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{"title":"Land rights, resource allocation and urban settlement choices of migrant workers in Yunnan, Western China","authors":"Youqing Fan ,&nbsp;Mengtao Gao ,&nbsp;Lanlan Bi ,&nbsp;Chyi Lin Lee ,&nbsp;Guangbo Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107411","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107411","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using the cross-sectional data from the 2015 and 2021 <em>Yunnan Migrant Workers Urban Integration Survey</em>, this study assesses the different effects of the three types of land rights that migrant workers possess in their rural hometowns on their urban settlement choices in Yunnan, western China. Specifically, it examined the existence of migrant workers moving between urban and rural areas in response to the importance of land rights for rural migrant workers, in western China, a region with the lower level of economic development and fastest growing number of migrant workers in China. After controlling for the impact of other variables, the multinomial Probit model was used to estimate the impact of the migrant workers' land rights in their rural hometowns on their settlement choices in urban areas. We found that rural land rights significantly increased migrant workers' willingness to return to their hometowns. This indicates that land right security is a key factor affecting Yunnan migrant workers' urban settlement intentions, although it is conditional in terms of age groups and places of origin. Importantly, we found that migrant workers in western China are more inclined to keep their dual identities as both urban migrant workers and rural residents. They, hence, are more inclined to rationally allocate their resources between urban and rural areas to maximize their economic outputs. Particularly, they prefer to only working - rather than settling - in urban areas, while retaining their rural land as assets and income sources. Instead of settling in either urban or rural areas, the older migrant workers who migrate to smaller and economically underdeveloped cities are more inclined to drift between urban and rural areas without permanent settlement. This confirms the argument of livelihood resource maximization and migratory bird-type migration as important mechanisms via which land right ownership affects migrant workers’ urban settlement intentions. This study suggests that policymakers should consider the land rights of rural migrant workers when making urban settlement policies, especially for small and medium-sized cities, where migrant settlement intention is weaker. Policymakers should also promote the flexibility of rural land use rights transfer and explore reforms concerning the separation of the three types of land rights to achieve a balance between urbanization and land use efficiency, particularly in small and medium-sized cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107411"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651429","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":"Toward tenure security: The relationship between women's land ownership, formal land title documents and their empowerment","authors":"Imaneh Goli ,&nbsp;Masoud Bijani ,&nbsp;Pourya Kabir Koohi ,&nbsp;Rytis Skominas ,&nbsp;Rando Värnik ,&nbsp;Steven Van Passel ,&nbsp;Thomas Dogot ,&nbsp;Hossein Azadi","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107389","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107389","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Respect for land rights for women, as a key strategy to promote their development and empowerment as well as improving their welfare, has been considered in today's societies. However, there have been few empirical studies to back up this statement. Therefore, the primary goal of this research was to find out whether or not women may increase their authority through economic tenure security, legal tenure security, household characteristic, or de facto tenure security. In this regard, the survey data collected in 2021 from 28 villages of Mazandaran province (Northern Iran) were analyzed. The study highlights the significance of de facto tenure security as the most crucial among the four qualities assessed. It's important to note, however, that possessing land titles doesn't necessarily guarantee de facto tenure security. Despite this distinction, the study reveals a meaningful correlation, suggesting that women with land titles are more likely to experience higher levels of empowerment. Official certification, resolution of tenure disputes, increased agricultural income, and the impact of regional urbanization all play an important role in empowering rural women, which usually results in better economic outcomes for them. According to the results, it is evident that the legal registration of women's land ownership correlates with enhanced women's empowerment within rural communities. Land ownership provides women with the means to generate income, make independent choices, and actively participate in various aspects of social and economic life. The findings of this study underscore potential shortcomings in gender neutrality within land interventions, emphasizing the necessity for incorporating gender considerations into research and land-use planning. The practitioners and policy-makers may utilize the study's findings to invest in programs that include components of land tenure security and increase women's economic empowerment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107389"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651428","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":"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":"The influence of land use planning and exposure to flooding on urban growth in San José, Costa Rica","authors":"Eduardo Pérez-Molina ,&nbsp;Rosendo Pujol-Mesalles ,&nbsp;Jonathan Aguero-Valverde ,&nbsp;Félix Zumbado-Morales","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107407","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We estimate areas of potential flooding exposure within the San José Metropolitan Region with morphometric methods. Based on this potential hazard zoning, we use a spatial-statistical model to explore the difference introduced by land use regulations (municipal and regional) on urban growth, controlling for potential exposure to hazards and other sources of spatial heterogeneity. The potential flood zoning derived coincided with upstream rivers and flat areas between them (likely susceptible to