To ensure the long-term utilization of various services provided by forest ecosystems (FES), it is crucial that policy governing different FES are sustainable. To achieve this, policy coherence and choice of policy implementation is fundamental. This case study provides an insight in policy contexts for FES across Europe, illustrates how policies are targeting the same objectives, and identifies the
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For or against sustainable development? A geospatial analysis of the state of green space ecosystems in West Gonja, Ghana Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Stephen Biliyitorb Liwur, Abdul Rashid Adam, Jacob Nchagmado Tagnan, Sadisu Sadique, Michael Osei Asibey, Stephen Appiah Takyi, Owusu Amponsah
The impacts of urban growth on green space ecosystems have consistently remained in the dailies of sustainability on numerous platforms. Despite the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aiming to ensure urban sustainability, many regions struggle to achieve these targets. In light of this, this study investigated the state of green space ecosystems in Ghana's Guinea Savannah (West Gonja) and clinched
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Unpacking property owners’ perceptions of flood damage Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 B. Ayça Ataç-Studt, Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková
Floods cause damage to lands and thereby often prevent property owners from using their property in the way they intend. Because of flood damage, property owners face challenges such as destruction and decreased value of their property, not finding tenants, etc. While land policy predominantly treats damage as solely economic, it also has emotional and social implications. Memories linked to a home
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Drivers to adopt agroforestry and sustainable land-use innovations: A review and framework for policy Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Aiora Zabala, Unai Pascual, Luis Enrique García-Barrios, Nibedita Mukherjee
What influences individuals' decisions to adopt sustainable land-use practices? The drivers of such complex decisions are manyfold. We develop a conceptual framework of the predictors that are external (contextual), related to the innovation, and internal or intrinsic to individuals. This framework can guide the design and evaluation of policies to encourage such decisions and subsequent behaviour
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Development of an agent-based First Nation land use voting model: Experiments in policy adoption at Curve Lake First Nation, Canada Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Robert A. Fligg, Derek T. Robinson
Land use plans and policies provide a pathway for communities to achieve a vision for future types and arrangements of land uses as well as to formalize the objectives needed to realize that vision. Members of a community often share a common vision, but differ on how it can be achieved, which is the case at Curve Lake First Nation. To investigate the factors affecting land-use plan and policy adoption
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Rainfall shocks and land conflicts: Evidence from rural Uganda and Kenya Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Rayner Tabetando, Francisco M.P. Mugizi, Djomo Choumbou Raoul Fani
This study examines the impact of negative rainfall shocks on farmland conflicts among smallholder households in Kenya and Uganda. By matching farm-level data with rainfall shocks data constructed from high-resolution precipitation data, the study provides estimates on the incidence of land conflicts. Using fixed effect models, the results indicate that communities in both Kenya and Uganda that have
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Building resilience in communities through integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies in Nepal Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Nabin Dhungana, Suraj Upadhaya, Man Bahadur Bishwakarma, Chiranjeewee Khadka, Hari Krishna Bhattarai, Chun-Hung Lee
Effective integration of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) can contribute to building community resilience. Despite shared objectives of reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience, DRR and CCA efforts remain fragmented, limiting their effectiveness. This study examines the integration of CCA and DRR policies and practices in Nepal, focusing on the Local Adaptation
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Property valuation principles – How policy changes can be detrimental to urban development Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Aneta Chmielewska, Marek Walacik, Richard Grover
Local government units rely primarily on their own revenues for financing, with sources varying in fiscal efficiency and functions. Key among these are local fees and property taxes, crucial for municipal income in most developed economies. In regions without ad valorem taxes, alternatives like betterment levies on changes in real estate structures are used. Property valuation principles, which define
