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{"title":"Balancing forest area preservation and biodiversity offsets in the forest: Forest owners’ policy preferences","authors":"Tobias Schulz ,&nbsp;Tamaki Ohmura","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107342","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107342","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In many densely populated countries in Europe, land suitable for agriculture, forest and protected areas is becoming scarcer with expanding settlement area. One way to mitigate this pressure is to abstain from the in-kind replacement of forest clearances and to allow for their compensation by nature conservation projects on areas other than agricultural land, including the forest itself. It is particularly the latter that implies a difficult trade-off for forest owners who adhere to the forest area preservation principle but at the same time support biodiversity offsetting in the forest as a potential new source of income.</p><p>This paper analyses the stated preferences of forest owners in the Swiss canton of Berne with a discrete choice survey experiment that allows examining how forest owners reconcile this trade-off and whether the requirement to spatially coordinate offsets affects their willingness to participate in such a scheme. The results show that while biodiversity offsetting in the forest is disputed and support is generally low, those forest owners that participate do not exclusively offer low-effectivity measures on marginal forest land. However, they also demand substantial financial compensation. A spatial coordination of biodiversity offsets is certainly not their main concern and thus needs to be secured by respective regulation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107342"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837724002953/pdfft?md5=def8d9816f3cdb58ad23e94ecfce6c2c&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837724002953-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172445","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":"Spatio-temporal interplay between ecosystem services and urbanization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: A new perspective for considering the scarcity effect","authors":"Hongjiao Qu ,&nbsp;Chang You ,&nbsp;Weiyin Wang ,&nbsp;Luo Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107358","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107358","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The expeditious trajectory of urbanization has profound ramifications on the configuration and functioning of the natural milieu. Given the constrained opulence of natural capital and its indispensable bestowal of ecosystem services in different regions, meticulous contemplation of the relationship between urbanization and the ecosystem service scarcity value (ESSV) while formulating decisions is imperative. This study focuses on the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB), where ESSV is quantified by combining the dynamic changes in market supply and demand factors. The influence of supply and demand changes on the ESSV is discussed and analyzed in four scenarios. Subsequently, a multidimensional urbanization comprehensive evaluation index system was established to explore the spatiotemporal interactive response mode between ESSV and urbanization. Our findings manifest a notably augmented ESSV in the YREB from 1990 to 2020, particularly prominent between 2000 and 2010. Moreover, the growth in public goods services outpaced that in private goods services within the same period. Demand-driven scarcity has emerged as the foremost determinant of ESSV. Urbanization levels gradually increased from 1990 to 2020, with a uniform allocation of heightened ESSV and urbanization throughout the region. The urbanization level of YREB, as a whole, exhibited conspicuous spatial heterogeneity, with the downstream region significantly surpassing the middle and upper reaches, and the downstream Yangtze River Delta city cluster and the middle reaches of the Chengdu-Chongqing city cluster notably outpacing that in the surrounding region. The coupling coordination degree (CCD) between the ESSV and urbanization in the YREB develops in a harmonious direction during the study period, accompanied by palpable spatial disparities. The area of unbalanced development gradually decreased, and the area proportion of the coordinated development type of ESSV and urbanization increased continuously. Overall, this study elucidates regional disparities in the reciprocal relationship between the ESSV and urbanization in the YREB, thereby unveiling the extent of incongruity between regional urbanization and the ecosystem. It serves to identify the juncture at which ecological sustainability and urbanization converge harmoniously, thus offering novel insights in achieving comprehensive, high-caliber, and synchronized development in the YREB.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107358"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229483","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":"An integrated framework for measuring sustainable rural development towards the SDGs","authors":"Dianfeng Liu ,&nbsp;Fuxiang Li ,&nbsp;Mingli Qiu ,&nbsp;Yang Zhang ,&nbsp;Xiang Zhao ,&nbsp;Jianhua He","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rural areas are essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), necessitating the evaluation of rural sustainability transitions. A precondition for evaluating sustainable rural development is to adapt the SDGs to rural contexts while maintaining global comparability. Besides, tradeoff relationships among evaluation indicators should be captured to overcome the limitations of traditional weighting aggregation methods. In this study, we propose an integrated framework that incorporates the SDGs into a composite indicator system for assessing sustainable rural development. Our framework quantifies these indicators using the index thresholds outlined in the SDGs dashboard, along with customized rules that reflectrural contexts. Furthermore, we employ the Pareto ranking approach to evaluate the sustainable development potentials of rural areas regarding tradeoff relationships among different indicators. In a case study of Zhaoyuan City, China, our findings indicate that only 20 % of the sustainable development goals are achieved on average across all indicator dimensions. The economic and social dimensions are closer to their ideal targets and more compatible with each other, while the ecological dimension remains relatively unsustainable. Sustainable rural development depends primarily on natural resource endowment, ecological sustainability, and residential sustainability of villages. Understanding tradeoff relationships among different indicators enables us to better adapt rural policies to the specific contexts of villages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107339"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229484","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":"Ideals and practicalities of policy co-design – Developing England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes","authors":"Ruth Little ,&nbsp;Judith Tsouvalis ,&nbsp;José Luis Fajardo Escoffié ,&nbsp;Susan E. Hartley ,&nbsp;David Christian Rose","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107343","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There are few examples of where co-design has been applied to active policy development on the scale or level of complexity of England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. ELM offers a fascinating ‘laboratory’ to analyse how co-design at this scale works in practice. This paper offers the first in-depth empirical assessment of the process from the perspectives of both the policy makers and stakeholders who were involved in the initial phase of ELM co-design from 2018 to 2020. Using interview data, we provide critical insights for both academics and government on 'pragmatic' applications of co-design to active policy development and reflect on what this tells us about the wider processes of policy development that may need to change in order to accommodate this more ‘democratic’ approach. Our analysis, which identified key barriers to co-design as articulated by institutional stakeholders and civil servants, revealed a mismatch between the principles and practices of ‘co-design’ in the initial development of ELM. These early-stage challenges included: (i) a lack of shared decision-making and empowering stakeholders to contribute to problem-definitions; (ii) confidentiality requirements that introduced barriers to information-sharing; (iii) insufficient transparency and feedback on what happened to stakeholder’s contributions in terms of policy development; (iv) an absence of detail on the schemes, including proposed approaches, payment rates, advice, baseline measures, the kinds of ‘outcomes’ expected, and monitoring mechanisms; and (v) a repetition of themes that participants had already discussed. Many of these mismatches may be common to other policy arenas. We argue that improved application of policy co-design in government will rely on wider changes to political processes and the institutional culture and practices within the civil service.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107343"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837724002965/pdfft?md5=9d8cf554c4ddf11fffa2b2ba4f677e30&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837724002965-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172444","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 Credibility Thesis meeting the Coase Theorem in terms of form and function","authors":"Lawrence W.C. Lai","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107335","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107335","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper engages two theories about the form and function of institutions, the “credibility thesis” offered by Peter Ho (2014, 2017, 2018) and the paradigmatic Coase Theorem, in two versions formulated by George J. Stigler and Steven N.S. Cheung and recognised by Ronald H. Coase (1988). The joint consideration of these two influential theories was predicated on the fact that the former, with its hallmark being “function trumps form” (Vatn 2023), is said to embrace institutional arrangements as endogenous, while the latter treats them as policy variables. This paper, interpreting the internal logic of the credibility thesis in its best possible light, explains that as a policy tool it is compatible with the contingent, comparative and case-by-case thinking of the Coase Theorem, as pointed out by Harold Demsetz (1969), although users of the former have launched an unfortunate and unsubstantiated attack on neo-institutional economics (NIE) likely based on a misinterpretation of primary sources.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107335"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172428","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":"Communal grant and land allocation effect on native land disputation in Malaysia","authors":"A.M. Azima ,&nbsp;Faathirah Jamaluddin ,&nbsp;Zaimah Ramli ,&nbsp;Suhana Saad ,&nbsp;Novel Lyndon","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107337","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107337","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Land management and community engagement are two key components in preventing conflict among native landowners and organizations. Disputes between owners and agencies will be the most difficult impediment to overcome in the land ongoing development. Led to extensive opposition among native customary peoples to native customary land alienation, the government has worked to provide a fair manner of individual ownership for native customary peoples. This point shows how land ownership issues may pose a danger to the nation if they are not addressed in appropriate forms and ways to the native customary community. This paper examines the influence of Communal Grants and land allocation in the Sabah Land Ordinance on native land disputes among Malaysian native landowners. Native landowners from Sabah constituted the population of this study. Samples were chosen using a simple random sampling technique. The gathered 100 complete responses were analyzed using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings revealed that the Communal Grants and land allocation in the Sabah Land Ordinance have significant positive influences on native customary land disputes. This study contributed significantly to the customary land alienation of native peoples as a minority group and indigenous world population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107337"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837724002904/pdfft?md5=6082328d263406c5ce6b542b8878c3f6&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837724002904-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142166731","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":"A sacrifice for the greater good? On the main drivers of excessive land take and land use change in Hungary","authors":"György Csomós ,&nbsp;Ádám Szalai ,&nbsp;Jenő Zsolt Farkas","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107352","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107352","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite continuous population decline or stagnation, many Central and Eastern European cities experience urban sprawl and expansion, accompanied by excessive land take and land use change. This paper investigates recent trends in land take and land use change in Hungarian cities, aiming to identify the drivers of these processes. The study utilizes the Urban Atlas (UA) databases from 2006 and 2018 to analyze land use change in selected Hungarian cities, employing QGIS software to compile the database and MS Excel to conduct the statistical analysis. A linear trajectory model is employed to project land use change by 2026, based on 2006–2018 UA data. Additionally, via the in-depth analysis of Debrecen, the study highlights the recent acceleration of land use change to compare the projected trend with the forecasted one. Local climate strategies focus on addressing environmental concerns, including changes in land use at the city level. Therefore, this study reviews the relevant documents associated with each city to assess its commitment to reducing land take. The results indicate that despite its declining population, Hungary