Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107467
Zhenyan Lou, Xu Zhao, Cong Chen, Shengping Peng
{"title":"Rural revitalisation: Spatio-temporal evolution and multi-scenario prediction of ecosystem service values of second homes in Moudao, China","authors":"Zhenyan Lou, Xu Zhao, Cong Chen, Shengping Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107467","url":null,"abstract":"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 expansion, slight forest growth, and reductions in grassland and water bodies, causing fluctuating ESV trends and declining grassland and water service values. Ecosystem sensitivity to provisioning, regulation, and support services increased, signaling heightened vulnerability. Simulations revealed that natural development weakened ecological stability, while ecologically prioritized development enhanced forest and grassland values. The second-home scenario balanced ecological protection with human needs, improving overall ESV and promoting sustainability. These findings offer valuable insights for second-home planning and rural resource management strategies.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968136","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 : 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107466
Rong Tan, Rongyu Wang
{"title":"Archetype analysis of land governance: A systemism research paradigm","authors":"Rong Tan, Rongyu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107466","url":null,"abstract":"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 SES governance illustrate the structures, joint effects and underlying mechanisms through which natural, economic, political and social factors interact based on either classical theory or theoretical innovation. Thus, policy implications are proposed to leverage the leading factors and explore the context-specific conditions composed of multiple factors for institutional selection to govern the interconnections among land users, institutions and broad natural and socioeconomic environments of land use.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929297","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 : 2025-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107462
Lijing Wang, Lu Zhang, Yi Xiao, Lingqiao Kong, Zhiyun Ouyang
{"title":"Identifying suitable areas for cropland and urban development in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau","authors":"Lijing Wang, Lu Zhang, Yi Xiao, Lingqiao Kong, Zhiyun Ouyang","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107462","url":null,"abstract":"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 further. To resolve this conflict, ecosystem protection indicators, including protected area, ecological degradation, and the importance of ecosystem services, must be intertwined with cropland and urban land development. We identified suitable areas for cropland and urban within the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and then evaluated the potential impacts under four scenarios: ecological protection priority, balanced consideration, development area priority, and conventional scenario. Under the ecological protection priority scenario, the total suitable areas for cropland and urban are 16507.76 km<ce:sup loc=\"post\">2</ce:sup> and 3339.61 km<ce:sup loc=\"post\">2</ce:sup>, respectively, and their total area accounted for 0.69 % in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In addition, the loss of key ecosystem services is less than 3.33 % under the scenario, which is the smallest loss among all scenarios. Correspondingly, the grain yield and the gross regional product are expected to increase by 30.15 % and 88.88 %, respectively. This is especially notable as ecosystem services decreased by 8.01 %–16.30 % under the conventional scenario. Therefore, we recommend land development under the ecological protection priority scenario for the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Our research provides a reference for the sustainability of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929228","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 : 2024-12-31DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107464
Andreas Hengstermann, Linda McElduff, Heather Ritchie
{"title":"Capturing or compensating? Comparing legitimacies, legitimations and rationales of added value capture instruments","authors":"Andreas Hengstermann, Linda McElduff, Heather Ritchie","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107464","url":null,"abstract":"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 introduction and implementation of added value capture depends on the rationale during the process of legitimation. Acceptance of the added value capture instrument is higher if it is justified with pragmatic rationales; capturing it for the ‘greater good’, such as financing local social infrastructure. Conversely, if justice-based rationales are referred to (compensating the “unearned increment”), acceptance is lower, as the direct added value for the public is not as apparent. The existence and application of the instrument therefore depends on the rationale, making the analysis of legitimising arguments interesting, even to countries that have not (yet) introduced the instrument. However, studies on legitimacies, legitimations and rationales are rare, and are not adequately considered in existing literature reviews. This paper identifies rationale patterns across different legal traditions. Switzerland and the UK are selected as two countries with different planning systems, but both have experience with added value capture instruments. Discourse analysis is used to analyse key documents at the time of policy change, to determine how the instrument used in each country is officially legitimised and the extent of variation across the different legal traditions.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929229","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 : 2024-12-29DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107458
Soumya Balasubramanya, Kashi Kafle
{"title":"Adoption of land restoration activities in Ethiopia: Understanding gender-labor dimensions","authors":"Soumya Balasubramanya, Kashi Kafle","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107458","url":null,"abstract":"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, which is regarded to be an important enabling factor for restoring private agricultural land. We use three panels of Living Standard Measurement Study – Integrated Survey in Agriculture (LSMS—ISA) data between 2010 and 2016 and employ panel data estimators to provide a correlational understanding of the role of male and female labor in the adoption of LRA. We also estimate these relationships for sub-samples of male-headed and female-headed households—to examine heterogeneity in the gender-labor dimensions. Controlling for tenure security, the probability of adopting LRA is significantly higher when agricultural households have greater person-days of female household and female non-household labor. This holds for all both sub-samples of households. The area of land under LRA is positively and significantly most responsive to person-days of female non-household labor in all four types of households as well. Female non-household labor has been critical for increasing the adoption of LRA on private lands of rural households in Ethiopia in recent years. In a context with high incidence of tenure security, the results make a case for continued support towards LRA adoption with a specific focus on reducing labor shortages and drudgery.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889328","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 : 2024-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107459
Shine Dela-Edem Wormenor, Michael Osei Asibey
