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{"title":"Beyond entrepreneurism: China's emerging party-statecraft of Rural Revitalization","authors":"Shengxi Xin ,&nbsp;Handuo Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103277","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103277","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amongst a global trend of rising state intervention, party-statecraft is used to explain national political mandates in Xi Jinping-era China. In rural areas, the predominant national mandate has been Rural Revitalization, remaining underexplored in urban-centred governance studies. Additionally, party-statecraft thinking has not sufficiently clarified the practical implementation methods, particularly market and financial approaches to rural development. This study integrates perspectives on party building and state entrepreneurialism to conceptualize Rural Revitalization as an emerging form of party-statecraft. By examining a village in Southwest China, the study demonstrates that this rural party-statecraft is executed through enhancing party leadership in communities, establishing party-driven community organizations, extending party influence into the private sector, and scaling up through zoning, regulatory flexibility, and financial expansion. While the approach improves the village's socio-economic status, it encounters challenges including long-term economic unsustainability, reliance on urban land finances, and conflicting goals between the state and grassroots communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103277"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Farmers' responses to market demand and influencing factors in vegetable production bases around Beijing","authors":"Sen Yu ,&nbsp;Enpu Ma ,&nbsp;Yiwen Ji ,&nbsp;Liuwen Liao ,&nbsp;Weiyi Ye ,&nbsp;Wanyu Qi ,&nbsp;Yanru Yang ,&nbsp;Man Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103284","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103284","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The external vegetable production bases in the areas surrounding Beijing City are the important food supply sources for the city, which are of great importance for the industrial development of the regional agriculture and rural revitalization. The purpose of this study on these vegetable production bases and the nearby rural households is to provide reference for the synergistic development of urban and rural areas in the new development period, for the model of the external production base in the areas surrounding Beijing City and for the improvement of the rural household behavior response. Based on the meta-coupling framework of food systems, this study used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the efficiency of farmland utilization. It then established an indicator system to evaluate the responsiveness of farmland use to demand (RFUD). A multidimensional analysis of demand responses was conducted, and the influencing factors of these responses were explored using a multiple linear regression model. The evaluation results indicated that the RFUD of the interviewed rural households was generally at a moderate level, characterized by a “pyramidal” distribution, with a relatively high proportion of low to moderate response levels and a low proportion of high response levels. Different types of rural households showed distinct patterns of RFUD in their land use behavior. Rural households with a high proportion of agricultural income, located in mountainous areas, and operating under a jointly managed base model tended to have a higher level of RFUD. The rural households of different livelihood types showed the most significant differences in farmland function transition (FT) and operational efficiency (EF). In contrast, households from different types of regions exhibited notable variations in structure adjustment capability (SA). Meanwhile, the factor substitution capability (FS) varied greatly among farming households operating under different production models. The establishment of cooperation with vegetable production bases, the driving capacity of these bases, and the production services available to farmers can significantly enhance their responsiveness to demand. Additionally, farmers' education level and understanding of agricultural market information positively influence their response to market demand, while the migration of agricultural labor to non-farm jobs negatively affects it. Based on these findings, it is essential to strengthen agricultural technology training and guidance for farmers in vegetable production base areas. This would help low-RFUD households improve the quality and efficiency of their land use, enabling them to better align their land use practices with market demand.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103284"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum “Multi-scenario comparisons to identify the spatial distribution, land type, and effectiveness of cultivated land restoration in the main grain-producing area” [Habitant Int. 154 (2024) 103211]","authors":"Kunyu Liang ,&nbsp;Xiaobin Jin ,&nbsp;Shilei Wang ,&nbsp;Xinyuan Liang ,&nbsp;Bo Han ,&nbsp;Yinkang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103297","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103297"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143313038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distribution patterns and driving mechanisms of land use spatial conflicts: Empirical analysis from counties in China","authors":"Shanshan Zong ,&nbsp;Shan Xu ,&nbsp;Jiachen Huang ,&nbsp;Yuhan Ren ,&nbsp;Ci Song","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103268","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103268","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Conflict between environmental protection and human development is inevitable given China's explosive socio-economic growth. Diagnosing land use conflicts (LUCs) and exploring their driving forces are prerequisites for alleviating land disputes. Based on the land use remote sensing monitoring data in 2020, this study established a conceptual framework and mathematical model of potential LUCs according to the suitability criteria by using multi-factor superposition method, analyzed the types, intensities and spatial pattern characteristics of LUCs in Chinese Mainland. Furthermore, the