Land Use Policy 

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether the sources of land use transitions are mostly endogenous socio-ecological forces or exogenous socio-economic factors, and evaluate the varying ecological quality of expanding forests associated with these pathways.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed a spatially explicit participatory mapping of the complete range of cultural ecosystem services and several disservices perceived by people living in a cultural landscape in Eastern Germany.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper comprehensively analyzed key issues of current land use in China and identified the major land-use problems when China was undergoing rapid urbanization. And they proposed a strategic land use policy system to guide sustainable land use.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of Huantai county in Shandong province in China is presented, where the authors examine the "increasing vs. decreasing balance" land-use policy, which seeks to balance increases in urban construction land with a reduction in rural construction land.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the relevance of multifunctional agriculture in peri-urban areas is presented, with a focus on agriculture in the context of environmental, social and economic functions of agriculture.