urban drainage capacity problems). We estimated regional land use regulations significantly constrain urban development (with urban growth reductions of about 6 %), but the constraint does not increase in areas exposed to potential flooding; municipal environmental protection zoning was estimated to decrease urban development by 8 %, with an additional but very small 0.1–0.9 % reduction in potential flooding areas. Regional instruments fundamentally applied to the steeper (and hence less exposed to flooding) periphery whereas municipal land use instruments did constrain land from development (especially along rivers) within urban areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107407"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142586167","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":"What is the “best” way to measure the relative location variables in the market value assessment? An econometric method applied to an Italian case study","authors":"Aurora Ruggeri ,&nbsp;Felicia Di Liddo ,&nbsp;Laura Gabrielli ,&nbsp;Francesco Tajani ,&nbsp;Pierluigi Morano","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present research is dedicated to investigating the explanatory power of relative location variables in assessing and forecasting market values. Here, relative location refers to the spatial position (geographical context) of a building or property in relation to a given Point Of Interest (POI). Specifically, a methodological approach is proposed for identifying the most suitable quantification modality based on statistical performance and consistency with the market mechanisms of the specific reference context. For a case study in Northern Italy, we collected data on 615 residential properties and 2673 POIs, including cultural facilities, school and education institutions, commercial services, sports, entertainment, and leisure facilities, health and care services, public transport systems, urban parks, and green areas. The relative location between the collected properties and the POIs is assessed using an automated calculation procedure developed in the Python programming language, in conjunction with Geographic Information Software (GIS). This automatism allows the assessment of relative location in terms of different Units Of Measure (UOM), such as straight-line distance, travel time by car, travel time on foot, travel time by public transport, and the number of POIs in a 400 m/1 km ring buffer. Since 615 residential buildings and 2673 POIs were analysed, with their relative locations measured using six different UOMs, a database of 9'865'215 data was produced. Furthermore, for each category of POI, a feature importance analysis guides the selection of the best UOM, i.e., the most statistically significant one. Considering the chosen UOM, an optimised econometric technique is finally implemented to analyse the functional relationships between the market values of residential properties and the set of identified relative location variables.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107405"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142573559","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":"Multidimensional deconstruction and workable solutions for addressing China's food security issues: From the perspective of sustainable diets","authors":"Xiaohua Zhu ,&nbsp;Yan Zhang ,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Zhu ,&nbsp;Yurui Li ,&nbsp;Jiaxing Cui ,&nbsp;Bohua Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ensuring China’s food security is crucial for global sustainable development. Here, we analyzed the evolution of grain structure and cultivated land required for Chinese dietary structure, assessed the level of food self-sufficiency in China based on the comparison of the existing cultivated land and the cultivated land required for food, and predicted China's future food self-sufficiency rate across various scenarios. The results showed that China has achieved \"basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute security in rations\". The supply structure has evolved from relying solely on rations to a combination of rations and feed grains. The evolution of Chinese diet from 1987 to 2021 has led to the demand for feed grains reaching twice that of rations. The cultivated land needed to support Chinese diet expanded from 99.44Mha to 159.66Mha, surpassing the current cultivated land in China. If current trends continue, China’s cultivated land will not be sufficient to feed Chinese by 2035. Fortunately, we estimated that adjusting the Chinese dietary structure to sustainable diets that are culturally acceptable and affordable could enable China to achieve food self-sufficiency without imports by 2035. Therefore, we argue that China's food security issue primarily stems from an imbalance between supply and demand, driven by a misalignment between production strategies and consumption patterns. Moving forward, we advocate the efforts should be made to address food security issues through protection of cultivated land, proper imports and promotion of sustainable diets, holding the rice bowl of the Chinese people in their own hands firmly, which is a great contribution to the world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107401"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142551958","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 high-speed rail improve agricultural land use in China’s counties? From the perspective of dynamic network two-stage model","authors":"Juan Lu ,&nbsp;He Li","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107403","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107403","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Low <em>agricultural land use efficiency (ALE)</em> is an important issue that restricts agricultural economy. This study explores the impact of high-speed rail (HSR) on ALE in China’s counties. Calculate ALE based on <em>a two-stage dynamic network model with shared inputs</em>, and analyze the impact of HSR on ALE in the production stage and benefit transformation stage. Results show that: (1) HSR can promote ALE, and has a higher promoting effect on ALE in the benefit conversion stage. (2) Characteristics of HSR (including <em>HSR speed, commuting frequency, and irreplaceability</em>) as well as the characteristics of HSR stations (including <em>the number of HSR stations, location advantages, and floor area</em>) all show a positive correlation with ALE. (3) In the production stage, HSR reduces ALE by accelerating non-agricultural employment, and promotes ALE by improving agricultural technological innovation; In the benefit transformation stage, HSR promotes ALE by improving the development of rural e-commerce and agricultural product processing industry. (4) HSR has a higher promoting effect on ALE in major grain producing areas, western regions, and poverty-stricken counties. (5) HSR shows inter-regional spillover and intra-regional spillover effects. On the one hand, HSR will drive ALE in counties with a radius less than 20 km; on the other hand, HSR will also drive ALE in neighboring counties within 30 km. This study provides macro implications in transportation infrastructure construction for improving ALE.