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{"title":"Spatial rationalization of location value and use conversion cost in multiobjective land use optimization: Coupling hedonics pricing model and genetic algorithm","authors":"Ashenafi Mehari ,&nbsp;Paolo Vincenzo Genovese","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107694","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107694","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study critiques global-based land use optimization methods and introduces a spatially rationalized framework to address their limitations. Global optimization often oversimplifies land value changes and use conversion costs by relying on averaged data, leading to unrealistic projections and inefficiencies. By contrast, the proposed spatial rationalization optimization framework integrates NSGA-II with a Ricardian-hedonic valuation model, providing a more accurate representation of local dynamics. Results of a case study, Mek’ele City in Ethiopia, illustrates that the global optimization outputs false signals on location value and use conversion cost whose policy implications are serious. The global optimization version false signals the land use conversion cost is 390.9 per square meter while the spatial rationalization version indicates the net change is a gain of 11.8. The spatial rationalization also maintains more areas with their original use indicating lower fiscal effect of implementing the optimal plan. The spatial allocation of uses aligns more closely with real-world conditions and enhances the effectiveness of land valuation strategies, such as land value capture. The findings highlight the need for spatially informed optimization in land use planning, advocating for policies that reflect true value changes and improve implementation accuracy. The study’s insights emphasize the importance of moving beyond global optimization frameworks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107694"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144611629","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}

{"title":"Enhancing natural habitats conservation success on private lands by understanding and addressing deficiencies in social capital","authors":"Louis Tanguay ,&nbsp;Jean-François Bissonnette ,&nbsp;Sophie Calmé ,&nbsp;Konstantia Koutouki ,&nbsp;Katrine Turgeon","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107687","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107687","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the last decades, biodiversity conservation in Quebec province, Canada, has evolved from an ecology-centered discipline, mostly focused on ecosystem protection on public lands (e.g., protected areas and reserves), to an interdisciplinary field with increasing participatory efforts deployed to preserve private lands' habitats. Yet, conservation on private lands has experienced mixed results, notably because of limits regarding the creation of positive relationships to support community capacity to conserve through landowner engagement. It has proven difficult to integrate social knowledge and realities in the governance of conservation and to act on social-ecological issues to reach conservation objectives. In this paper, we study how social relationships shape conservation governance, and we illustrate the opportunities that these relationships offer and the limits that they impose. To do so, we explore social representations of social issues in conservation as perceived by actors and expressed during three participative workshops, carried out with a diverse array of actors in 2019 and 2020. We analyze our data through the concept of social capital to depict relationships through four dimensions (structural, functional, relational, cognitive). We find that social capital that supports landowner engagement and community capacity to conserve suffers from four forms of deficiencies. These are negative social capital, diverging social representations, dissociated social capital dimensions and sub-optimized social capital. These deficiencies are most prominent in relationships that link local actors to the provincial government, followed by relationships between municipal actors and other regional actors. We argue that bracing social capital through efforts that tackle all four dimensions at once might be the key to enhancing social connectivity in conservation governance. We conclude by identifying three broad needs for bracing social capital to improve conservation governance on private lands. These are 1) growing a shared understanding of conservation challenges through improved communication venues, 2) establishing feedback systems between local actors and decision-makers to encourage reciprocity in relationships, and 3) developing systemic knowledge to better inform conservation actions and avoid false solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107687"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144605497","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}

{"title":"A commentary on Feistauer and Wisbey’s (2024) research on the pre-history of a Chinese fort: Unmasking the Kowloon Walled City as a structure on a palimpsest or greenfield site","authors":"Stephen N.G. Davies ,&nbsp;Lawrence Wai Chung Lai","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This commentary reviews the work on the Kowloon Walled City by Feistauer and Wisbey (2024). The key idea is that the original Kowloon Walled City, precisely because it has long been destroyed, can only be a palimpsest, understood as a built area that has been reused or altered but still bears visible traces of its earlier form. The approach of the critical review is to indicate that such institutional devices as sketches and maps can shed light on the need for investigating such an architectural palimpsest but, as a matter of conservation policy, need to be accurately used.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107686"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144605498","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}