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Nature-based solutions and urban planning in the Global South: Challenge orientations, typologies, and viability for cities Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Anna Giulia Castaldo, Margherita Gori Nocentini, Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Israa H. Mahmoud
Urban Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly employed in research and practice to address the pressing environmental, social and economic challenges affecting cities. Nonetheless, there is a noticeable lack of an overview of the scholarship on the use of NBS in the Global South (GS) focusing especially on urban contexts, even though GS cities face unique socio-ecological challenges that could
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Drivers of reforestation across land-use sectors in the state of São Paulo, Brazil Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 A.S. Duden, P.A. Verweij, A.C. Martensen, R.W. Verburg
Upscaling reforestation efforts is essential to meet ambitious global reforestation targets, requiring a clear understanding of the drivers and facilitating factors of forest gain, which may vary across land-use sectors. We analyse drivers of forest area change across various land-use sectors in the Atlantic Forest of São Paulo state, Brazil, to identify the Forest Transition pathway that best explains
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Spatially explicit multi-objective optimization tool for green infrastructure planning based on InVEST and NSGA-II towards multifunctionality Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-08 Yuxiang Dong, Song Liu, Xinsheng Pei, Ying Wang
The imperatives of sustainable urban development have propelled the prominence of green infrastructure (GI) as a viable solution. However, prevailing methodologies for GI planning often prioritize individual ecosystem services (ES) and lack spatially explicit guidance. This study presents a spatially explicit approach integrating the InVEST model and the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II)
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Rural revitalisation: Spatio-temporal evolution and multi-scenario prediction of ecosystem service values of second homes in Moudao, China Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-06 Zhenyan Lou, Xu Zhao, Cong Chen, Shengping Peng
Second homes are increasingly influencing regional ecological balance and economic development through the integration of rural tourism and culture. This study assesses ecosystem service values (ESV) in Moudao Town, Hubei Province, analyzing land-use changes from 2000 to 2020 and forecasting future dynamics under multi-scenario simulations. Results indicate that urbanization led to construction land
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Archetype analysis of land governance: A systemism research paradigm Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Rong Tan, Rongyu Wang
Land resource use involves the interplay of natural, economic, political and social factors, posing challenges for understanding and governing the complexity of land-use social-ecological systems (SESs). Therefore, this study develops a systemism research paradigm for archetypes of land-related SES governance, including theoretical content, main features and specific approaches. The archetypes of land-related
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Identifying suitable areas for cropland and urban development in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-02 Lijing Wang, Lu Zhang, Yi Xiao, Lingqiao Kong, Zhiyun Ouyang
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a rapidly urbanizing region home to 36 million people. However, it is also a hotspot for biodiversity conservation and a key provider of ecosystem services for Asia. Therefore, there is notable conflict between the needs for ecosystem protection and land development for food production and urbanization as the region’s population continues to grow and urban areas develop
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Capturing or compensating? Comparing legitimacies, legitimations and rationales of added value capture instruments Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Andreas Hengstermann, Linda McElduff, Heather Ritchie
The development of land leads to immense increases in land value. Across different planning systems, there are calls for this revenue to be used to enable planning gain for the general public budget. This can be achieved through the use of added value capture: a policy approach rooted in the notion that public action should generate public benefit. Planning literature hypothesises that the successful
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Adoption of land restoration activities in Ethiopia: Understanding gender-labor dimensions Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-29 Soumya Balasubramanya, Kashi Kafle
The role of labor in the adoption of land restoration activities (LRA) that reduce soil degradation in smallholder agricultural systems has received inadequate attention. We examine the gender-labor dimensions of the adoption of LRAs by smallholder agricultural households in rural Ethiopia, in a context where more than 90 percent of agricultural households have some form of private land tenure security
