Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107547
Yitian Jin , Kunyang Zhang , Yi Luo , Laping Wu
{"title":"Does land leasing encourage ecological conservation practices among Chinese maize farmers?","authors":"Yitian Jin , Kunyang Zhang , Yi Luo , Laping Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107547","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As global agricultural demands rise, the imperative to balance enhanced land productivity with ecological system protection becomes increasingly critical. To elucidate how differences in land ownership affect farmers' ecological protection behaviors on owned versus leased land, this paper develops a conceptual model linking land leasing with the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, which is grounded in the duration of land contracts. An empirical analysis was conducted using data from 71373 samples collected through the China National Agricultural Product Cost and Benefits Survey (CNACBS) from 2004 to 2022. The results indicate that farmers with a greater proportion of leased land are less likely to adopt ecological farming practices. Specifically, leasing land significantly increases the use of fertilizers and pesticides by maize growers, whereas the use of manure decreases. However, land title certification can effectively mitigate the inhibitory effect of leased land on farmers' farmland ecological protection behaviors. Additionally, farmers with experiences of tenancy insecurity, due to past instability in land tenure and policy changes, exhibit a more conservative approach to long-term investments and continuous management of land. Compared with those in plains regions, farmers in mountainous areas are more inclined to adopt strategies that excessively use fertilizers and pesticides to maximize short-term economic benefits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107547"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-31DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107535
MD Rakesur Rahman , Sujeong Kang , Sangchul Lee , Junga Lee
{"title":"A green infrastructure planning approach for enhanced flood control and resilience in urban areas","authors":"MD Rakesur Rahman , Sujeong Kang , Sangchul Lee , Junga Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107535","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban flooding presents a growing challenge in metropolitan areas due to climate change and increasing impervious surfaces. This research proposes a Green Infrastructure (GI) planning approach to enhance flood control and resilience in the flood-prone Yeoksam-dong region of Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea. A mixed-method approach was employed, incorporating both residents’ preferences and hydrological simulations using the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) to assess the effectiveness of various GI controls. Key GI co-benefits were identified through importance–performance analysis (IPA) and fuzzy weight rankings. Based on these, three GI scenarios were developed and evaluated for their flood mitigation potential. Scenario 1 (infiltration trench, rain garden, and rain barrel) emerged as the most effective, reducing surface runoff by 18.56 % and achieving the best cost-benefit ratio of 1.01 over a 10-year period. Scenario 2 (bio-retention, pervious pavement, and green roof), while less effective in terms of flood mitigation, may still offer ecological and social co-benefits. The study also conducted a sensitivity analysis, which confirmed Scenario 1’s robustness across various levels of imperviousness, making it a highly adaptable solution for urban settings. This research highlights the importance of community engagement in GI planning and demonstrates how integrating hydrological performance with socioeconomic benefits can enhance urban resilience. By aligning with the 4Rs of resilience; robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity, this study provides actionable insights for policymakers and urban planners seeking cost-effective, scalable solutions for flood-prone areas. The findings underscore the value of multifunctional GI controls in not only reducing flood risks but also promoting long-term sustainability and community well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107535"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-30DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107553
Yafei Li , Julian Helfenstein , Rebecca Swart , Christian Levers , Franziska Mohr , Vasco Diogo , Matthias Bürgi , Tim G. Williams , Rigas Zafeiriou , Anita Zarina , Jeanine Ammann , Víctor Rolo , Peter H. Verburg , Michael Beckmann , Józef Hernik , Thanasis Kizos , Felix Herzog
{"title":"Agroecological and technological practices in European arable farming: Past uptake and expert visions for future development","authors":"Yafei Li , Julian Helfenstein , Rebecca Swart , Christian Levers , Franziska Mohr , Vasco Diogo , Matthias Bürgi , Tim G. Williams , Rigas Zafeiriou , Anita Zarina , Jeanine Ammann , Víctor Rolo , Peter H. Verburg , Michael Beckmann , Józef Hernik , Thanasis Kizos , Felix Herzog","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agroecological and technological innovations are two important approaches in the transition towards agricultural sustainability. We lack knowledge about how current agricultural contexts may influence future development pathways and the relative importance of the two approaches. This study explores the alignment between past uptake of agroecological and technological practices and future visions of agricultural development in seven European arable farming systems. By combining landscape mapping with farmer interviews, we first assessed the past adoption of agroecological and technological