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A comprehensive framework for evaluating ecosystem quality changes and human activity contributions in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, China

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107494

Faisal Mumtaz , Jing Li , Qinhuo Liu , Yadong Dong , Chang Liu , Chenpeng Gu , Hu Zhang , Jing Zhao , Mobeen Akhtar , Barjeece Bashir , Wang Xiaohan , Aqil Tariq , Hammad Ul Hussan , Guan Li

Human activities increasingly shape ecosystems, raising critical questions about sustainability and the trade-offs between ecosystem quality and ecosystem services. This study develops a comprehensive framework to evaluate ecosystem quality change (KEQI) changes driven by land use land cover (LULC) shifts and human activities (HA), along with their impacts on ecosystem service values (ESV) in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, two ecologically significant regions in China. The framework integrates five analytical approaches: (i) analyzing LULC dynamics using the Land Change Modeler for Ecological Sustainability (LCMES) and hotspot analysis to identify areas of significant change; (ii) assessing LULC impacts on ecosystem services values using remote sensing data; (iii) separating human activities and climate change contributions through improved residual trend analysis and pixel-based partial correlation coefficients; (iv) evaluating KEQI changes via retention rates and the Ecological Quality Change Rate; and (v) exploring relationships among KEQI, LULC, HA, and ESV using curve-fitting linear regression. The study reveals notable land-use changes, with croplands, grasslands, and urban areas expanding at the cost of bare land, driven largely by human activities, accounting for 93 % in Inner Mongolia and 89 % in Xinjiang. Regions dominated by human activities observe significant KEQI improvements, with values increasing by 13.5–16.6, particularly in Inner Mongolia. However, these improvements often coincided with declining ESV, notably grasslands in Inner Mongolia (-4.92 %) and croplands in Xinjiang. Some areas showed modest ESV increases (+0.88 %). This study underscores the intricate balance between HA, KEQI, and ESV, offering critical insights for sustainable land management in China. Policymakers can use these findings to manage land-use transitions better, align human activities with conservation goals, and promote ecosystem resilience amidst escalating land-use pressures.

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Beware of the reversal of land degradation neutrality in China's drylands

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107493

Siyuan Feng , Wenwu Zhao , Jinming Yan , Fangzhou Xia , Paulo Pereira

China's drylands have long faced severe land degradation, particularly in soil wind and water erosion. Global greening resulting from climate change and human-led ecological restoration efforts, such as tree planting and afforestation, have enabled China's drylands to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN) in 2020, marking a significant milestone in environmental management. However, sustaining this status faces uncertainties due to severe climate change and escalating human activities. To address this uncertainty, we evaluated LDN in China's drylands for 2050 under various emission scenarios based on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project platform. LDN was assessed using critical indicators tailored to China's drylands, including land productivity, soil organic carbon, land cover, wind, and water erosion. These indicators assessed LDN based on the "one out, all out" principle. Our findings indicate a potential reversal of LDN in China's drylands by 2050 under various emission scenarios. Recognising the uncertainty is essential for crafting region-specific land management strategies to prevent this reversal and promote sustainable development. This is an opinion paper that evaluates LDN in China's drylands for 2050 under various emission scenarios through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project platform, which emphasises the imperative for adaptive, precise land management policies tailored to the unique challenges faced by China's drylands to ensure long-term resilience and sustainability against adverse climatic and anthropogenic pressures.

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Impact of rising industrial land prices on land-use efficiency in China: A study of underpriced land price

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107490

Yuan Qi , Ruihan Lin , Daolin Zhu

Given China's large population but limited land resources, effective urban land allocation is a significant academic and policy concern. This study focuses on improving industrial land-use efficiency (ILUE) through the lens of industrial land price deviation (ILPD). We innovatively establish criteria for ILPD as a production factor and analyze its effect on ILUE, using data from 105 land price-monitoring cities in China from 2011 to 2019. Our findings show that China's industrial land prices (ILP) have been low, accounting for only 65 % of the land factor profit. Increasing ILP can enhance ILUE, but this effect weakens as underpricing improves. Especially in large and small cities, rising ILP eventually stops improving ILUE. A possible reason is that the marginal cost of land expansion due to rising ILP approaches or exceeds the marginal return, undermining market competitiveness and reducing ILUE. We also found that large cities are more resilient to increased industrial land costs than small cities. In the future, the Chinese government should address underpriced industrial land by guiding land prices to a reasonable level, considering moderation and heterogeneity.