has seen a significant expansion in artificial surfaces, primarily due to industrialization and population policies introduced by the central government, which is likely to continue in the coming years. Unfortunately, local climate strategies have been insufficient in preventing cities from experiencing urban sprawl and expansion and preserving local ecosystem services. This underscores the inability of municipalities to defend local interests against central government directives. The findings of this study indicate that the current central policies are the main drivers of land take and urban sprawl and expansion. Prioritizing the compact city model and brownfield developments could effectively mitigate these issues. Finally, the paper advocates that complete jurisdiction over land use decisions be restored to local governments, enabling them to reject investments that may jeopardize local environmental goals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107352"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837724003053/pdfft?md5=2d6417f4f3b87eca96ec46d1cc4dab91&pid=1-s2.0-S0264837724003053-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142166727","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":"Contrasting state land and fire use policies condition fire regime seasonality and size in two Central Spain forest landscapes","authors":"Francisco Seijo ,&nbsp;Gonzalo Zavala ,&nbsp;Rafael Ballester ,&nbsp;Jose Maria Costa-Saura ,&nbsp;Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda ,&nbsp;Jesús Julio Camarero ,&nbsp;José Antonio López Sáez","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107338","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107338","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article we describe contrasting state land use and fire management policy forest landscape level legacies in two contiguous municipalities of the Gredos mountain range in Central Spain. We employed an exploratory sequential mixed methods approach to collect complementary palynological, dendroecological, municipal level individual fire report and state archive “Ordenación” plan data for the 1850–2021 period. We hypothesize that the variations in land and cultural fire use through time that we have documented contributed to shape significant differences in forest structure and species composition in two municipalities with similar biophysical environments. Higher fire frequency most likely associated with preindustrial era agro-sylvo-pastoral and resin tapping uses, we argue, contributed to maintain, in one site, an open canopy, savanna-like “dehesa”, heterogenous forest landscape of <em>Pinus pinaster</em>, <em>Quercus pyrenaica</em> and grassland patches with low average annual burnt area whereas, conversely, lower fire frequency associated with stricter state fire exclusion policies and prioritization of timber production in the 20th century contributed to the maintenance of a closed canopy, dense, homogeneous <em>Pinus pinaster</em> forest with higher average burnt area in the other site. These findings have important policy implications for European Mediterranean Basin Forest ecosystems where there is an ongoing debate over the social and ecological impacts of 20th century state fire exclusion policies in the context of widespread rural abandonment, tree cover expansion and densification, shrub encroachment in “dehesa” structured forests and the increased frequency of extreme wildfire events in expanding wildland urban interface areas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107338"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142164963","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 certification, tenure security and off-farm employment: Evidence from China","authors":"Chuanhao Tian ,&nbsp;Yichen Luo ,&nbsp;Yu Teng","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107328","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107328","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>China’s new round of nationwide land certification program (LCP) provides a good natural experiment to investigate whether land certification can promote rural labor off-farm employment. However, existing research overlooks that the new round of LCP is a re-certification program based on the previous round. This paper proposes that incorporating the ex-ante property rights of households is crucial. Using micro survey data from China, this paper empirically examined the impact of the new round of LCP on off-farm employment for households with different ex-ante property rights through a multi-period DID model. The results indicate that the new round of LCP significantly increased the off-farm employment size for households without old land certificates. However, there was no significant impact on households with old land certificates. The ambitious new round of land tenure reform can only enhance the tenure stability for those households that previously lacked land certificates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107328"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142148650","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 use policy implications of demographic shifts: Analyzing the impact of aging rural populations on agricultural carbon emissions in China","authors":"Yong Huang ,&nbsp;Ehsan Elahi ,&nbsp;Jiansheng You ,&nbsp;Yuhua Sheng ,&nbsp;Jinwei Li ,&nbsp;Anchan Meng","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107340","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107340","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>China is facing a unique demographic challenge with its population entering a phase of negative growth, alongside the growing issue of Rural Population Aging (RPA). This has brought significant attention to the broader population challenges the country is encountering. While the aging of rural populations has been a focal point of discussion, there remains a need for deeper insights into how it specifically impacts Agricultural Carbon Emissions (ACE). To address this knowledge gap, this study has devised a research framework grounded in the human-land relationships theory. This framework seeks to analyze the influence of RPA on ACE. Empirical tests have been carried out using provincial (municipal) panel data spanning from 2002 to 2019. The study's findings indicate that RPA exacerbates ACE, particularly in regions with a pronounced aging rural demographic. However, this adverse effect is lessened in coastal areas and placed with a lighter rural aging phenomenon. Additionally, the negative impact gradually diminishes in the long term. From a land utilization perspective, RPA contributes to Land Misallocation (LM), serving as a critical conduit through which RPA influences ACE. Nevertheless, mitigating factors such as Land Transfer (LT) and Land Scale (LS) help alleviate this negative influence. This mitigation is more pronounced in the long run. In the context of smallholder farmers, the study suggests that a moderate-scale expansion and the promotion of new agricultural models can be instrumental in achieving broader agricultural carbon reduction targets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 107340"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142148598","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}