driving factors of spatial conflicts were investigated using spatial econometric and geographically weighted regression models. The results showed that the spatial distribution of the three types of land suitability in China was seriously mismatched. At the grid scale, about 70.07% of the regions in Chinese Mainland were in a state of potential LUCs. Bounded by the Hu Huanyong Line, the conflict type in the west was mainly agricultural-ecological land, while in the east conflict was mainly agricultural-construction land. At the county scale, 1176 counties were in a state of potential high-intensity conflict, and the conflict index showed a polarized distribution of “high in the East and low in the West” in space. The spatial agglomeration pattern of LUCs was the aftereffect of the combined action of natural and social factors. It should be pointed out that regional dominant factors played different or even opposite roles in different spaces. The logical framework and results of this study can provide a scientific basis for the comprehensive layout of different types of land in the preparation of national spatial planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103268"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How village leaders behave in leading vernacular heritage-based rural regeneration in traditional villages, agent or steward? Field research in traditional villages of the southeast of Chongqing, China","authors":"Xiang Qian ,&nbsp;Ke Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103257","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103257","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Village leaders have a pivotal role to play in vernacular heritage-based rural regeneration, but marginal interest was given to their leader behavior in rural development, even in the highly relevant research there exists somewhat ambiguity in differentiating village leadership and public leadership. Given that village leaders would exhibit complex behavior due to their dual-role responsibility, this paper introduced agency and stewardship theories to identify and analyze their leader behaviors in an agent-steward scale, with the aim to address how and why village leaders behave in preserving and harnessing vernacular heritage for rural regeneration. Fitting for purpose, this paper is designed as a two-phase qualitative research of behavior analysis involving village leaders serving in national traditional villages located in the southeast of Chongqing. National traditional villages are jointly selected by the ministries responsible for heritage conservation and rural development, referring to those with one-or-a-kind historic memory and cultural, artistic and regional characteristics. The first-phase observation figured out that three leader behaviors are clearly present in their leadership: self-serving and group-serving agent-like behaviors, as well as steward-like behavior. The second-phase interview expanded upon three behaviors and assessed their effects on vernacular heritage conservation and sustainable rural development. The results of this study give useful clues on and lend a fresh perspective to village leadership in different regions where it is suggested to preserve and harness heritage as a driving force for rural development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103257"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban discourses and rural settlements: Toward a documentary analysis of the effects of governmentality on the built environment in rural Galicia (Spain)","authors":"Mónica Alcindor ,&nbsp;Jennifer Prieto ,&nbsp;Delton Jackson","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103251","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103251","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103251"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do disasters disrupt the spatial growth of informal settlements? A multi-temporal remote sensing approach – The case study of Mocoa, Colombia","authors":"Ricardo Camacho ,&nbsp;Jagannath Aryal ,&nbsp;Abbas Rajabifard","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103272","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Informal settlements are a growing phenomenon, particularly in the Global South, where disaster risk is also high. This research investigates how disasters can disrupt the growth patterns of multiple informal settlements within a city, focusing on the 2017 Mocoa disaster in Colombia. We propose a novel spatiotemporal framework combining data and models such as historical aerial photographs, RapidEye, PlanetScope multi-temporal images, and deep learning pixel classification models. The framework is translated into a dedicated approach that compares the urban and peri-urban dynamics of twelve informal settlements in the city of Mocoa over 14 years, considering its limited data availability, typical of smaller cities in the Global South. Our analysis reveals that the 2017 disaster significantly altered Mocoa's sprawl pattern and the growth trajectory of specific informal settlements. This study contributes to a replicable methodology in understanding the impact of disasters on informal urbanisation, highlighting the need for disaster risk reduction strategies that consider the vulnerabilities of IS in smaller cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103272"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Block-scale modeling of residential land prices: Incorporating multilevel determinants and explainable artificial intelligence","authors":"Peng Zhang ,&nbsp;Shengfu Yang ,&nbsp;Jiayue Huang ,&nbsp;Shougeng Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103283","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103283","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurate urban residential land price modeling is essential to optimize land allocation, shape tax policies, and promote sustainable urban development. Traditional statistical models often struggle to capture the interactive and nonlinear effects of determinants on land prices. This study integrates multilevel determinants based on hedonic pricing theory with explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques to improve land price modeling. Focusing on Wuhan, we used geographic big data and street view images to evaluate location, neighborhood, and environmental factors at various