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107403"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555538","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 urban-rural residents’ life quality gap on the cultivated land transfer","authors":"Weiwen Wang ,&nbsp;Yang Shen ,&nbsp;Jiajun Qiao ,&nbsp;Ying Wang ,&nbsp;Lochan Kumar Batala ,&nbsp;Jie Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultivated land transfer serves as an efficient way to mitigate the escalating issue of cultivated land abandonment due to labor migration driven by the urban-rural gap, while also ensuring national food security. Nevertheless, the impact of how urban-rural resident’ life quality gap (RLQG) affect cultivated land transfer decision-making remains unclear. This study developed a theoretical framework that links urban-rural RLQG and cultivated land transfer and empirically investigated the causal relationships between these variables using a nationally representative dataset from China and employing the Random Forest method. Additionally, the heterogeneity of the impact across different geomorphic regions was also explored. The results indicate that disparities in economic conditions (e.g., cash deposits, durable goods, consumer expenditure, etc.) between urban and rural areas significantly impact cultivated land transfer decision-making, particularly in plain regions. To promote cultivated land transfer, the hilly regions should prioritize the reduction of the employment service gap, while the disparity in education and health levels in the mountain regions plays a leading role. Furthermore, the cultivated land transfer can be facilitated when the urban-rural residents’ life quality equalizes or RLQG widens sufficiently. Therefore, this study emphasizes the importance of considering the regional socio-economic environment difference caused by geomorphic variations when formulating policies aimed at narrowing the urban-rural RLQG and promoting cultivated land transfer. Furthermore, policy-makers may redirect focus towards alternative indicators for balancing urban-rural RLQG and cultivated land transfers in cases where a particular indicator proves ineffective.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107402"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555535","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 cropland transfer on rural household income in China: The moderating effects of education","authors":"Xiangyu Ji ,&nbsp;Yiting Wang ,&nbsp;Lei Yang ,&nbsp;Chun Li ,&nbsp;Liding Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107399","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cropland transfer as one of the mainstream measures has been implemented for over two decades in China to enhance land productivity and resource use efficiency. Despite the widely demonstrated benefits of cropland transfer on household income, the role of education in improving household income through cropland transfer remains unclear. This study investigates the impacts of cropland transfer on household income and further explores the moderating effects of education on these effects by using panel data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) with a two-way fixed effect model. We show that cropland transfer has increased rural household income. Cropland transfer-in increases both on-farm and off-farm income for households, while cropland transfer-out reduces on-farm income and increases off-farm income for households. Education moderates the effects of cropland transfer on rural household income. In the case of cropland transfer-in, education positively moderates the impact on household income, particularly enhancing on-farm income. In comparison, households with better-education demonstrate a negative contribution to increasing off-farm and total income through cropland transfer-out. The moderating effects of education on the contribution of cropland transfer to improve household income has a tipping point. This study offers decision makers valuable insights for improving household income and facilitating rural revitalization in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107399"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142527058","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 measurement of agricultural disaster vulnerability in China and implications for land-supported agricultural resilience building","authors":"Yuheng Li ,&nbsp;Guangya Gao ,&nbsp;Jiuyao Wen ,&nbsp;Ning Zhao ,&nbsp;Guoming Du ,&nbsp;Monika Stanny","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107400","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change has recently induced an increase in natural disasters worldwide, which has affected agriculture, a sector highly sensitive to climatic alterations. The paper measures agricultural disaster vulnerability of China in the period 2000–2020 by establishing vulnerability assessment system, and examines how agricultural infrastructure correlates with agricultural disaster vulnerability by constructing grey relational analysis model. Research results indicate that China's agricultural disaster vulnerability presents an overall decreasing trend during the research period. This is mainly attributed to the decreased disaster exposure and increased adaptability to disaster. Spatially, the agricultural disaster vulnerability in the northeastern, central and southwestern regions of China is higher than other regions. Agricultural transportation and communication infrastructure are found to be more influential to agricultural disaster vulnerability followed by irrigation and power facilities. Implications are proposed to enhance agricultural resilience to climate disasters in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107400"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142526725","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}