Pub Date : 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107972
Qikang Zhong, Zhe Li, Chao Yuan
Urbanization results in the conversion of vegetated land into impervious surfaces, substantially altering terrestrial ecosystems. To comprehensively assess these impacts, this study conducted a global comparative analysis of vegetation greenness between urban and peri-urban areas in 955 major cities from 2001 to 2019. Using satellite-derived Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data, this study examined both the absolute levels and temporal trends of vegetation greenness. The results showed that the ΔEVI and ΔNDVI (urban EVI or NDVI minus peri-urban EVI or NDVI) differed greatly by cities, and the method used to define urban and peri-urban areas. In most cities, the ΔEVI and ΔNDVI were negative, indicating lower vegetation greenness in urban cores. From 2001–2019, the average urban EVI and NDVI of these 955 cities decreased significantly (p < 0.01), while the average peri-urban EVI and NDVI increased significantly (p < 0.01), leading to a growing urban and peri-urban vegetation disparity. Furthermore, ΔEVI and ΔNDVI, along with their trends, generally decreased as the distance from the city increased, stabilizing when the distance exceeded 15 km. The presence of impervious surfaces and water bodies in peri-urban areas contributed to higher mean values and trend slopes of ΔEVI and ΔNDVI. The ΔEVI and ΔNDVI, along with their trends derived from high-resolution impervious surface data were generally lower than those from moderate-resolution land cover data. These findings contribute to our understanding of the impact of urbanization on vegetation greenness and provide a scientific foundation for urban planning and ecosystem management.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107968
Brenda Brito, Jeferson Almeida
{"title":"Legal incentives for public land grabbing via deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon","authors":"Brenda Brito, Jeferson Almeida","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107962
Cathal O’Donoghue, Mohammed Zajeer Ahmed, Patrick McGetrick
{"title":"A novel approach to undertake a socio-economic impact assessment of a major urban regeneration project","authors":"Cathal O’Donoghue, Mohammed Zajeer Ahmed, Patrick McGetrick","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107962","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107973
Chendi Yang, Hao Huang, Sian Meng, Yunjie Zhang, Jacqueline T.Y. Lo, Rui Ma
{"title":"Typology-based spatial modeling of urban block commercial vitality: Evidence from Shenzhen for land use planning","authors":"Chendi Yang, Hao Huang, Sian Meng, Yunjie Zhang, Jacqueline T.Y. Lo, Rui Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107966
Jonas Böhm, Thomas de Witte, Frank Offermann, Uwe Latacz-Lohmann
{"title":"Preserving agricultural land with agrivoltaic – But at what cost? An economic analysis of different agrivoltaic systems in Germany","authors":"Jonas Böhm, Thomas de Witte, Frank Offermann, Uwe Latacz-Lohmann","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107966","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-02DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107956
Katarzyna Rędzińska, Magdalena Krawczyk
{"title":"Urban ecosystems’ fragmentation as an ecological measure of urbanization quality in shrinking cities","authors":"Katarzyna Rędzińska, Magdalena Krawczyk","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107956","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146109868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-02DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107963
Abdul-Rasheed Amidu, Alirat Olayinka Agboola, Muhammed Bolomope
{"title":"How do key actors and governance structures interact in large-scale land acquisition? An institutional theory perspective","authors":"Abdul-Rasheed Amidu, Alirat Olayinka Agboola, Muhammed Bolomope","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107963","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146109870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107960
Demetris Demetriou
{"title":"Assessing ChatGPT’s legal reasoning in statutory land consolidation: The case of Cyprus","authors":"Demetris Demetriou","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146095676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107964
Zarema Akhmadiyeva , Thomas Herzfeld
Secure land tenure is widely believed to foster agricultural investment. However, farmers’ subjective perceptions of land rights rather than legal entitlements may ultimately shape their land use decisions. This study analyzes how perceived land rights and their discrepancies with written rules influence farmers’ intentions to intensify land use. Building on the Theory of Planned Behavior and survey data from 955 farmers in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, we find that perceived land rights and their discrepancies play an important role in shaping intensification intentions, but through context-specific mechanisms. In Kazakhstan, perceived land rights positively influence farmers’ intentions only indirectly through attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. In Uzbekistan, by contrast, perceived land rights are negatively associated with intensification intentions both directly and indirectly, suggesting that stronger perceived rights may discourage investment under rigid and centralized land governance. Moreover, underuse of legal rights undermines key behavioral drivers among Kazakh farmers, while violations of formal land use restrictions reduce intensification intentions among Uzbek farmers. These findings underscore the need to align formal regulations with local perceptions to enhance land policy effectiveness and tenure security in transitional contexts.
{"title":"Land rights perceptions and farmer behavior: Evidence from Central Asia","authors":"Zarema Akhmadiyeva , Thomas Herzfeld","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107964","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107964","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Secure land tenure is widely believed to foster agricultural investment. However, farmers’ subjective perceptions of land rights rather than legal entitlements may ultimately shape their land use decisions. This study analyzes how perceived land rights and their discrepancies with written rules influence farmers’ intentions to intensify land use. Building on the Theory of Planned Behavior and survey data from 955 farmers in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, we find that perceived land rights and their discrepancies play an important role in shaping intensification intentions, but through context-specific mechanisms. In Kazakhstan, perceived land rights positively influence farmers’ intentions only indirectly through attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. In Uzbekistan, by contrast, perceived land rights are negatively associated with intensification intentions both directly and indirectly, suggesting that stronger perceived rights may discourage investment under rigid and centralized land governance. Moreover, underuse of legal rights undermines key behavioral drivers among Kazakh farmers, while violations of formal land use restrictions reduce intensification intentions among Uzbek farmers. These findings underscore the need to align formal regulations with local perceptions to enhance land policy effectiveness and tenure security in transitional contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 107964"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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