spatial levels, including nearest accessibility, 15-min walk availability, and residential cluster availability. These factors were incorporated into three tree-based machine learning algorithms, random forest, gradient boosting tree, and eXtreme gradient boosting (XGB), to build predictive models. The XGB model outperformed the others and was used to predict prices in unobserved blocks. SHapley Additive exPlanations were applied to interpret the results, revealing key determinants of land prices. The proximity to rivers and central business districts emerged as significant factors. The influence of urban amenities varied on spatial scales, and green spaces had a stronger impact on the 15-min walk scale than on the larger residential cluster scale. Nonlinear threshold effects were identified, such as the diminishing negative impact of distance to the nearest metro station within a 1.5 km radius, beyond which the effect becomes negligible. Notably, significant interactive effects were observed, particularly the synergistic relationship between riverside locations and the visual presence of street green spaces, which together enhance land value. This study combines hedonic pricing with XAI to improve both predictive accuracy and interpretability, supporting evidence-based decision-making for smart urban planning and governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103283"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validating the age-friendly cities and communities questionnaire in Australia: Revealing five distinct groups of older people in Greater Adelaide","authors":"Romy Wasserman ,&nbsp;Helen Barrie ,&nbsp;Jeroen Dikken ,&nbsp;Joost van Hoof ,&nbsp;Veronica Soebarto","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103278","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103278","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To date, a range of qualitative and mixed-methods approaches have been applied to assess the age-friendliness of cities and communities. The Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ) has been developed to fill a gap for a systematic quantitative method approach to evaluate baseline age-friendliness in cities and communities and then measure ongoing efforts to become more age-friendly, aligned with the model by the World Health Organization (WHO). As such, it offers a valid and valuable quantitative method for cities to assess age-friendliness.</div><div>This paper presents the process and results of a study undertaken to test the validity and reliability of the AFCCQ for the Australian context. It is part of a broader cross-cultural project seeking to test the AFCCQ across Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America to generate methodological insight and comparable data. Informed by consultation with local experts in population and ageing research, as well as with people aged 65 and over, the instrument proved reliable in the Australian context before being distributed to 334 older people in Greater Adelaide for validation.</div><div>Results show that the AFCCQ-AU proved a valid and reliable tool for evaluating the age-friendliness of larger cities and communities in Australia. Overall, the total score indicated moderate-good satisfaction with the age-friendliness features of the Greater Adelaide Region with the domain of Housing scoring highest (highly satisfactory). Psychometric validation and cluster analysis led to the identification of five typologies of older people living in Greater Adelaide, characterised by distinct socio-demographic profiles and concomitant experiences and evaluations of age-friendliness.</div><div>This Australian validation adds further weight to the role of the AFCCQ in being able to assess the age-friendliness of cities and communities across the WHO's Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. Used in combination with the rich and nuanced qualitative data at the local level, the tool has the ability to create significant outcomes for older people and their communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103278"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment in China","authors":"Hengfei Song ,&nbsp;Xiubin Li ,&nbsp;Fuyao Zhang ,&nbsp;Pengcheng Gu ,&nbsp;Yuchen Chen ,&nbsp;Haiping Wu ,&nbsp;Lixuan Xin ,&nbsp;Yahan Lu ,&nbsp;Yunxi Liu ,&nbsp;Xue Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103298","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103298","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amidst escalating food demand, farmland abandonment poses a new challenge to food security. However, an insufficient understanding of the pattern and its dominant determinants are major obstacles to effective policymaking. To address the gap, this study established a theoretical framework for analyzing farmland abandonment, and employing a quantile regression model for empirical analysis. Data were drawn from two national land surveys to reveal the spatial distribution pattern and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment. The findings indicated that farmland abandonment ratio in China from 2009 to 2019 was 4.07% (5.19 Mha), with higher values observed in dry farmlands, sloping farmlands, and farmlands with high slopes. Spatially, farmland abandonment was more prevalent in hilly and mountainous areas as well as in non-major grain-producing areas at regional level. Additionally, farmland abandonment primarily occurs in the northwestern and southeastern coastal areas at the county level. In the northwestern agro-pastoral transition zones and southeastern mountainous and hilly regions, there are significant banded and banded-aggregation distribution patterns. Moreover, cultivation conditions and socioeconomic factors significantly affect farmland abandonment. As farmland abandonment increased, the influence of the former increased gradually. Conversely, in areas with severe farmland abandonment, the influence of the latter was weakened further. To strengthen management of farmland abandonment, the relevant policy initiatives should focus on advancing smart agriculture, enhancing farmland infrastructure, innovating machinery and equipment, expanding the agricultural industry chain, and refining the land lease market to reduce cultivation costs and enhance farmland output.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103298"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}