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{"title":"How communities and social impacts are considered in policies for protected areas in China","authors":"Yuqi Zhang ,&nbsp;Frank Vanclay ,&nbsp;Philippe Hanna","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Protected areas are important for biodiversity conservation. However, they also create many social impacts on local communities, both negative and positive. The effectiveness of protected area management influences the environmental and social impacts that are created and the attitudes of local people towards conservation initiatives. Given the considerable awareness of the social impacts of protected areas around the world, in China there has now been growing interest in this topic, partly because China is a megadiverse country with over 11,800 protected areas. Based on a document analysis of official documents and a literature review of academic papers, we examine how Chinese policies and the Chinese academic literature consider social impacts and local communities in relation to protected areas. We found that the social impacts most discussed related to the income and livelihoods of local communities, while intangible social impacts, such as culture and the rights of local communities, were neglected or ignored. Negative social impacts were reported more frequently than benefits. The persistent lack of consideration of the potential role of local communities in the management of protected areas has resulted in communities generally being disengaged. We suggest that the role of local communities in protected areas should be further considered, and that community engagement and benefit-sharing arrangements should be improved.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107404"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651426","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}

{"title":"Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood","authors":"Dinko Hanaan Dinko ,&nbsp;Moses Kansanga ,&nbsp;Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong ,&nbsp;Isaac Luginaah","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106962","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106962","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fueled by surging demand in Asia, the exploitation of African rosewood (<em>Pterocarpus erinaceus</em>) has become a lucrative venture in sub-Saharan Africa that has sparked widespread resource conflicts over the last decade. While some of these conflicts have produced fatal outcomes, little is known about the nature of these conflicts and the underlying drivers. Drawing on empirical evidence from four communities in northern Ghana where African rosewood extraction is rife, this paper unpacks the drivers and dynamics of African rosewood conflicts. We find that violent conflicts over African rosewood exploitation are driven by negative othering, engrained power differences, and resource appropriation by external actors. These drivers are connected in complex ways to the flow of transnational capital and commodity chains beyond local politics. This paper contributes to the broader literature on natural resource conflicts, especially the ongoing debate on why resource conflicts turn violent. Given the potential for resource conflicts to contribute to unsustainable resource exploitation, environmental policy must pay attention to these multi-scalar dynamics and drivers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"136 ","pages":"Article 106962"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837723004283/pdfft?md5=657de3f93fcc88c33d0a76e172e202d3&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837723004283-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72365723","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}

{"title":"Relationship between sense of place and co-creation process: A systematic literature review","authors":"Lakshika Meetiyagoda ,&nbsp;P.K.S. Mahanama ,&nbsp;Astrid Ley ,&nbsp;Susantha Amarawickrama","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106961","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106961","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Co-creation has been embraced as a new participatory strategy for place-making. The reasons behind the agency that gets public participation for co-creation are not yet explored, but some research indicates sense of place is an intrinsic motivation for participation. Thus, this paper systematically explores whether the prevailing literature has revealed the relationship between sense of place and the co-creation process. Of the 1636 publications from 2002 to 2022, 75 were subjected to in-depth content analysis. However, only 22 articles indicate the relationship between sense of place and the co-creation process. Further, some studies empirically demonstrated that the sense of place has a positive role in the co-creation process and engagement in the co-creation process enhances the sense of place. As such the prevailing studies focus on non-urban, non-spatial and in the global north contexts, this systematic literature review depicts the lack of urban place-making-related research on the relationship from the global south.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"136 ","pages":"Article 106961"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837723004271/pdfft?md5=e47f3c3c74ec3b47dbbed6eda762a12c&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837723004271-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72365724","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}

