Pub Date : 2025-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107462
Lijing Wang, Lu Zhang, Yi Xiao, Lingqiao Kong, Zhiyun Ouyang
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a rapidly urbanizing region home to 36 million people. However, it is also a hotspot for biodiversity conservation and a key provider of ecosystem services for Asia. Therefore, there is notable conflict between the needs for ecosystem protection and land development for food production and urbanization as the region’s population continues to grow and urban areas develop further. To resolve this conflict, ecosystem protection indicators, including protected area, ecological degradation, and the importance of ecosystem services, must be intertwined with cropland and urban land development. We identified suitable areas for cropland and urban within the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and then evaluated the potential impacts under four scenarios: ecological protection priority, balanced consideration, development area priority, and conventional scenario. Under the ecological protection priority scenario, the total suitable areas for cropland and urban are 16507.76 km2 and 3339.61 km2, respectively, and their total area accounted for 0.69 % in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In addition, the loss of key ecosystem services is less than 3.33 % under the scenario, which is the smallest loss among all scenarios. Correspondingly, the grain yield and the gross regional product are expected to increase by 30.15 % and 88.88 %, respectively. This is especially notable as ecosystem services decreased by 8.01 %–16.30 % under the conventional scenario. Therefore, we recommend land development under the ecological protection priority scenario for the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Our research provides a reference for the sustainability of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
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Various levels of Chinese governments have implemented several intensive land use policies (ILUP) to manage the unending extensive urbanization. However, the aspect of conflicting interests and goals at the national level (NL), local levels (LL) and land users (LU) creates resistance to the implementation of ILUP. Recognizing and studying the conflicting nature of the three parties is beneficial to mitigate the challenges of policy implementation. This paper aims to clarify the conflict mechanisms among actors in intensive land use and provide insights into mitigating conflicts in the ILUP transmission process. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches based on tripartite evolutionary game model were used to address the antagonism in policy implementation. The findings suggest that: (1) Policy transmission mainly led by the NL, while collaboration between the LL and LU can facilitate such transmission. (2) The interaction between LL and LU exhibits an asymmetric impact. Notably, increasing the participation intention of LU alone (20 %-40 %) has a greater effect compared to LL (40 %-60 %). (3) Enforcement of punitive measures (40 %-60 %) proves to be more efficient than rewarding measures (over 60 %) with regards to policy transmission. Moreover, direct role of NL to LL facilitates cooperation. (4) The priority of the mechanism of costs-benefits variables is as follows: reducing policy implementation costs of LL (around 15 %) > decreasing costs for LU = increasing benefits for LU (10 %-20 %) > increasing policy implementation benefits of LL (40 %-60 %) > lowering supervision costs of NL (around 100 %) > increasing external benefits of NL. This paper takes game theory to recognize and mitigate the contradictory relationship between the three parties, and provides insightful suggestions for a more effective future policy evolution.
{"title":"Mitigating conflicts in the implementation of intensive land use policies: Insights from a tripartite evolutionary game model","authors":"Shouguo Zhang , Jianjun Zhang , Yixin Dai , Ling Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107460","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107460","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Various levels of Chinese governments have implemented several intensive land use policies (ILUP) to manage the unending extensive urbanization. However, the aspect of conflicting interests and goals at the national level (NL), local levels (LL) and land users (LU) creates resistance to the implementation of ILUP. Recognizing and studying the conflicting nature of the three parties is beneficial to mitigate the challenges of policy implementation. This paper aims to clarify the conflict mechanisms among actors in intensive land use and provide insights into mitigating conflicts in the ILUP transmission process. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches based on tripartite evolutionary game model were used to address the antagonism in policy implementation. The findings suggest that: (1) Policy transmission mainly led by the NL, while collaboration between the LL and LU can facilitate such transmission. (2) The interaction between LL and LU exhibits an asymmetric impact. Notably, increasing the participation intention of LU alone (20 %-40 %) has a greater effect compared to LL (40 %-60 %). (3) Enforcement of punitive measures (40 %-60 %) proves to be more efficient than rewarding measures (over 60 %) with regards to policy transmission. Moreover, direct role of NL to LL facilitates cooperation. (4) The priority of the mechanism of costs-benefits variables is as follows: reducing policy implementation costs of LL (around 15 %) > decreasing costs for LU = increasing benefits for LU (10 %-20 %) > increasing policy implementation benefits of LL (40 %-60 %) > lowering supervision costs of NL (around 100 %) > increasing external benefits of NL. This paper takes game theory to recognize and mitigate the contradictory relationship between the three parties, and provides insightful suggestions for a more effective future policy evolution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 107460"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098301","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 : 2024-12-31DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107464
