Showing papers in "Land Use Policy in 2015"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a methodology for estimating the C-factor in the European Union (EU), using pan-European datasets (such as CORINE Land Cover), biophysical attributes derived from remote sensing, and statistical data on agricultural crops and practices.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the impact of urbanization and different urbanization modes on cultivated land changes using an econometric model that incorporates socioeconomic and policy factors in the eastern China, which experienced the great urbanization in recent years.

TL;DR: This article explored smallholder farmers' adoption decisions of multiple sustainable intensification practices (SIPs) in eastern and southern Africa and found that some practices used in maize production are complementary while others are substitutable, and the adoption of SIPs is influenced by social capital and networks, quality of extension services, reliance on government support during crop failure, incidence of pests and diseases, resource constraints, tenure security, education, and market access.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess how the ecosystem service framework is organized and implemented in the current urban green planning structure of the city of Berlin, based on an analysis of strategic planning documents and expert interviews with local stakeholders.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the evolution of European land management over the past 200 years with the aim of identifying key episodes of changes in land management, and their underlying technological, institutional and economic drivers.

TL;DR: The Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) as discussed by the authors is an international standard for land administration, which aims to provide a standardised global vocabulary for the land administration domain model, and can stimulate the development of software applications and accelerate the implementation of land administration systems that support sustainability objectives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw from 30 interviews with agricultural experts to assess their perceptions of sustainable intensification, finding that the term is not uniformly understood and the majority of respondents do not see it as a significant departure from current agricultural practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the risk of farmland abandonment in 27 EU Member States by using recent socioeconomic farm data and geospatial datasets and then combine these indicators to make a composite risk indicator.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the institutional causes of the land finance strategy of city governments in China and found that the current system of fiscal decentralization and competition between city governments to promote economic growth are two major causes of land finance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the spatial diversification of crop types across an upland-lowland gradient on Mount Kenya's northwestern slopes and performed regression analyses using household-level survey data collected during the summer of 2012 to investigate the factors contributing to varying levels of crop diversification and implications for crop production in a semi-arid irrigated agricultural system.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-method approach is used, drawing on quantitative and qualitative data across spatial levels and temporal scales to examine the complex interrelationships between community resilience, forest ecosystems and land degradation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate land-use dynamics in Jambi, Sumatra, one of the hotspots of Indonesia's recent oil palm boom, and find that, in spite of considerable oil palm expansion, rubber remains the dominant crop.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a European de-sprawling strategy, including the implementation of targets and limits, and a set of concrete measures to control urban sprawl and to use land in a more resource-efficient way.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate land conversion as a result of urban-rural transformation in Chinese context and find strong connecti cies between land conversion and urban transformation in the Bohai Rim region.

TL;DR: The integration of Geographical Information Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to evaluate the potential of a rural coastal area to improve its sustainable development through the restoration of manor farms highlights how the spatial distribution of suitable areas is closely linked to the risk assumed and to the capability of the methods in varying both risk and tradeoff parameters.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed land use dynamics through overlay of their land use maps from 2001 to 2010 and revealed that local cadres such as township governments and village collectives utilize land finance as a strategy to contest the reshuffling of central-local power brought about by the 1994 tax-sharing scheme.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed urbanization patterns in Jabodetabek Metropolitan Area (JMA) with Indonesia's capital Jakarta at its core, and the dynamics of peri-urban agriculture in this context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the factors that are behind the differential performance of agriculture across the EU-27 countries and found that agricultural sectors characterized by a young and better trained farm population are more likely to attain high economic performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the ecological quality of surface water in small mountain streams to establish a relationship between land use, water and aquatic biota, and indicated a significant impact of land use on water quality which has straight influence on the distribution of biota.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined changes to farmland in a context of rapid urbanization in Changzhou City, China and examined farmland changes in the suburban areas outside the city and in the exurban regions.

TL;DR: This paper examined the outcomes of the SLCP by way of a case study from the Yangliu watershed in Yunnan province and focused on the notions of justice embedded in state policy and held by villagers and local state officials in order to understand the observed outcomes in terms of people's participation in the implementation of the sLCP, land use changes and livelihood effects.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors examined the magnitudes of legal security, actual security and perceived security of farmland tenure, and the causes of currently prevailing land tenure insecurity in rural China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the literature on participatory environmental governance in order to derive key participation-related factors that are hypothesized to impact on decision quality and implementation, and outline four cases of decision-making processes in local environmental planning in Germany, representing a variety of forms of public participation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined and compared the intensities and spatial patterns of ULCs in two megacities of Southeast Asia, namely, Manila, Philippines and Bangkok Metropolitan Region (Bangkok MR), during the 1990-2000 and 2000-2010 periods, using remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, a linear programming (LP) model has been developed for optimal land and water resources allocation in various sectors of the Hirakud Canal Command, a multi-purpose irrigation project on the river Mahanadi in eastern India.

TL;DR: In this article, the formal administrative responsibilities related to the four rainforest transformation systems were analyzed based on the informal motives of the competing bureaucracies involved generating hypotheses on their future course of action and related research.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper found that farmers' risk aversion was negatively and significantly related with adaptation strategies on planting new crop varieties and adopting new technology, but it had a significantly positive effect on purchasing weather index crop insurance.

TL;DR: A review of spatial planning in the context of Ghana's socio-economic development trajectory is provided in this paper, where the authors reveal the different context and scope within which spatial planning has been implemented in Ghana, and the successes and failures thereof, and argue that post-independence planning has not been successfully implemented compared to pre-independence plans due to a myriad of factors including rapid urban growth, inadequate staffing, low capacity, lack of institutional coordination, political interference in planning, complex land tenure and evolving land markets among others.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated spatial assessment of the flood risk for human beings and for the residential, non-residential, agricultural and environmental sectors is presented, which is applied to the city of Zaragoza and downstream municipalities in the Ebro river basin.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors cover 10 topics that have recently become highly relevant to sustainable urban development (SUD): a balanced approach to SUD, socio-cultural awareness, urban sprawl, economic urban development, transportation, urban renewal, urban vegetation, assessment systems, and city structure and land use.