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Digital technologies for climate-induced disaster risk reduction and management in Ghana: Applicability and operational challenges Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-26 Shine Dela-Edem Wormenor, Michael Osei Asibey
The occurrence of natural disasters has intensified over the past two decades in African cities with devastating consequences on people and properties. Despite the emergence of improved development of digital technologies (DTs) for disaster risk identification and management, their development and application in Africa largely remain unclear. This study explored the applicability and challenges associated
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Spatial allocation of nature-based solutions in the form of public green infrastructure in relation to the socio-economic district profile–a GIS-based comparative study of Gdańsk and Rome Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-21 Anahita Azadgar, Giulia Luciani, Lucyna Nyka
With increasing environmental and climate change threats to urban areas, Nature-based Solutions (NbS), including public greenery, are becoming integral components of green infrastructure (GI) networks. These solutions provide multiple benefits in different aspects, including stormwater management, enhanced air quality and improved societal well-being, offering cost-effective and adaptable alternatives
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Unravelling the link between land use policy and digital infrastructure: Insights from Czech rural communities Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-18 Martin Pelucha, Alexander Shemetev
This study explores the complex interaction between land use policies and digital infrastructure in rural contexts, focusing on the Czech Republic. By examining data from 2014 to 2020, spanning economic and social, technological and agricultural dimensions, we explore the interrelationship between agricultural land abandonment policies and internet connectivity. Through spatial analysis and statistical
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Forestry on abandoned agricultural land: Future options for Russia Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-18 Denis Dobrynin, Alexander Vorbrugg, Teppo Hujala
Farmland abandonment and its natural afforestation occur in many countries, although net cropland expansion continues globally. Some strategies focus on recultivating abandoned farmland, while others focus on alternative land uses, including silviculture, carbon sequestration, and rewilding. Russia holds the world’s largest areas of abandoned farmland overgrown with forests. However, these forests
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Enhancing land management policy in Bangladesh: A blockchain-based framework for transparent and efficient land management Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-17 Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid, Abdullah Al Rafi, Md. Ashraful Islam, Sifat Ullah Sharkar, Ziaul Haque Rafi, Mahamudul Hasan, Md Sawkat Ali, M. Saddam Hossain Khan
This paper introduces a blockchain-based framework designed to enhance the land management system in Bangladesh by addressing issues such as data fragmentation, corruption, and inefficiencies in land registration and titling. The proposed system integrates blockchain technology with smart contracts, IoT capabilities, and AI across five distinct layers: blockchain layer, stakeholder access layer, AI
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Analysis of demand for land consolidation works in Poland – A case study of the Bałtów commune Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-13 Kewin Krzemieniecki, Monika Mika
This publication presents the scope of analyses and the results of the study on de-mand for land consolidation works in a hitherto unexplored area of Poland, located in the cadastral districts of the Bałtów commune. The authors analysed the spatial structure of the area under study, resulting in rankings (developed using statistical methods) of the areas which should be included in the land consolidation
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Rethinking household food security under a changing climate in drought prone areas of Ethiopia Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-13 Gershom Endelani Mwalupaso, Aseres Mamo Eshetie, Eunice Matafwali, Asma Akter, Hua Lu, Xianhui Geng
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is a strategic approach that can mitigate the impacts of climate change on food and nutrition security (FNS). Despite extensive research on this intersection, CSA adoption is often treated as a single, aggregate variable, which may obscure nuanced realities and choices that farmers confront. Additionally, empirical evidence linking CSA adoption to FNS remains limited
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A mechanics-based theoretical framework of urban sprawl force: A case study in Nanjing, Wuxi, and Yangzhou, China Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Xiaoshun Li, Haitao Ji, Xin Chen, Xizhao Liu, Yiwei Geng, Bixia Deng, Fan Li