{"title":"Digital technologies for climate-induced disaster risk reduction and management in Ghana: Applicability and operational challenges","authors":"Shine Dela-Edem Wormenor, Michael Osei Asibey","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107459","url":null,"abstract":"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 with using DTs in disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) efforts in building resilient cities. Adopting a qualitative research approach, data were gathered through interviews with eight purposively selected national disaster-relevant agencies. It was found that Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) were predominantly used along the three major stages of DRRM. Barriers such as poor internet connectivity, susceptibility to cyberattacks, power outages, financial constraints, low technical expertise and training, and absence of institutional dedication to the existing framework for the use of DTs in DRRM interventions, among others, were however mentioned to impede the safety, the comfortability, dependability, user-friendliness and communicative use of the technologies for DRRM efforts in urban Ghana. The study concludes that due to rapid urbanization and rising intensity in the occurrence and impacts of disasters, prioritizing the development of resilient cities through emphasizing the necessity of digital technologies is paramount.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889331","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 : 2024-12-21DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107454
Anahita Azadgar, Giulia Luciani, Lucyna Nyka
{"title":"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","authors":"Anahita Azadgar, Giulia Luciani, Lucyna Nyka","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107454","url":null,"abstract":"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 to resource-intensive and environmentally harmful grey infrastructure. However, their benefits are often unevenly distributed, resulting in patterns of environmental injustice. This article presents a GIS-based study of the spatial allocation of publicly accessible NbS (PNbS), in Gdansk, Poland, and Rome, Italy. It aims at assessing possible correlations between the socio-economic attributes of the urban districts of the two cities and the density of available PNbS in each district. Results indicate disparities in density of PNbS across different socio-economic layers, more relevant in Rome than in Gdansk, and highlight the importance of informed urban planning. The study supports concerns for fair NbS distribution, pointing to the potential exacerbation of social and economic inequalities, which puts socially vulnerable communities at higher risk of being affected by climate hazards. The results provide insights for policymakers, urging a prioritized focus on districts with crucial PNbS needs. Strategies should consider socio-economic factors to address distributive and environmental justice concerns. Overall, the study offers insights to guide urban planning toward climate-resilient and inclusive cities.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873965","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 : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107452
Martin Pelucha, Alexander Shemetev
{"title":"Unravelling the link between land use policy and digital infrastructure: Insights from Czech rural communities","authors":"Martin Pelucha, Alexander Shemetev","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107452","url":null,"abstract":"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 modelling, we uncover the complex dynamics that shape rural landscapes, revealing a nuanced relationship between land use decisions and digitalisation. Our findings show that the preservation of agricultural land can act as a catalyst for access to digital resources, while policies that encourage abandonment can hinder technological progress. This research contributes to a better understanding of rural development dynamics and highlights the importance of comprehensive methods to land use policy formulation in the digital age. Our study calls for greater attention to the economic, social and environmental impacts of land use decisions, and urges policy makers to consider the implications for access to digital resources and sustainable development. Despite similarities in pre-treatment quality of life indicators, the treated group, which initially had better internet access, experienced a decline in connectivity after minor treatment. Taking control on potential biases such as pre-selection and endogeneity, our study highlights the need for future research to investigate different intensities of land abandonment policies and the wider impacts of internet access on rural economies and communities, particularly in heterogeneous rural regions.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873969","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 : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107435
Denis Dobrynin, Alexander Vorbrugg, Teppo Hujala
{"title":"Forestry on abandoned agricultural land: Future options for Russia","authors":"Denis Dobrynin, Alexander Vorbrugg, Teppo Hujala","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107435","url":null,"abstract":"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 are informal and unregulated since no legal land category allows landowners to engage in forestry. Environmental NGOs and forest experts advocate for silviculture on abandoned farmland as an alternative to ‘wood mining’ in primary wild forests. In contrast, pro-agrarian policymakers and state actors resist this idea by discussing recultivation, national food security, and state land control. The future management of Russia’s abandoned farmland has potential global environmental and economic impacts, yet it remains understudied. This study aims to understand (1) what future options for forest management on abandoned farmland are plausible in Russia, how they compare to those in other countries, and (2) how experts justify the preferability and likelihood of these future options. The study is based on the Delphi approach: two rounds of anonymous expert evaluation with controlled feedback. We identified seven future management alternatives: business as usual, agricultural recultivation, carbon forest management, and four forest management options. The most preferable options include private forestry: small-scale forestry managed by private landowners and large-scale industrial forestry managed by companies. The least preferable option is the most probable: business as usual – informal and unregulated forests on unused, abandoned farmland. No option was assessed as highly preferable and highly probable. Using the Russian example, we conclude that abandoned farmland use policies may consider forestry a future management option. However, opening abandoned farmlands to forestry may encounter legal and institutional barriers and cause controversy.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873964","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 : 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107436
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
{"title":"Enhancing land management policy in Bangladesh: A blockchain-based framework for transparent and efficient land management","authors":"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","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107436","url":null,"abstract":"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 layer, IoT layer, and integration layer. These layers automate processes such as land sales, ownership verification, and real-time monitoring, reducing manual intervention and minimizing opportunities for fraudulent activities. The study combines a detailed review of existing challenges and technological solutions with an assessment of the system’s performance based on metrics like transaction speed, resource consumption, and cost efficiency. Findings indicate that the framework enhances transparency, reduces corruption, and improves efficiency in land management, aligning with international best practices. Additionally, the discussion highlights the importance of integrating off-chain solutions to manage transaction costs and emphasizes the need for legal and regulatory adaptation for the successful implementation of blockchain technology. A phased implementation strategy begins with local community engagement and scales to broader oversight, aiming for a sustainable and effective approach to land governance.","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873966","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}