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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100207

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100204

Eva Kiss

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Effect of simple accommodation regulation on preventing population decline in the historical centre of Kyoto City 简单住宿管制对防止京都市历史中心人口减少的效果

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100203

Ayane Sakuma, Haruka Kato

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An analysis of factors affecting farmers’ capacity building for sustainable rural and agricultural development in Bangladesh 影响孟加拉国农民可持续农村和农业发展能力建设的因素分析

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100202

Md. Masud Rana , Lily Kiminami , Shinichi Furuzawa

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Determinants of subcentral public debt: Evidence from cantons in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 次中央公共债务的决定因素：来自波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那联邦各州的证据

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100201

Amina Moćević , Lejla Lazović-Pita

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Informal workers in the rural sector in Colombia: Living conditions and social security 哥伦比亚农村部门的非正规工人：生活条件和社会保障

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100200

Oscar Espinosa , Valeria Bejarano , Martha-Liliana Arias , Jorge-Iván González

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New proximities during and after the Covid 19 pandemic 在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间和之后，新的邻近地区

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100199

André Torre

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Influence of land-use planning on public forests' vegetation cover: Insights from the Brazilian Amazon 土地利用规划对公共森林植被覆盖的影响：来自巴西亚马逊的见解

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100197

Iranilda Moraes , Claudia Azevedo-Ramos

{"title":"Influence of land-use planning on public forests' vegetation cover: Insights from the Brazilian Amazon","authors":"Iranilda Moraes , Claudia Azevedo-Ramos","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Allocating Brazilian undesignated public forests (UPF) to specific land-use categories is advocated as essential for improved forest governance. In 2010, a 1.3-million-hectare area of UPF in eastern Amazon, known as the Mamuru-Arapiuns Glebas, underwent a land-use planning and allocation process. Over a decade later, the impact of this initiative on the region's forest cover remains unknown. Analyses of forest cover dynamics and land use within the newly created land categories were conducted in four-year intervals from 2006 to 2018. The results indicated a total forest cover loss of 50,017 ha (4 %), with annual rates increasing over the analyzed periods and a significant rise in deforestation and/or logging activities in some land categories following the land-use planning (e.g. in community areas, altered forests increased by an average of 641 ha/year). During the first post-planning period (T<sub>2</sub>), forest cover loss increased by 18 % compared to the pre-planning period (T<sub>1</sub>). In T<sub>3</sub>, the increase was 350 %, resulting in annual losses ranging from 1708 ha/year to 7690 ha/year. The findings reveal that while allocating UPF contributes to land-use governance in a specific region, it does not necessarily lead to reduced deforestation, depending on the chosen land-use category. Additionally, the study highlights that UPF allocation is only a first step, emphasizing the crucial need for implementing effective management tools in these areas to enhance the strategy's success and achieve better forest governance in the Amazon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"17 6","pages":"Article 100197"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143807677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Angry together or agitated alone? The role of social capital in the geographies of discontent 一起生气还是单独激动？社会资本在不满地域中的作用

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100185

Luise Koeppen , Dimitris Ballas , Arjen Edzes , Sierdjan Koster

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Deterministic political competition and regional economic outcomes when the creative class sets tax policy 创意阶层制定税收政策时的决定性政治竞争和区域经济成果

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100198

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal , Hamid Beladi

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