{"title":"Contested rent-based urban governance: Land rent dissipation and redistribution under scalar politics in China","authors":"Jiayao Liu ,&nbsp;Jin Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107692","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107692","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the recent resurgence of land rent theory in political economy, its application to China’s urban governance, characterised by a land-based development model, remains underexplored. This study introduces the concept of land rent capture, which highlights the rentier nature of the local state, to examine territorial contestation among China’s multi-level local governments and its broader implications. The theoretical framework we propose links rent-based urban governance – the strategic use of land rent to finance urban development – with scalar politics, positing that competition over land rent has become a crucial dimension of intergovernmental struggles at the local level. Using a mixed-methods approach that includes in-depth interviews, archival research, and statistical analysis, our case study of Zhongshan investigates the operation and distribution of land rent and its historical interplay with inner-city power dynamics during the post-reform era. The findings reveal that implicit land rent distribution prompted rent-seeking by discretionary lower-level governments, resulting in a developmental crisis and rent dissipation. In response, a scalar restructuring process was initiated to redistribute land rent among government tiers for more efficient rent operation, although these efforts are impaired by entrenched rent dissipation and the real estate downturn. Theoretically, this study contributes to understanding the role of land rent in shaping scalar relationships within China’s cities. Practically, it highlights scalar restructuring as an interim strategy for cities with low-rent land markets but critiques the long-term viability of rent-based governance due to the inevitable dissipation of land rents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107692"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144595594","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}

{"title":"Does city-county consolidation lead to regional integration of the housing market? Evidence from China","authors":"Liyuan Cui ,&nbsp;Yujuan Hou ,&nbsp;Huayi Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107682","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107682","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>City-county consolidation is a common approach in metropolitan reorganization. This study examines its impact on the regional integration of the housing market in China through theoretical analysis and empirical evidence. Using a general equilibrium framework, we identify key mechanisms—economic and demographic agglomeration, and land supply—through which consolidation affects the housing market. Empirical analysis of city and district/county level data reveals that: (i) Consolidation increases land supply while having minimal impact on wages and population, resulting in a 4.9 % decrease in housing prices in consolidated cities. (ii) Housing prices increase by 3.1 % in previous county jurisdictions but decrease by 8.9 % in previous city jurisdictions. (iii) The negative effect is more pronounced in both prefecture-level and small cities. (iv) Economic and demographic agglomeration alongside land supply changes is the mechanism underlying these housing price dynamics. Our findings offer implications for administrative division adjustments and housing market stabilization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107682"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144596626","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}

{"title":"Can liberalizing rural construction land mitigate industrial land price distortion of China? An institutional logics perspective","authors":"Guangyu Cheng ,&nbsp;Wenwen Zhang ,&nbsp;Kwong Wing Chau","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107693","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107693","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China's local governments widely suppress industrial land prices. They follow a state-dominated logic in industrial land transfers, prioritizing promoting jurisdictional economies over obtaining immediate land returns. Drawing on the institutional logics perspective, this study explores whether the liberalization reform on rural construction land can be the potential solution to mitigating industrial land price distortion led by government interventions. This reform allows rural collectives to engage in industrial land supply, reducing governments' monopoly and shifting their attentional focus from economic stimulation to market efficiency. Using the Difference-in-Differences method, we analyze industrial land transaction records from 255 county-level units in the Yangtze River Delta between 2012 and 2019. Research findings show that pilot counties implementing the reform experience a 6.9 % increase in industrial land prices compared to non-pilot ones. This price increase reflects a shift in local governments’ industrial land transfer strategies toward a more market-oriented logic. Further analysis shows that the positive effects are more pronounced in counties and county-level cities than in districts, as well as in economically developed areas compared to less developed ones. This study sheds new lights on the policy effects of liberalization land reforms in transition economies, interpreted through the institutional logics perspective.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107693"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144588153","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}

{"title":"The geography of forest management","authors":"Krista Merry,&nbsp;Pete Bettinger","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107691","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107691","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A review of forest management plans, regulations, best management practices, and certification standards from across the United States and organizational types was conducted to identify the use of geographic principles in forest management activities. Specifically, the focus was on the concepts of area, distance and proximity, direction and orientation, elevation, connectivity, and adjacency, and how these may guide or relate to forest management activities. The review involved examining materials developed by federal, state, and local agencies, private landowners, non-governmental organizations, industry, and others, and focused on unique uses of geographic concepts in forest management across the United States. Geography is not only an important part of a person’s understanding and sense of place but is intertwined with management decision making and the regulation of multiple aspects of a forest. We argue that a geographic mindset is not only part of a person’s experience of a place but also acts as a basis for the management of forests and natural resources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107691"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144595593","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}