With the progress of urbanization, environmental challenges stemming from rapid urban sprawl have become pervasive. Consequently, research on urban sprawl has emerged as a crucial focal point in sustainable development efforts, emphasizing the need to understand the evolution characteristics and systemic mechanism of urban sprawl. However, existing research on the urban sprawl mechanism remains somewhat
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Long-term landscape structure change in contrasting land occupation strategies of the Brazilian Amazon Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 Lucas Alencar, Maria Isabel Sobral Escada, José Luís Campana Camargo
Land occupation policies can have unintended consequences to the landscape structure, with pervasive effects on biodiversity. Here we investigate the long-term consequences of contrasting historical types of occupation in Amazonian landscapes (few large vs several small landowners) on forest fragmentation and landscape structure. Using satellite Landsat images series, we identified typologies of deforestation
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Co-design in policy development: Leveraging opportunities, addressing challenges, and proposing solutions for inclusive governance - Lessons from England Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-07 Judith Tsouvalis, Ruth Little, José Fajardo-Escoffie, Susan E. Hartley, David Christian Rose, Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Auvikki de Boon, Siobhan Maderson, Julie Urquhart
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Envisaging nature-based solutions as designed ecosystems in the changing world Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-07 Denis Vasiliev, Richard W. Hazlett
The tide of global biodiversity decline is unlikely to be turned without conservation efforts on human land-uses. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) seem to be a particularly promising set of tools that could be mobilized for this purpose. The problem, however, is that application of sustainable practices in NbS on human land-uses does not guarantee capability of these ecosystems to maintain biodiversity
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Promoting sustainable land management: An innovative approach to land-take decision-making Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-28 Pranav Gupta, Alka Bharat, Nick McCullen, Tristan Kershaw
Land degradation presents significant global challenges, threatening natural resources, biodiversity, and food security. Addressing this issue requires more effective land-take decision-making processes, particularly in data-deficient cities where comprehensive land assessment methods are challenging to implement. This study introduces a streamlined land-take decision-making framework designed to promote
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Towards the use of stool land revenue for community development in Ghana: Evidence from the Wassa Fiase traditional area Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-26 Senu Maha-Atma Pomevor
Land generates a lot of revenue which could be used for development. Stool land revenue in the Wassa Fiase traditional area in particular, provides such an opportunity. In the Wassa Fiase area the dynamic land management practices serve as a prospect to mobilise more revenue from various sources. In a case study, and using semi-structured interviews and questionnaires in addition to a multi-stage sampling
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Urban rewilding for sustainability and food security Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-26 Alessio Russo, Mallika Sardeshpande, Christoph D.D. Rupprecht
Urban sustainability and food security remain pressing issues for cities across the world. Here, we argue that adapting rewilding to urban contexts unlocks new solutions for societal challenges. Rewilding is an established paradigm in ecological restoration, with the goal of restoring autonomous biotic and abiotic agents and processes. However, urban rewilding is an emerging but under-studied phenomenon
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Spatiotemporal analysis of underlying factors in urban transformations: Quantifying the importance of urban plan intentions in the Austin Metropolitan Area, Texas Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-20 Chunhong Zhao, Qihao Weng, Zhichao He
Urban planning has widely become a key policy tool for managing urban growth. However, understanding the role of urban planning in shaping land development and directing urbanization is still contentious across various socioeconomic and geographical contexts. This paper conducts an in-depth analysis of urban spatial transformation in Austin, Texas across three distinct periods: the pre-planning period
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The engagement of environmental organizations on land policies: A case study of Pro Natura, Switzerland Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-17 Lauriane Cailleux
The growing tension around land use issues is pressuring public authorities to regulate land use due to factors such as climate change and biodiversity preservation. Third-party actors, like non-profit organizations, play a significant role in land policies by owning land, monitoring conservation easements, and influencing regulatory decisions through expertise, media campaigns, and legal actions.
