Showing papers in "Land Use Policy in 2014"

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: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the status quo of rural hollowing and discussed two typical rural residential land con- solidation and allocation (RRLCA) practices in traditional agricultural areas (TAAs) of China.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the impacts of rural outmigration on land use change, analyzes the process of migration and land use transition and then examines how rural out-migration affects land use in China.

TL;DR: In this article, a statistical analysis was conducted to determine if different levels of environmental enforcement between two groups of municipalities had any impact on the recent reduction of deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon, and the analysis showed that these targeted, heightened enforcement efforts avoided as much as 10,653 km2 of deforestation, which translates into 1.44 × 10-1 Pg C in avoided emissions for the 3 y period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the findings of a study of land reform in 25 countries in Central and Eastern Europe from 1989 and onwards and provide an overview of applied land reform approaches.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of 66 publications describing 102 case study locations and quantified the main forest and agricultural changes in the Carpathian region since the 18th century.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored agricultural land abandonment in Australia, Portugal and Sweden and identified a set of driving forces, classified into pressures, frictions and attractors that clarify why agricultural abandonment occurs differently in each study area, noting its temporal and spatial scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the themes of Land Use Policy and Policy in China under Rapid Rural and Urban Transformation have been discussed, focusing on four main areas of interest to both researchers and policymakers: nationwide land use issues, the Sloping Land Conversion Program, land engineering and land use, and land transition transitions.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed and employed a multi-level statistical model using farm household survey data and geographical maps of Wulong County to detect the influences on land abandonment at the parcel, household and village levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate factors facilitating and constraining participation in Ecuador's SocioParamo program, a recently launched PES initiative targeting highland Andean grasslands (paramos).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored farmer decision-making in the context of reducing the application of nitrogen fertilizer as a climate change mitigation strategy and assessed barriers to reduced application and participating in a potential offsets program.

TL;DR: Based on surveys on rural land-use change at village scale in Yucheng City, Shandong province, the authors presents how landuse change takes place in response to inhibitive institutional forces in light of an out-moded land ownership system and unreasonable land use rights administration, and discusses it in the broader social context of industrialization, rural depopulation, a dual-track land market, and land use legislation.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors examined the multi-faceted changes in program enrollment, land and labor allocation, agricultural production, and income structure and inequality and found that the program has affected land use substantially by simultaneously retiring degraded cropland and increasing forest and vegetation covers, which accelerated labor transfer into off-farm sectors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it might be more insightful to move beyond concepts of formal and informal, private and common, or secure and insecure institutions, to leave the discussion about institutional form for a discussion about function.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the theoretical basis of the low industrial land price phenomenon, which has resulted in a disproportionally large amount of industrial land within the total urban land use structure at the expense of the urban sprawl of many cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Sordo River basin (Tras-os-Montes Province, NE Portugal) was assessed by algorithms of multi criteria analysis and weighted linear combination, whereas environmental land use conflicts were described by an original approach.

TL;DR: In this article, a method for the characterisation of NUAs in terms of their physical, ecological and social features is presented, where different criteria and related indicators are structured according to a GIS-based Multi Criteria Suitability Model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Farmland Rental Paradox (FRP) phenomenon was studied in the Czech Republic, where very small farms tend to create large production blocks by being rented to larger farmers, and therefore to significantly homogenize the land-use pattern.

TL;DR: In this article, indirect land use change (ILUC) effects of ethanol production expansion in Brazil through the use of an inter-regional, bottom-up, dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated with the 2005 Brazilian I-O table is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the period from 1782 to 2006 divided according to the existing political systems in three rural study sites of Slovakia and found that the landscape of all three sites has undergone significant changes in land-use and cover during the 224 years.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that the resulting unbalanced development strategy seems likely to lead to unsustainable socioeconomic development, including increasing income disparities, waste of resources, environmental degradation, damage to China's natural and cultural heritages, growing social turbulence, and consequences for the rest of the world.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the changes in rural settlement patterns and used a decoupling model to analyze the relationship between them and found that the rural settlement area (RSA) was decoupled from rural register population (RRP) in China since 2000, while RRP increased by 0.62% and 0.09% during 1996-2000 and 2000-2005, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated land use change model combines, a logistic regression model, Markov chain, and cellular automata, and was used to make predictions for the years 2030 and 2045.

TL;DR: In this article, the processing of data on urban land conversion along the Italian Adriatic coast in the last 50 years has been studied and the results obtained show different aspects of the phenomenon: values were obtained for the average annual speed of transformation of the coastal strip; clustering, dispersion and statistical concentration of the data obtained were studied, which has made it possible to show unparalleled threshold values in the present levels of urbanization; geostatistical surveys were conducted to determine the distribution changes of urban concentration over time; analyses were developed to point out what landscape and morphological

TL;DR: Wu et al. as discussed by the authors used stochastic frontier analysis to estimate the technical and fertilizer use efficiency of rice production based on a survey held among 320 households in Wuxi, Zhenjiang and Changzhou, located upstream of Taihu Lake.

TL;DR: It is found that migrant departure has a positive effect on agricultural activities that is offset by migrant remittances, and it is suggested that rural out-migration alone is not likely to lead to a forest transition in the study areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, a typology of different schools of thought is developed: land tenure security is shown to be understood through (1) economic, (2) legal or (3) adaptation lenses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the biophysical and socio-economic factors that significantly affect land degradation across Vietnam and to interpret the causalities underlying the effects of land degradation in three land-use zones (agriculture, forest and severely degraded abandonment).

TL;DR: Results indicate that a rise in months spent abroad and remittances returned do not translate into a higher percentage of farm sales, intensification or transition to cattle ranching – counter to NELM, and suggest remittance investments in quantitative increase rather than qualitative change in land use practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how large-scale land acquisitions made by foreign investors in Zambia are implemented by examining both the steps that an investor has to go through in order to attain land within the Zambian land governance system as well as the actors shaping the acquisition process.