Showing papers in "Land Use Policy in 2016"

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the evolution and challenge for land-centered urbanization, and way forward for people-oriented urbanization in China, and proposed eight suggestions from two perspectives for achieving new-type urbanisation in China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a systematic synthesis of 144 studies that identify the proximate and underlying drivers of landscape change across Europe and find that land abandonment/extensification is the most prominent (62% of cases) among multiple proximate drivers.

TL;DR: In this article, a framework for mapping and assessing the relationships between ecosystem services (ES) capacity, flow and demand with a focus on the identification of unsatisfied demand is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the social relevance of land use-land cover changes on the delivery of eight key services provided by Spanish arid ecosystems as follows: provisioning services related to intensive and traditional agriculture, regulating services associated with water regulation, climate regulation, air quality and erosion control, and cultural services linked to local identity and tourism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the debate on food versus fuel as a lens to examine the interdependencies between the multiple end-uses of feedstocks and the multifunctionality of land, revealing a more nuanced understanding of the realities of agricultural networks, land use conflicts and the values of the people managing land.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of humans in the generation of ecosystem services, and the factors that might help us to understand diversity in these processes, and suggest that identities and capabilities of people have to be considered much more strongly than is currently the case in standard ecosystem services assessments, as these influence which ecosystem structures are eventually turned into benefits.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of natural capital and human-derived (produced, human, social, cultural, financial) capital (HDC) in the provision of ecosystem services is discussed.

TL;DR: It is suggested that aquaculture will continue as the main driver of change in mangrove ecosystems in Indonesia followed by palm oil plantation, and the net loss of mangroves in the next two decades could be reduced.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a theoretical model to investigate household decisions on farming scale when off-farm labor market is accessible and there is heterogeneity of farmland productivity and distribution, which is capable of explaining the hidden reasons of cropland abandonment in sloping and agriculturally less-favored locations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a framework to analyze the treatment of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) measures in urban level climate planning, and applied it to a sample of climate adaptation plans in Europe.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a new "ecological redline policy" (ERP) using ecosystem services as a way to meet its targets by giving environmental policy redline status.

TL;DR: The authors identifies the range of existing uses and definitions of the term "forest-dependent people" and summarizes them in a systematic taxonomy. But despite its long history and widespread use, there are substantial divergences in who the term refers to, what each of its constituent words mean, and how many forest-dependent individuals there are globally.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the approaches to stakeholder identification as used by environmental and natural resources management practitioners, and highlighted the importance of acknowledging the privileged position of the practitioner in deciding who is awarded stakeholder status in a project or issue.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of urbanization on three regulating and provisioning ecosystem services in two disparate watersheds in Florida, USA were modeled using geospatial and plot-level forest inventory data to assess future changes in carbon storage, timber volume and water yield during a period of 57 years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the causes and history of forest loss in Indonesia from 1950 to 2015 were investigated and the authors concluded that export-oriented log production and global demand were the primary factors underlying forest loss.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an extended version of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to investigate which factors are associated with farmers' intention to perform unsubsidised agri-environmental measures.

TL;DR: In this paper, a photo-based questionnaire survey is combined with cartographical representations of landscape types to elicit hot and cold-spot areas of cultural ecosystem service provision, and statistically test for influences of the land use type and the respondents' socio-demographic background on tourists' perception of these services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied a local environmental conflict related to a stormwater management plan in Helsinki, Finland, and assigned socio-cultural values of local blue-green infrastructure, and evaluated how these values could be taken into account at the early stage in green area planning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined spatio-temporal land cover patterns between 1990 and 2007 by integrating cross-matrix analysis, spatial metrics, and gradient analysis, and overlay these land cover dynamics with municipal master plans that regulate land development in order to assess the compliance levels of this land-use regulatory system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the benefit distribution policy and practice of a prominent REDD+ project in Kenya with the aim of understanding the extent to which it addresses equity, and reveal that while the project design was attentive to equity concerns in distributing benefits among the project implementer, landowners and the wider population of small-scale farmers and pastoralists in the area, in practice, the initial flow of benefits were concentrated in the hands of a few.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors used multitemporal satellite imageries and a set of landscape metrics (area-weighted mean patch area, edge density, area weighted weighted shape index, Euclidean nearest neighbor distance, effective mesh size and total area) to characterize forest loss and fragmentation from 1979 to 2014 in the Ningbo region of China.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the trends of four types of cash crops (tea, fruit, mulberry and nursery) and their relations to other land use changes within Hangzhou region in subtropical China.

TL;DR: In this paper, a high resolution erosion model based on Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) with the CENTURY biogeochemical model, with the aim to incorporate the lateral carbon fluxes occurring with the sediment transportation, was coupled with the GAEC (Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions) as part of the Cross Compliance mechanism.

TL;DR: The proposed model is based on the combined application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) using Fuzzy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (FDEMATEL) method and the results can be used as a policy of sustainable development at all levels of public administration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of land ownership on the productivity and technical efficiency of rice farmers in the Philippines and found that land ownership has a significant impact on technical efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and applied a set of framing questions to investigate the factors shaping farmer decision-making and how these are situated in pathways of response, and found that personal motivations and individual perceptions of adaptive capacity interact with socioeconomic, climatic, and agro-ecological dynamics at local and regional scales to mediate risk perception and inform response behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a methodological framework based on network modelling for the study and modelling of ecological networks, which is applied to the case study of the peri-urban and urban areas of the town of Nuoro (Italy).

TL;DR: The concept of green infrastructure is widely used in environmental planning, but so far it has no standard definition as discussed by the authors, which can be used to water down biodiversity conservation aims and objectives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classified farmland ownership fragmentation as an underlying cause of land degradation in five types (water erosion, wind erosion, soil compaction, reduction of organic matter, and nutrient depletion).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined stakeholder interpretations of procedural justice during the design and siting of a community wind project in South Yorkshire, and found that although the project leaders explicitly aimed for a fair and "democratic" implementation process, considerable conflict emerged over whether this goal was achieved.