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The smart city competitiveness index (SMCI): Conceptualization, modelling, application – An evidence-based insight Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-15 Anna Visvizi, Roman Wosiek, Radosław Malik
At the core of the discussion in this paper lies the recognition that information and communication technology (ICT) and ICT-enhanced tools, applications, as well as elements of built environment (BE), specific to and defining the smart city, have considerable potential to facilitate economic exchange in the geographically limited smart city space. In this way, they contribute to the enhancement of
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Effects of land use changes on local dust event in Urmia Lake basin Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-12 Fatemeh Bashirian, Dariush Rahimi, Saeed Movahedi
Land use change is an effective factor in climate change and global warming, which contributes to the carbon cycle, radiant energy balance, and dust production. Urmia Lake basin water balance in the Northwestern part of Iran is in a critical condition due to land use change, drought, and climate change. This process has led to the lake water area reduction and pronounced dust production. The satellite
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Quantifying supply and demand of cultural ecosystem services from a dynamic perspective Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-12 Yuxin Zhang, Bin Fu, Juying Sun, Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva
This study introduces a dynamic perspective to assess Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) supply and demand, addressing the limitations of previous research. We take a park as a case study, paying special attention to key CES types such as aesthetics, recreation, social relations, and education. We employed various data acquisition methods, including behavioral observations, and public participatory
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Impact of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian small and medium farmers’ productivity Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-12 Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Ming Fang
Data on 2251 small and medium-size Ukrainian farms in 2021 and 2022 is used to assess the short-term impact of the Russian invasion on productive performance of a sector that is often excluded from official statistics. Once weather is adjusted for, the area response remained limited. However, higher transport cost and input prices severely reduced farm profitability, implying that 46 % of farms had
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Understanding how equitable and efficient land governance can influence environmental sustainability status: Evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-09 Taiwo Oladapo Babalola
Environmental sustainability in Global South cities has continued to be a matter of concern in development research and policy discourses. While there have been opinions that land governance would be instrumental in advancing this agenda, there is no empirical evidence to substantiate this claim. Thus, this study explores the potential for improved equitable and efficient land governance to foster
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Toward tenure security: The relationship between women's land ownership, formal land title documents and their empowerment Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-08 Imaneh Goli, Masoud Bijani, Pourya Kabir Koohi, Rytis Skominas, Rando Värnik, Steven Van Passel, Thomas Dogot, Hossein Azadi
Respect for land rights for women, as a key strategy to promote their development and empowerment as well as improving their welfare, has been considered in today's societies. However, there have been few empirical studies to back up this statement. Therefore, the primary goal of this research was to find out whether or not women may increase their authority through economic tenure security, legal
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The influence of land use planning and exposure to flooding on urban growth in San José, Costa Rica Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-05 Eduardo Pérez-Molina, Rosendo Pujol-Mesalles, Jonathan Aguero-Valverde, Félix Zumbado-Morales
We estimate areas of potential flooding exposure within the San José Metropolitan Region with morphometric methods. Based on this potential hazard zoning, we use a spatial-statistical model to explore the difference introduced by land use regulations (municipal and regional) on urban growth, controlling for potential exposure to hazards and other sources of spatial heterogeneity. The potential flood
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What is the “best” way to measure the relative location variables in the market value assessment? An econometric method applied to an Italian case study Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-11-02 Aurora Ruggeri, Felicia Di Liddo, Laura Gabrielli, Francesco Tajani, Pierluigi Morano
The present research is dedicated to investigating the explanatory power of relative location variables in assessing and forecasting market values. Here, relative location refers to the spatial position (geographical context) of a building or property in relation to a given Point Of Interest (POI). Specifically, a methodological approach is proposed for identifying the most suitable quantification
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Are agri-environmental schemes doing their job? Evidence from Biebrza National Park, Poland Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-24 Joanna Sucholas, Zsolt Molnár, Łukasz Łuczaj, Rainer Luick, Peter Poschlod
The Biebrza Valley is one of the largest wetland ecosystems in Central Europe to host species of convervation relevance, and features a strongly biocultural character. The semi-natural habitats that dominate its landscape have been developed as a result of centuries-long regimes of traditional grazing and haymaking. Starting in the 1960s, the gradual abandonment of traditional agriculture has threatened
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Conflicts, crop choice, and agricultural investments: Empirical evidence from Nigeria Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-23 Mulubrhan Amare, Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, Kwaw S. Andam, Dolapo Adeyanju
Conflict remains a major driver of poverty in Africa. Conflicts and political instability in the region have been increasing recently and are drawing more attention in public discourse. While it is widely acknowledged that conflicts disrupt agricultural production and food systems, the full extent of the damage inflicted on the lives and livelihoods of farming households and the mechanisms to redress
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BIM/IFC as input for registering apartment rights in a 3D Land Administration Systems – A prototype webservice Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Marjan Broekhuizen Msc, Eftychia Kalogianni PhD candidate, Peter van Oosterom Prof.dr.ir.