practices in each region. Then, we compared our findings with expert surveys about the future directions of agricultural development that can address local arable farming challenges. We found that in regions with intensive arable farming, agroecological approaches lagged behind the uptake of technological measures, both in the past and in future prospects. In low-intensity regions, we found large gaps between past uptake and future prospects of agroecological and technological practice adoption. These gaps need to be overcome in the context of future challenges of climate change adaptation and of environmental obligations. Our results indicate the need to take differentiated measures depending on farm management intensity and landscape conditions to enhance the future uptake of agroecological and technological solutions that can address the local challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107553"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143735197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-28DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107545
Johan de Jong , Lourens Poorter , Wil de Jong , Frans Bongers , Madelon Lohbeck , Elmar Veenendaal , Jorge A. Meave , Catarina C. Jakovac , Pedro H.S. Brancalion , Lucy Amissah , Miguel Martínez-Ramos , Harm Bartholomeus , Susan G.W. Laurance , William Hagan Brown , Mathieu Decuyper
{"title":"Dissecting forest transition: Contribution of mature forests, second-growth forests and tree plantations to tree cover dynamics in the tropics","authors":"Johan de Jong , Lourens Poorter , Wil de Jong , Frans Bongers , Madelon Lohbeck , Elmar Veenendaal , Jorge A. Meave , Catarina C. Jakovac , Pedro H.S. Brancalion , Lucy Amissah , Miguel Martínez-Ramos , Harm Bartholomeus , Susan G.W. Laurance , William Hagan Brown , Mathieu Decuyper","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107545","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forest Transition (FT) is a theoretical framework for understanding tree cover changes but often overlooks differences within countries, across forest types (e.g., second-growth forests, tree plantations replacing natural forests), regions, and climates. We quantified tropical tree cover dynamics across eight regions in four tropical countries, examining how these patterns relate to FT and how they vary between climates and forest types. Each country represented a different stage in the FT trajectory. We combined Landsat-derived time-series from 1990 to 2020 with Sentinel-2-based land cover classification to distinguish between mature natural forests (MF), second-growth forests (SF), tree plantations (TP), and their dynamics. During this period, 50 % of MF was lost, while tree cover gains averaged 16 % across regions; SF contributed 23 % and TP 12 % of total tree cover by 2020. SF steadily increased, yet its average lifespan was only 10 years, limiting its ecological contributions compared to MF. The studied regions followed the theoretical FT trajectory: the Ghanaian regions were in early transition (pre-inflection), Mexican regions were in late transition (pre-inflection), and the Australian and Brazilian (São Paulo state) regions were in post-transition (post-inflection). Evaluating FT while including or excluding TP results in different conclusions about the FT trajectory of a region or country. MF was lower in dry (from 55 % in the 1990s to 23 % in 2020) than in wet (from 73 % in the 1990s to 35 % in 2020) forest regions. SF gains were higher in dry (31 %) than in wet (23 %) regions, though SF increases did not compensate for MF loss, resulting in reduced biodiversity and ecological functioning. Hence, halting deforestation and protecting young forests are equally crucial. Evaluating FT excluding TP and quantifying SF persistence may have far-reaching consequences for how to evaluate tree cover by not only evaluating tree cover quantity, but also tree cover quality. Our findings can inform policymakers to design smart policy mixes that sequence the right policy instruments at the right time. Local people must participate in forest restoration strategies and issues of equity, justice and power imbalances must be addressed to facilitate FT. Dissecting FT increases our understanding of the underlying forest cover dynamics, which can lead to better policies for protecting local people`s livelihoods, halt deforestation, and facilitate FT to restore the natural world upon which people`s lives and society depend.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107545"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143715955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-28DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107525
S. Anougmar , L. Fockaert , K. Michiel , S. Van Passel , S. Van Schoubroeck
{"title":"Could the new eco schemes replace the long-known agri-environmental measures? Evidence from two labeled discrete choice experiments","authors":"S. Anougmar , L. Fockaert , K. Michiel , S. Van Passel , S. Van Schoubroeck","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of the most recent reform of the European Common Agricultural Policy (2023–2027), new voluntary environment-friendly measures have been introduced. These measures, termed eco-schemes, represent one-year arrangements with limited restrictions. They are, therefore, considered to be more flexible than the revised and more demanding agri-environment-climate measures (AECM). The introduction of the new eco-schemes, alongside the AECM, raises questions regarding 1) the acceptance of eco-schemes by farmers, and 2) the impact on adoption of AECM. Would farmers prefer to continue with familiar measures or opt for the new, less restrictive, and shorter eco-schemes? To address these questions, two discrete choice experiments (a stated preference method) were conducted on a sample of 360 farmers with previous AECM experience. These experiments focus exclusively on grassland-related measures, as they are available in both contract forms, eco-schemes and AECM. The results reveal a general aversion to voluntary agri-environmental measures. However, farmers are more inclined to implement the new eco-schemes rather than the more familiar AECM, especially when the compensation of the latter is conditional on the environmental results. The findings also emphasize the impact of restrictions and the flexibility of the contract on farmers’ decision-making processes, particularly when dealing with result-based AECM.