Andreas Hengstermann , Linda McElduff , Heather Ritchie
The development of land leads to immense increases in land value. Across different planning systems, there are calls for this revenue to be used to enable planning gain for the general public budget. This can be achieved through the use of added value capture: a policy approach rooted in the notion that public action should generate public benefit. Planning literature hypothesises that the successful introduction and implementation of added value capture depends on the rationale during the process of legitimation. Acceptance of the added value capture instrument is higher if it is justified with pragmatic rationales; capturing it for the ‘greater good’, such as financing local social infrastructure. Conversely, if justice-based rationales are referred to (compensating the “unearned increment”), acceptance is lower, as the direct added value for the public is not as apparent. The existence and application of the instrument therefore depends on the rationale, making the analysis of legitimising arguments interesting, even to countries that have not (yet) introduced the instrument. However, studies on legitimacies, legitimations and rationales are rare, and are not adequately considered in existing literature reviews. This paper identifies rationale patterns across different legal traditions. Switzerland and the UK are selected as two countries with different planning systems, but both have experience with added value capture instruments. Discourse analysis is used to analyse key documents at the time of policy change, to determine how the instrument used in each country is officially legitimised and the extent of variation across the different legal traditions.
{"title":"Capturing or compensating? Comparing legitimacies, legitimations and rationales of added value capture instruments","authors":"Andreas Hengstermann , Linda McElduff , Heather Ritchie","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107464","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107464","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The development of land leads to immense increases in land value. Across different planning systems, there are calls for this revenue to be used to enable planning gain for the general public budget. This can be achieved through the use of added value capture: a policy approach rooted in the notion that public action should generate public benefit. Planning literature hypothesises that the successful introduction and implementation of added value capture depends on the rationale during the process of legitimation. Acceptance of the added value capture instrument is higher if it is justified with pragmatic rationales; capturing it for the ‘greater good’, such as financing local social infrastructure. Conversely, if justice-based rationales are referred to (compensating the “unearned increment”), acceptance is lower, as the direct added value for the public is not as apparent. The existence and application of the instrument therefore depends on the rationale, making the analysis of legitimising arguments interesting, even to countries that have not (yet) introduced the instrument. However, studies on legitimacies, legitimations and rationales are rare, and are not adequately considered in existing literature reviews. This paper identifies rationale patterns across different legal traditions. Switzerland and the UK are selected as two countries with different planning systems, but both have experience with added value capture instruments. Discourse analysis is used to analyse key documents at the time of policy change, to determine how the instrument used in each country is officially legitimised and the extent of variation across the different legal traditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 107464"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-29DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107458
Soumya Balasubramanya , Kashi Kafle
The role of labor in the adoption of land restoration activities (LRA) that reduce soil degradation in smallholder agricultural systems has received inadequate attention. We examine the gender-labor dimensions of the adoption of LRAs by smallholder agricultural households in rural Ethiopia, in a context where more than 90 percent of agricultural households have some form of private land tenure security, which is regarded to be an important enabling factor for restoring private agricultural land. We use three panels of Living Standard Measurement Study – Integrated Survey in Agriculture (LSMS—ISA) data between 2010 and 2016 and employ panel data estimators to provide a correlational understanding of the role of male and female labor in the adoption of LRA. We also estimate these relationships for sub-samples of male-headed and female-headed households—to examine heterogeneity in the gender-labor dimensions. Controlling for tenure security, the probability of adopting LRA is significantly higher when agricultural households have greater person-days of female household and female non-household labor. This holds for all both sub-samples of households. The area of land under LRA is positively and significantly most responsive to person-days of female non-household labor in all four types of households as well. Female non-household labor has been critical for increasing the adoption of LRA on private lands of rural households in Ethiopia in recent years. In a context with high incidence of tenure security, the results make a case for continued support towards LRA adoption with a specific focus on reducing labor shortages and drudgery.