{"title":"Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation in urban areas: A Norwegian planning perspective","authors":"Mina D. Marino ,&nbsp;Ingvild Skumlien Furuseth ,&nbsp;Caroline Enge ,&nbsp;Gunnhild Storbekkrønning Solli ,&nbsp;Line J. Barkved","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107678","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107678","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years scholars and policy makers have recognized nature-based solutions (NBS) as key tools to address climate change adaptation and mitigation, and to support vital ecosystem services and biodiversity. Despite the rise and active promotion of NBS in international and local debates, relatively little is known about what has been effectively done (and not yet done) in terms of integrating NBS at the various levels of urban planning – from planning strategies to zoning plans. Firstly, the study discusses the evolving conceptualization of NBS, challenges and opportunities in implementing NBS in urban planning practices related to climate change adaptation, as well as the prevalence of NBS approaches in international and Norwegian policies. Secondly, the study presents the main outcomes from a multiple-case analysis of four selected Norwegian municipalities. A planning document analysis – encompassing all levels of municipal planning (from strategic to regulatory levels), focus groups and interviews with the municipal practitioners, as well as two final workshops were conducted. The main findings reveal that the selected municipalities have acknowledged the relevance and need for NBS to tackle climate change. In the planning strategies investigated, particular types of NBS are listed to contribute to ecosystem restoration, flood protection and water retention, as well as soil restoration and heat regulation. The area zoning and detailed zoning plans show some provisions and guidelines for the effective implementation of NBS. Nonetheless, some barriers remain in implementing NBS in planning practices and on the ground, namely understanding of the concept itself among practitioners and local private actors, and uncertainties related to the maintenance of NBS. The study contributes to the current debate on the implementation and upscaling of NBS to further address climate, biodiversity and water in municipal planning practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107678"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571945","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}

{"title":"Understanding the socioeconomic and environmental drivers of agricultural land conversion in Babol County, Northern Iran: Implications for sustainable land use policies","authors":"Abed Ghasemnejad ,&nbsp;Korous Khoshbakht ,&nbsp;Hossein Mahmoudi ,&nbsp;Romina Sayahnia","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107651","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107651","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A major problem of the twenty-first century is agricultural land conversion (ALC), which has occurred over the past five decades as a result of human activity. ALC leads to some economic, social, managerial, and environmental challenges and is strongly linked to food security and environmental sustainability. The ALC in northern Iran is a significant process that strains the social structures of the area. Therefore, this study focused on identifying the drivers of ALC in the county of Babol in northern Iran. After a comprehensive literature study, a questionnaire was designed and data were collected using a face-to-face survey method from 200 randomly- selected farmers. The results showed that farmers found the main drivers of ALC to be fragmentation of agricultural land, increase in the average age and aging of farmers, difficulty of fair access to government and banking facilities and resources, and the non-participation of farmers in policymaking and planning. Based on the SEM method, the most common drivers of ALC were turning land from production input into a profitable commodity, the role of owners of second homes in the village and encouraging residents to change their use, a lack of coordination between government institutions to preserve land and prevent the change of agricultural land use, and climate change and drought in other regions of the country. Therefore, implementing stricter laws to prevent the fragmentation of agricultural land, strengthening the financial resources of villagers, and developing policies to control rural-to-urban migration can play an important role in controlling ALC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107651"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144570162","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}

{"title":"The impact of non-farm employment on the stable land contracting willingness of farm households: Evidence from rural China","authors":"Ruisheng Li ,&nbsp;Huan Wang ,&nbsp;Yichao Li ,&nbsp;Dingde Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107688","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107688","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines whether off-farm employment can enhance farm households' willingness to retain their current land contract rights, particularly as the second round of land contracting approaches its conclusion. The study yields three findings: (1) About 55 % of farmers expressed their desire to keep the current land contracting arrangements, suggesting that a significant number of farmers still wish to adjust their land once the second round of land contracting expires. (2) Non-farm employment within farm households significantly boosts their willingness to stabilize the current land contract relationship. Agricultural labor inputs and land security functions serve as intermediaries in this regard. (3) The likelihood of maintaining stable land contractual relationships through non-farm employment is constrained by improvements in the land transfer and agricultural socialized services market. In regions with limited land transfer and undeveloped agricultural socialized service markets, the influence of non-farm employment on farm households' desire to establish stable contracting ties is more pronounced. Based on these findings, the following conclusions and recommendations are made: (1) During the implementation of policies aimed at stabilizing contracting rights, it is crucial to maximize the satisfaction of the majority of farm households' willingness to maintain contracting relationships. Additionally, the objective land transfer needs of some farm households should be fully respected, and the land rights and interests of various types of farm households should be safeguarded. (2) Non-farm employment offers a potential solution to the tension between the government's goal of stabilizing contractual relationships and farm households' desire for land transfer. By increasing non-farm employment opportunities in rural areas, it becomes feasible to facilitate the migration of agricultural laborers and reinforce their commitment to fulfilling current contractual obligations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 107688"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571025","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}