The need for 3D Land Administration Systems (LAS) is growing. In this respect, research is carried out in the field of 3D LAS with respect to data sources, registration of 3D Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities and dissemination services. Within this context, BIM/IFC models are considered promising sources for 3D LAS, even though the reuse of such models from practice has not yet been examined
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Growing green: Exploring the drivers of citizens’ participation in Italian urban and peri-urban forestation governance Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-19 Lucia Baldi, Maria Teresa Trentinaglia, Alkis Thrassou, Antonino Galati
Urban and peri-urban forests (UPUFs) are essential components of urban landscapes that offer multiple benefits to local communities, above all to those who live in large cities. This realization has fueled the interest of the scientific community in understanding citizens’ attitudes and perceptions towards UPUFs, focusing on the diverse ecosystem services they provide in social and environmental terms
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How are smart city policies progressing in Italy? Insights from SDG indicators Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Roberta Barbieri, Benedetta Coluccia, Francesco Natale
With the rise of global urbanization, cities encounter considerable socioeconomic and environmental challenges embodied in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Therefore, the crucial importance of urban planning cannot be underestimated in pursuing sustainable development. Among urban sustainability efforts, the smart city has emerged
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Distressed property and spillover effect: A study of property price response to coastal flood risk Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-16 S. Sariffuddin, D. Ary A. Samsura, Erwin van der Krabben, Budi Setiyono, Wisnu Pradoto
This paper presents evidence of distressed property spillover in coastal flood-prone areas. By utilizing a hedonic pricing model, this study may contribute to the global discussion on how property markets react to deterioration in coastal areas, specifically from the perspective of the Global South. Spillover effects in housing prices were observed through a spatial autoregressive model by investigating
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On the brink of transition? From pathways to methodological heuristics for improved causal analysis in forest transition research Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-16 Joel Persson
The forest transition – a sustained shift from net loss to net gain in forest cover – has enabled macro-level explanatory accounts of the causal processes underlying reversals of net forest loss. However, criticisms emphasise the inadequate accounting of scalar and spatial interdependences giving rise to uneven dynamics, while the dominant explanatory approach of characterising pathways seem incapable
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Outcomes of an agri-environmental scheme in the management of common pastures in northern Portugal: Social benefits and effects on local capacity for collective action Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Ana Luísa Luz
Baldios are wide areas, integrated in extensive farming systems, historically held and managed by local communities for animal grazing and other extractive activities in support of their livelihoods. This land tenure regime persisted despite successive political and socioeconomic changes that threatened its communitarian nature, profoundly influencing the socioeconomic structure of rural areas. Today
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(Non-)terrestrial and (Non-)local pathways of behavioral policy diffusion in European cities’ climate action plans: Contextual, cultural, and leadership framing Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Jessica Page, Hong Zhou, Haozhi Pan, Chang Zhou, Pei Pei, Zahra Kalantari
This study investigates the spread of innovative behavioral (green nudging) policies within city-level Climate Action Plans (CAPs) across the European Union, focusing on how these innovations diffuse and the factors influencing their adoption. Using textual analysis with a dataset consisting of CAPs from 40 cities across Europe, we categorized various green nudging innovations and then tracked their
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Deriving a justified budget for peatland rewetting – Applying the German coal phase-out as a blueprint Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Pia Sommer, Sebastian Lakner, Anke Nordt, Franziska Tanneberger, Johannes Wegmann
Carbon emissions of peatlands drained for agriculture and forestry contribute more than 7 % to total GHG emissions in various countries worldwide. Hence, reducing these emissions by ending peatland drainage is a significant contribution to a transition towards carbon neutrality and being in line with the Paris Agreement. To achieve this goal, swift action is needed. Using Germany as a case study, we
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Persistence of sub-urban agriculture and landowners' behavior in the population declining phase: Case of the preferential tax treatment for rental farmland Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-05 Hironori Yagi, Shingo Yoshida