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How land property rights affect the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services: A review

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107496

Haojie Chen , Matthew R. Sloggy , Samuel Evans

We conducted a qualitative literature review and provided a theoretical discussion of how private, common, and public land property rights (LPRs) uniquely influence the effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES). We considered three aspects of PES’s effectiveness: additionality (PES programs typically employ tests to assess whether the payment will result in additional ecosystem services), socioeconomic impacts, and transaction costs. The existing literature has not addressed differences between LPR types with respect to ensuring additionality. Particularly striking is the lack of consideration of additionality on public and common lands. Future research can assess whether private LPRs are more favorable for ensuing additionality than common and public LPRs. We found that most existing tests for additionality are for private lands, likely due to financial payment on private lands having more leverage to change land uses or technology in ways that can result in changes to ecosystem service provisions beyond baseline levels. While existing studies have shown more diverse socioeconomic impacts (e.g., on equity among community members) on common lands than on private and public lands, socioeconomic impacts between private and public lands have been insufficiently compared. Whether public LPR are associated with higher or lower transaction costs than private and common LPRs also remains unclear, although existing literature has indicated some strengths (e.g., reducing the number of PES contracts) and limitations (e.g., mistrust, contested leadership) of common lands for saving transaction costs compared to private lands. Quantitative literature reviews and more empirical evidence from real-world cases are needed to further assess the strengths and limitations of different types of LPR for enhancing PES’s effectiveness.

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Beyond stormwater management: Exploring the social aspects of retrofitting raingardens for deprivation alleviation in Gloucestershire, UK

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107489

Sasha Liddle , Alessio Russo

In the face of climate change, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) emerge as key components of urban resilience. These systems offer a multifunctional and holistic approach, aiming to address both environmental and socioeconomic priorities concurrently. While the environmental benefits are clear, the impact of SuDS on socioeconomic disparities is a nascent area of inquiry. This paper aims to address this gap by evaluating the extent to which raingarden (bioretention) retrofit - as a flexible SuDS solution - may alleviate areas of urban deprivation through the host of amenity benefits they afford. Thematic and statistical analysis of survey data completed by residents of Gloucestershire reveals that the dual benefits of enhanced neighbourhood aesthetics combined with flood risk mitigation is most valued. Although there is limited scope to address physical health and crime deprivation, the perceived benefit to wellbeing through the mitigation of anxieties relating to flood risk is poignant. Matters of maintenance and distrust in the systems and authorities responsible for their upkeep are the most apparent obstacle to support for raingardens which must be addressed for the success of retrofit projects.

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Policy integration of forest ecosystem services-Cases of Catalonia, Estonia, Grisons, and Hesse & Thuringia

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107478

Ester Hertegård , Camilla Widmark

To ensure the long-term utilization of various services provided by forest ecosystems (FES), it is crucial that policy governing different FES are sustainable. To achieve this, policy coherence and choice of policy implementation is fundamental. This case study provides an insight in policy contexts for FES across Europe, illustrates how policies are targeting the same objectives, and identifies the synergies and conflicts in important nexuses. The aim is to use the measures of policy integration and implementation to highlight how forest ecosystem services are integrated in policy, to potentially increase the synergies and determine the suitable level of governing for future policymaking. The case study regions included are Catalonia (Spain), Estonia, Grisons (Switzerland), and Hesse & Thuringia (Germany), which represent a wide geographical span of European forests. The results indicate that the active policies governing FES are to a high degree adjusted to the region-specific forests, and showcase integration of environmental priorities, in accordance with EU-targets concerning forests and forestry. The findings of this study can help guide EU forest-related policy and broaden the perspective compared to earlier studies by including a unique composition of EU- and non-EU-member countries.

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Unpacking property owners’ perceptions of flood damage

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107479

B. Ayça Ataç-Studt , Thomas Hartmann , Lenka Slavíková

Floods cause damage to lands and thereby often prevent property owners from using their property in the way they intend. Because of flood damage, property owners face challenges such as destruction and decreased value of their property, not finding tenants, etc. While land policy predominantly treats damage as solely economic, it also has emotional and social implications. Memories linked to a home, a spatial attachment to a specific piece of land, or a family legacy are only a few examples. Just like the values that property owners assign to their properties differ, so do their perceptions of damage. Perception of property forms the basis that shapes how damage is perceived. Despite the vast literature on risk perception and awareness, discussions in flood management mainly focus on assessing the likelihood of disasters. Noticeably, there is a lack of emphasis on flood damage itself, especially concerning damage to private property. Considering that the definition of damage influences the land policy measures taken on private property, there is a need to explore property owners’ perceptions of damage to provide more effective land policy responses. Therefore, this research analyzes how property owners perceive and interpret flood damage on their private property. Social aspects such as personal experience, cultural background, and demographic profile all influence these perceptions. Furthermore, this research outlines how the mismatch between land policies and property owners’ perceptions of damage is an obstacle to effectively combating the consequences of flooding on private property. A qualitative case study is conducted in a small-scale district in Türkiye’s Western Black Sea Basin. This study includes narrative interviews with local property owners. These interviews reveal the property owners’ multiple perceptions of flood damage and show the mismatch between land policy responses and the needs of the property owners. The findings from this research show that the existing land policy instruments are often too generic and are not tailored to the needs of the property owners.