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107525"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143715956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-27DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107546
Yunfeng Hu , Chenxi Cui , Zhanpeng Liu , Yunzhi Zhang
{"title":"Vegetation dynamics in Mainland Southeast Asia: Climate and anthropogenic influences","authors":"Yunfeng Hu , Chenxi Cui , Zhanpeng Liu , Yunzhi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding vegetation dynamics and their influencing factors is essential to regional sustainable development and ecological security. However, large-scale and long-term vegetation changes and attribution pose challenges due to temporal and quality discrepancies in multi-source remote sensing data. This study developed a research framework based on multi-source data integration and conducted a case study in Mainland Southeast Asia. By integrating Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data, we generated a long-term Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) dataset for 1982–2023. We used trend test, partial correlation analysis, and linear regression analysis to explore spatiotemporal vegetation dynamics and their links to climate and human activities. The results show: (1) the multi-year average NDVI of Mainland Southeast Asia is 0.797, with 85 % of the area exceeding 0.7, indicating robust vegetation growth across the region. The regional NDVI shows a significant increasing trend in 1982–2023, with a growth rate of 0.02 per decade. (2) The impact of rising temperatures on vegetation in Mainland Southeast Asia is mainly positive, increasing NDVI in 81 % of the area. Whereas the impact of reduced precipitation on vegetation is negligible. (3) In the quantitative attribution, temperature changes have the largest contribution to NDVI changes, contributing 70 % (0.049) to regional NDVI changes (0.056) and dominating 40 % of the area. Human activities contribute 20 % (0.014) and dominate 33 % of the area. Precipitation changes contribute 10 % (–0.007) and dominate about 5 % of the area. This study offers scientific insights and data support for understanding vegetation changes and sustainable development in Mainland Southeast Asia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107546"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143704046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-27DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107538
Lise Pinault , Daniel Gilbert , Elsa Martin
{"title":"Potential of peatlands restoration for GHG emissions mitigation in France: Investigation of acquisition costs","authors":"Lise Pinault , Daniel Gilbert , Elsa Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107538","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107538","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public demand for the restoration of degraded French peatlands is strong, as they contribute to climate change. A French carbon offset accreditation is being developed to facilitate private investment in peatland restoration. Assessing the costs of restoration programs and projects is vital to target cost-efficiency. Studies on acquisition costs are non-existent in the peatland scientific literature, while the sale price of peatlands could increase restoration costs, hampering the feasibility of operation works. Given the need for spatially explicit information for restoration planning, we use the first stage of the hedonic prices method to provide a model that measures the price of French peatlands and its determinants, at a national scale. Real peatland sales from the DVF+ database (Cerema) are exploited. The parcels selected in the model are distributed along a gradient of elevation, state of degradation and intensity of land use. Predictions of peatland prices are then made in the Cotentin-Bessin and jurassian massif regions to check the validity of the model. The average peatland price is 3014 €/ha but it varies greatly between regions. The main results indicate that intensive land use (crops) and increasing slope raise the selling price, while elevation, increasing distance to settlement and moor land use lower it. The prediction results are encouraging for a nationwide use of peatland prices in restoration planning programs. This study will also help get a better understanding of implications of peatland acquisition in restoration and total costs. This study provides <em>ex-ante</em> information before the price of land may rise due to soaring carbon prices and the attractiveness of peatland purchase for private sector following the implementation of the French carbon offset accreditation for peatlands. Afterwards, the focus should be put onto complementary land indicators such as fragmentation. The methods developed in the article can be applied to other contexts where there are overlapping land uses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107538"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143704045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107541