With the majority of the world’s population residing in urban areas, particularly in vast suburbs, land use control around the suburbs of large cities is a concern for not only protecting agricultural productivity but also maintaining a decent residential environment. A practical policy measure to address this concern is providing preferential tax treatments to landowners who lease out their farmland
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Harmonization potential of the fragmented farmlands in Finland: The pros and cons for critical parcel characteristics Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio, Lauri Jauhiainen, Roope Näsi, Eetu Puttonen, Eija Honkavaara
Agricultural landscapes have been shaped by gradual, partially optimized changes in farms and surrounding areas which have resulted in fragmented agricultural landownership and increased distances on farms. Since Finland joined the EU in 1995, the average farm size has more than doubled which has increased the distances on farms. This may have caused trade-offs with resource use efficiency, productivity
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Landscape sustainability and land sustainability: A bibliometric analysis Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Xuening Fang, Qun Ma, Zhifeng Liu, Jianguo Wu
Landscape sustainability and land sustainability are interrelated and complementary research fields, rooted respectively in ecological and geographic sciences, but both embracing sustainability as their ultimate goal. However, it is not clear how these two fields have developed in recent decades, and whether they have interacted synergistically to advance the science and practice of sustainability
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Towards a comprehensive analysis of agricultural land systems in the EU and US: A critical view on publicly available datasets Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Emily Burchfield, Marco Ferro, Silke Hüttel, Tobia Lakes, Heidi Leonhardt, Andreas Niedermayr, Andrea Rissing, Stefan Seifert, Maximilian Wesemeyer
Understanding agricultural land systems is paramount to preparing for future transitions under climate change. Systematic quantitative, multi-context analyses of agricultural land systems are a promising way of increasing our understanding but rely on the availability of large-scale and commensurable data. The available data, however, are outcomes of political priorities and processes and thus not
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Potential environmental implications of sandbar afforestation: Insights from ecosystem restoration initiatives in a sandbar of Brahmaputra River Assam, India Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Mrinalini Goswami, Satya Prakash, Sunil Nautiyal, Sharif A. Mukul
Plantation in riverine sandbars offers an excellent opportunity for restoration of ecosystem with a vast potential for enhancing carbon stock. Afforestation on barren islands is challenging task; however, Padmashree Jadav Payeng has single-handedly transformed a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra into a forested landscape in India’s northeastern state of Assam. Such inspiring initiative needs more attention
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Structured decision-making shows broad support from diverse stakeholders for habitat conservation and restoration in Kenya’s Central Highlands Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Gwili E.M. Gibbon, Martin Dallimer, Hassan Golo, Humphrey Munene, Charlene A. Wandera, Monda N. Edson, Jane C. Gachura, Tim Hobbs, Festus Ihwagi, Stephen R. Ikhamati, Samson K. Ikiara, David Kimathi, Francis B. Lenyakopiro, James M. Mwamodenyi, John Mwiti, Rachael Mundia, Justuce Mureithi, Godfrey Mwogora, Priscilla K. Ndiira, Redempta Njeri, Jerenimo Lepirei, Craig Outram, Phineas Rewa, Maurice Schutgens
The need for targeted restoration in regions where ecosystem integrity has become compromised is now widely recognised. Local community views, alongside those of other stakeholders, should be incorporated into transparent decision-making to ensure conservation/restoration activities are successful. We used a structured decision-making approach, working with stakeholders and local communities, to pose
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Reviewing the reportage of land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement issues in mainstream Indian Media Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Kanchan Sen Sharma, V. Jothiprakash
The study is based on the articles published in the leading news websites on land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement (LARR) in India and highlights the need of proper structuring and streamlining of the reportage. The study reveals how most news articles reporting the plights of the people fail to uncover their long term issues like degradation of living conditions at the resettlement site
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How Covid-19 changed the way we visit rivers? Applications of big data for sentiment analysis Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Arash Akhshik, Marianna Strzelecka, Joanna Tusznio, Małgorzata Grodzińska-Jurczak
Rivers function as natural settings, bringing people together with various activities in the surrounding area. While the literature has overlooked the emotional values and wellbeing connection associated with rivers, knowing how the rivers are perceived by visitors and how the use of rivers has changed during the pandemic can assist decision-making for land use policies and planning. On the other hand