{"title":"Reconstructing valley landscapes. GIS-analyses of past land use changes in three Flemish river valleys since the late 18th century","authors":"Eline Lathouwers ,&nbsp;Yves Segers ,&nbsp;Gert Verstraeten","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106960","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106960","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The restoration of riverine ecosystem services and floodplain landscapes has become an important tool in climate mitigation, however, it is often unclear what landscape a restoration is (or should be) referring to. Little is known moreover, about long-term transitions in historic valley land use or how they echo in contemporary perceptions of floodplain landscapes. Also in densely populated Flanders (in the north of Belgium), where floodplains are quickly losing their natural functions, policymakers are actively in pursuit of climate change adaptation strategies and sustainable valley management. We present the results of a GIS-based reconstruction of historical land use in three Flemish river valleys from 1771 to 2002 and compare them to changes in regional land use. We find that while grasslands initially and to a vast extent covered our selected floodplains, the latter were by the mid-19th century cultivated for agricultural production, in line with a global expansion of arable land and regional demographic growth. Also forest cover in the studied river valleys grew exponentially from the late 19th century, unmatched by regional forest cover. After the Second World War, a denser road network, more area that is built-up and forest plantations visually contributed to valley compartmentalisation and the perception of a closed landscape. Varying soil textures and drainage levels or the (in)ability to manage them properly accounted for different(ly) (timed) land use changes between the studied floodplain areas. Regional changes in historic land use were of lesser importance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 106960"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72365719","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":"Opportunities and limitations for Nature-Based Solutions in EU policies – Assessed with a focus on ponds and pondscapes","authors":"Simon Ryfisch ,&nbsp;Isabel Seeger ,&nbsp;Hugh McDonald ,&nbsp;Manuel Lago ,&nbsp;Malgorzata Blicharska","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106957","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106957","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are growing in popularity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, enhance biodiversity, and secure human well-being. However, the emergence of NBS has not generated equal attention for all ecosystems. One such neglected ecosystem are ponds and pondscapes (i.e. groups of ponds in a landscape), which are deteriorating in quality and diminishing in quantity. As the European Union (EU) is regarded as influential in the conceptualisation and operationalisation of NBS, we conducted a qualitative content analysis of 38 EU policies to identify opportunities and limitations for the implementation of ponds and pondscapes as NBS. We focus our analysis on ponds and pondscapes, but their prevalence in different landscapes and their multitude of benefits allows us to also make some inferences about the implications of the EU policy context for NBS at large. We find that EU policies strengthen NBS linked to existing and potential Natura 2000 sites, as well as to ecosystems protected through the EU’s Birds and Habitats Directives and Water Framework Directive. However, if ecosystems fall outside of these already established policies – as is the case with the vast majority of ponds and pondscapes – their implementation as NBS may be hampered. We also find that the EU emphasises natural water retention measures and carbon-rich ecosystems for climate change adaptation and mitigation, but mostly does not explicitly include ponds and pondscapes despite their potential contributions. Other findings are that the EU’s Horizon Europe research policy will likely influence which ecosystems will be used and financed as NBS, while the exact ambition and selection of NBS rests with lower-level authorities or individuals. Therefore, further studies tracing the impact of the supra-national EU policy framework at lower governance levels are vital.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 106957"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837723004234/pdfft?md5=81d709f719c2fe32bd13f24084262293&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837723004234-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72365720","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}

{"title":"Reciprocity principle and private property rights in land: Coasean world is neither neoclassical nor capitalist","authors":"Giorgos Meramveliotakis","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106965","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106965","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The “Coase theorem” states that in a zero-transaction cost neoclassical world society’s wealth is not affected by the allocation of liabilities rules. The “theorem” rests upon two fundamental premises: the first concerns Coase’s view of mutual causation of harm, namely the reciprocity principle, and the second refers to his understanding of private property as a bundle of use rights. However, when these two premises are specifically applied in cases of trespass to land, not only portray a blur picture of private property, but they also contradict the very nature of rights over property. Specifically, I am arguing that these two premises undermine the centrality of exclusion rights to the institution of land property, hence violate the <em>de jure</em> basis of these rights, as well their private nature. This is turn implies that Coasean world is a world where the prevalent idea of mutual causation of harm creates idiosyncratic and partial rather than standardized <em>de jure</em> private property rights in land. As such, this Coasean version of the world fundamentally breaks from the neoclassical view of the capitalist world, where the security and exercise of private property rights in land is a <em>sine qua non</em> condition for the working of the economic system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 106965"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435662","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":"Land politics and settlers’ responses to land tenure under threat in emerging peri-urban spaces in Zimbabwe","authors":"Johannes Bhanye ,&nbsp;Ruvimbo Hazel Shayamunda ,&nbsp;Rumbidzai Irene Mpahlo ,&nbsp;Abraham Matamanda ,&nbsp;Lameck Kachena","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106945","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106945","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drawing on the case study of Caledonia peri-urban settlement in Zimbabwe, this study presents the complex struggles and responses undertaken by settlers to assert their access, utilization, and rights to land for settlement. Employing qualitative methodologies including 50 in-depth interviews, participant observations, key informant interviews, and document analysis, the study reveals the lived experiences of vulnerable peri-urban settlers when faced with challenges posed by expanding local authorities and land acquisitions orchestrated by influential elites. Grounding our analysis in the theoretical framework of insurgent citizenship, this study challenges the notion of passive vulnerability among poor urbanites or settlers and illuminates their capacity to design protective mechanisms against threats to their land tenure. In the context of Caledonia, vulnerable settlers employed a range of strategies such as political rent-seeking, legal action, civil disobedience, and invoking religious symbolism to safeguard their land rights. Through these actions, we uncover a complex interplay between settlers’ agency and the emerging dynamics of authority, revealing not only the proliferation of competing claims but also the emergence of novel forms of power that shape access and control over coveted urban resources, particularly land. Given the complexities of land politics in Africa’s peri-urban, more studies will deepen understanding of dynamics shaping land access, privatisation, commodification and how such transformations are reconfiguring the political economy of peri-urban spaces.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 106945"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837723004118/pdfft?md5=2e591237c002611757560c49f9ee1143&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837723004118-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435665","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}