Mingxing Liu , Qiaoling Luo , Rongjun Huang , Yangyi Wu , Junfang Zhou
{"title":"Dynamic impacts of urban expansion on vegetation growth in urban environments: A sustainable land management framework","authors":"Mingxing Liu , Qiaoling Luo , Rongjun Huang , Yangyi Wu , Junfang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban expansion and vegetation growth are two highly interlinked and potentially contradictory global sustainability challenges. Urban expansion directly and indirectly influences vegetation growth in urban environments, either contributing to its loss or promoting its enhancement. However, previous studies problematized the double impacts of urban expansion on vegetation growth at a specific time, ignoring the dynamic relationships and evolving thresholds of indirect impacts over time. Here, a novel three-dimensional (3D) conceptual framework was proposed to explain the dynamic relationships between urban expansion and vegetation growth across China’s urban agglomerations (UAs) from 2000 to 2021. The corresponding thresholds of indirect impacts of urban expansion on vegetation growth were also quantified. Double-S thresholds of vegetation growth responses to urban expansion were found over time, including urban expansion intensity (UEI) and vegetation index (VI) thresholds. These thresholds showed strong climate dependence across climate zones, with higher UEI thresholds in humid zones and lower VI thresholds in semi-arid zones. Human activities explained higher contributions than climate change in the variations in double-S thresholds of indirect impacts. Based on above analysis, a sustainable land management framework was proposed to promote land restoration by integrating the dynamic impacts and double-S thresholds of urban expansion on vegetation growth. Furthermore, zoning management strategies were provided for precision land restoration across climate zones, including reducing negative direct impacts and enhancing positive indirect impacts. Altogether, these findings provide valuable insights and policy implications for long-term sustainable land management amidst evolving global environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107541"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107539
Weixiang Xu , Jiaxin Guo , Jianping Zhou
{"title":"Impact of digital governance on the green utilization efficiency of urban land","authors":"Weixiang Xu , Jiaxin Guo , Jianping Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107539","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital governance has become a key means of improving the quality of urban governance, particularly the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Then, using panel data from 284 cities and exploiting the implementation of the ‘National Pilot for Information Benefiting the People’ policy, this study uses a double machine learning model to explore the impact of digital governance on the green utilization efficiency of urban land and underlying pathways. The results show that digital governance can significantly improve the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Moreover, this conclusion holds under several robustness and instrumental variable tests. Next, the results of the indirect effects test show that industrial specialisation agglomeration and entrepreneurial activity are the paths through which digital governance improves the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Finally, environmental concerns can positively regulate the impact of digital governance on the green utilization efficiency of urban land.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107539"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107532
Xian Liang , Tianyu Chen , Hui Xiao , Yi Xie
{"title":"The impact of human-elephant conflicts on farm households’ land lease behavior: The case of Yunnan Province, China","authors":"Xian Liang , Tianyu Chen , Hui Xiao , Yi Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107532","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107532","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, the persistent interactions between Asian elephants and agricultural communities have posed significant challenges to the livelihoods of farmers as well as the utilization of their land resources. This study analyzed whether and how the Human-Elephant Conflicts (HEC) affected the land lease behavior of the farm households using a sample of 915 farm households in 9 counties of Yunnan Province, China, in 2022. The Bivariate Probit model was used to explore the impact of HEC on the land lease in and land lease out of farm households. Four options were recognized in the Bivariate Probit model: no lease, sole lease in, sole lease out, and both lease in and lease out. The results show that: (1) The incidence of HEC signified a 25.40 % rise in sole lease out, and a 28.90 % rise in both lease in and lease out. (2) There was heterogeneity in the effect of HEC on farmers' land lease behavior. Farmers who live far away from nature reserves had a higher probability of leasing in (14.70 %) and leasing out their land (8.30 %) than farmers who live close to nature reserves. High-income farmers had a higher probability of leasing out (14.20 %) than low-income farmers; yet, they had a lower probability of leasing in (5.00 %). Small-scale land management farmers had a higher probability of leasing out land (6.70 %) than the large-scale land management group; yet, they had a lower probability of leasing in land (11.80 %). The results suggest that more focused strategies need to be adopted to help the local communities reduce the harm induced by HEC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107532"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}