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Drivers to adopt agroforestry and sustainable land-use innovations: A review and framework for policy

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107468

Aiora Zabala , Unai Pascual , Luis Enrique García-Barrios , Nibedita Mukherjee

What influences individuals' decisions to adopt sustainable land-use practices? The drivers of such complex decisions are manyfold. We develop a conceptual framework of the predictors that are external (contextual), related to the innovation, and internal or intrinsic to individuals. This framework can guide the design and evaluation of policies to encourage such decisions and subsequent behaviour. The conceptual framework is based on a literature review that includes empirical qualitative and quantitative analyses, mainly focused on agroforestry and its subtype, silvopasture. We inventoried 207 adoption drivers (predictors) used across the studies reviewed. We grouped these predictors into key concepts along these categories: farm and household characteristics, social environment and institutions, individual objective and subjective factors, and variables related to the land-use practice (knowledge, technical feasibility and economically rational motives). The concepts in the framework incorporate and enhance those proposed in earlier reviews of adoption of a range of sustainable land-use practices (soil conservation, organic farming, conservation agriculture, ecological farming practices, etc.). The framework is also interdisciplinary and comprehensive by including behavioural, socioeconomic and biophysical factors. It is applicable to a range of sustainable farming innovations. It can be used to evaluate policy ex-ante, by assessing what place-based conditions or barriers may need to be addressed through tailored policy instruments, as well as to inform the selection of explanatory variables in ex-post evaluations.

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An opinion regarding the grid layout as a goal and parameter

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107481

Lawrence W.C. Lai , Stephen N.G. Davies , Hon Chim Chiu , Ken S.T. Ching

This opinion paper has the goal of offering two opinions as a guide for further and better research on the grid layout motivated by its coming back to planning research and practice. By analytical reasoning referencing relevant researches and real world examples, it gives from a town planner’s perspective an account for both the popularity and resilience of the grid layout. The first opinion is that the grid layout (gridiron (orthogonal/rectangular)) is a default planning option in relation to the town and country layout or pattern of land apportionment. The second and more important, based on two case studies (one from colonial Hong Kong and another from the southern bank of the River Clyde, in Glasgow, Scotland), is that the conversion of an informal and customary layout into a formal grid land pattern and its subsequent modification is, in the word of Libecap et al. (2011), a major “institutional change” that involves high transaction costs measured in terms of time. Seven research issues are discussed.

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For or against sustainable development? A geospatial analysis of the state of green space ecosystems in West Gonja, Ghana

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Land Use Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107480

Stephen Biliyitorb Liwur , Abdul Rashid Adam , Jacob Nchagmado Tagnan , Sadisu Sadique , Michael Osei Asibey , Stephen Appiah Takyi , Owusu Amponsah

The impacts of urban growth on green space ecosystems have consistently remained in the dailies of sustainability on numerous platforms. Despite the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aiming to ensure urban sustainability, many regions struggle to achieve these targets. In light of this, this study investigated the state of green space ecosystems in Ghana's Guinea Savannah (West Gonja) and clinched the findings to the quest for global sustainability, whether it is against or for the agenda. Methodologically, geospatial and remote sensing techniques were employed to analyse the state of green spaces, revealing a dire situation: few green spaces exist (8.70 % in 2000 to 8.51 % in 2021), and they are rapidly depleting due to rising land surface temperatures (48.93°C in 2000–93.65°C in 2021), leading to intense urban heat islands (12.95 °F in 2000–52.38 °F in 2021). Anchored on this, the researchers concluded from this study’s discussions that the state of green space ecosystems in Ghana’s Guinea Savannah is against the pursuit of a global sustainable development agenda, particularly SDG 15. The researchers, therefore, recommend that countries like Ghana fully adopt the SDG targets, incorporating the services of ecosystems and the values of biodiversity into urban planning and policy-making.

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