{"title":"Socio-ecological impact of forest legislations on forest and forest-people of Jhargram District, West Bengal","authors":"Krishna Pada Sahoo,&nbsp;Subhendu Ghosh,&nbsp;Sk Allarakha,&nbsp;Giyasuddin Siddique","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106940","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106940","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For thousands of years, the first settlers of the sub-continent anchored in the vast inland forest ecosystems. These first settlers are still surviving in different residual forest patches and are known as Aboriginals or tribal people. As a livelihood strategy, forest people used to tame the services of the forest ecosystem according to their needs while maintaining a narrow ecological balance. The traditional social, cultural, and religious practices and beliefs of the forest people were not devoid of the forest ecosystem. Secondary data on the overlapping of forest patches indicates their coexistence. The indigenous forest people of Jhargram district, those dependent on the services of forest ecosystems have been deeply affected by the forest policies implemented before and after India's independence. The expansion of government control over the forest resources for maximization of revenue, particularly in colonial times, paved the way to restrict forest people to access the benefits of forest ecosystem services. The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of various regulations on forest and forest-dependent tribal people in the Jhargram District of West Bengal. The discussion has revealed some specific impacts of the forest legislation, direct and indirect in nature, on their habitat, occupation, and social and nutritional conditions. These impacts have been assessed on the basis of primary data and information generated from the field and some certain indicators. Statistical and computational techniques have been used to assess various impact. The findings attest that the effects of such legislation are consequent more upon the habitat and livelihood of the tribal groups than the non-tribal human communities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 106940"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71417936","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":"Management of rented farmland in Norway: Factors impacting on tenants’ decisions to make investments","authors":"Kerstin Potthoff ,&nbsp;Wenche E. Dramstad","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106941","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106941","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Renting agricultural land is a common practice in many countries. The possibility to rent land provides farmers with increased flexibility in terms of production volume. Land renting may have various effects on farmland management; however, results from studies analysing these are ambivalent. Farmland in the best possible state is a prerequisite for following up ambitions of feeding a growing population through a sustainable agriculture. Decisions regarding investments on farmland are key. The aim of this study is to increase the understanding of which factors are the most important ones for farmers’ decisions about investments on land they rent. We carried out a questionnaire survey followed by a multiple linear regression considering 34 variables. Although variables included in our model come out as significant in explaining investments, a large part of the variation is left unexplained (R² = 0.22). Our interpretation of this result is that making investments is a complex decision. Non-economic factors impacting on farmers’ investment decisions such as trust or norms may contribute to the unexplained variation, but may only have been captured partly by our variables. Moreover, decisions regarding investments may not only vary among farmers but also among investments made by an individual farmer. The complex nature of the decisions on how to treat rented land makes it challenging for policymakers to develop measures targeted at farmers renting land. However, the finding that farmers are driving longer distances to rented land than they find acceptable deserves political attention. One potential policy implication may be strengthened incentives for land re-allotment. Re-allotment may address increasing distances and potential consequences such as reduced productivity and increased land abandonment. However, the sustainability of a re-allotment process needs to be considered carefully in terms of economic viability, ecological soundness and social responsibility.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 106941"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837723004076/pdfft?md5=edafa5926c47f7f2165c6efbfd24141b&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837723004076-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71436113","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}

{"title":"Values and representations in land registers and their legal, technical, social effects on land rights as an administrative artefact","authors":"Felicitas Sommer ,&nbsp;Walter Timo de Vries","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106946","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106946","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Improvements in land administration tend to focus on initiating or completing titling efforts. Yet, finding and monitoring inequality<span> and intransparency of land ownership<span> and of land tenure<span> is equally problematic. The central question is how land registration epitomizes and monitors the distribution of land rights, and if the administrative choices reinforce or hinder the insights into these aspects. The article reasons from a theoretical basis that land rights are socio-technical products of administrative procedures with inscribed concepts and visions of (desirable) farm structures. The analysis relies on an analysis of five specific cases of techno-administrative structures: land registration in combination with cadastres and trade registers; the administrative system of compensation after German unification; the management system controlling land transfers; the system of collecting agrarian statistics; the system of land market statistics. All represent sociotechnical constructs related to current authentic and public information repositories related to land, land rights and statistical data about land. All systems exhibit a very narrow thematic focus and extreme rigidity of system design and design choices. The construction and use of the systems depend on two historically persistent assumptions and </span></span></span></span>narratives<span>: land prices will always increase, and land is held by individual small farm holders. Both these visions and the systematic land information infrastructures conceal certain objects and dynamics, such as existing complex land ownership constellations and land use practices. Secondly, the data collection choices do not align with what land related policies require. </span></span>Agricultural statistics<span> are example following individual land ownership structures and ignoring private agglomerate ownership structures and dependencies. Consequently, the design of techno-administrative structures related to land lead to insufficient insights of land distribution and equality of land rights. The conclusion is therefore that the land related knowledge and information infrastructures need to be much more aligned with policy interventions and problem-oriented policy making. Currently they act as information silos and rely on outdated visions and assumptions. This requires however new models of land information organisation and governance.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 106946"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71417935","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}