{"title":"Adoption of land restoration activities in Ethiopia: Understanding gender-labor dimensions","authors":"Soumya Balasubramanya , Kashi Kafle","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107458","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107458","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of labor in the adoption of land restoration activities (LRA) that reduce soil degradation in smallholder agricultural systems has received inadequate attention. We examine the gender-labor dimensions of the adoption of LRAs by smallholder agricultural households in rural Ethiopia, in a context where more than 90 percent of agricultural households have some form of private land tenure security, which is regarded to be an important enabling factor for restoring private agricultural land. We use three panels of Living Standard Measurement Study – Integrated Survey in Agriculture (LSMS—ISA) data between 2010 and 2016 and employ panel data estimators to provide a correlational understanding of the role of male and female labor in the adoption of LRA. We also estimate these relationships for sub-samples of male-headed and female-headed households—to examine heterogeneity in the gender-labor dimensions. Controlling for tenure security, the probability of adopting LRA is significantly higher when agricultural households have greater person-days of female household and female non-household labor. This holds for all both sub-samples of households. The area of land under LRA is positively and significantly most responsive to person-days of female non-household labor in all four types of households as well. Female non-household labor has been critical for increasing the adoption of LRA on private lands of rural households in Ethiopia in recent years. In a context with high incidence of tenure security, the results make a case for continued support towards LRA adoption with a specific focus on reducing labor shortages and drudgery.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 107458"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889328","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 : 2024-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107459
Shine Dela-Edem Wormenor, Michael Osei Asibey
The occurrence of natural disasters has intensified over the past two decades in African cities with devastating consequences on people and properties. Despite the emergence of improved development of digital technologies (DTs) for disaster risk identification and management, their development and application in Africa largely remain unclear. This study explored the applicability and challenges associated with using DTs in disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) efforts in building resilient cities. Adopting a qualitative research approach, data were gathered through interviews with eight purposively selected national disaster-relevant agencies. It was found that Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) were predominantly used along the three major stages of DRRM. Barriers such as poor internet connectivity, susceptibility to cyberattacks, power outages, financial constraints, low technical expertise and training, and absence of institutional dedication to the existing framework for the use of DTs in DRRM interventions, among others, were however mentioned to impede the safety, the comfortability, dependability, user-friendliness and communicative use of the technologies for DRRM efforts in urban Ghana. The study concludes that due to rapid urbanization and rising intensity in the occurrence and impacts of disasters, prioritizing the development of resilient cities through emphasizing the necessity of digital technologies is paramount.
{"title":"Digital technologies for climate-induced disaster risk reduction and management in Ghana: Applicability and operational challenges","authors":"Shine Dela-Edem Wormenor, Michael Osei Asibey","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107459","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107459","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The occurrence of natural disasters has intensified over the past two decades in African cities with devastating consequences on people and properties. Despite the emergence of improved development of digital technologies (DTs) for disaster risk identification and management, their development and application in Africa largely remain unclear. This study explored the applicability and challenges associated with using DTs in disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) efforts in building resilient cities. Adopting a qualitative research approach, data were gathered through interviews with eight purposively selected national disaster-relevant agencies. It was found that Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) were predominantly used along the three major stages of DRRM. Barriers such as poor internet connectivity, susceptibility to cyberattacks, power outages, financial constraints, low technical expertise and training, and absence of institutional dedication to the existing framework for the use of DTs in DRRM interventions, among others, were however mentioned to impede the safety, the comfortability, dependability, user-friendliness and communicative use of the technologies for DRRM efforts in urban Ghana. The study concludes that due to rapid urbanization and rising intensity in the occurrence and impacts of disasters, prioritizing the development of resilient cities through emphasizing the necessity of digital technologies is paramount.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 107459"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889331","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 : 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107441
Qi Zhang , Cai Jin , Jing Cao , Jing Hu , Chun Dai , Richard E. Bilsborrow , Tan Li , Conghe Song
Rural hollowing, associated with depopulation and cropland abandonment, is a pressing issue under the rapid pace of urbanization. Understanding the emergence of hollowed villages with the abandonment of homestead and cropland is a major objective of halting the waste use of land resources and improving rural social welfare. Here, we apply the agent-based complex system framework to explore the dynamics of rural land systems, focusing on the feedback effects of cropland abandonment and labor migration decisions that are characteristics of the hollowing process. We applied a spatially explicit agent-based model in two study areas in rural China and designed scenarios where farmers treat their cropland parcels and homesteads with and without land attachment. Experimental results show that return-migration plays a more critical role than out-migration in shaping system dynamics and preventing the emergence of hollowed villages when there is strong land attachment. The rate of cropland reclamation following the return-migration outweighs the rate of cropland abandonment, which provide negative feedback to the out-migration decision and subsequently decelerate the process of rural hollowing. Hollowed villages are a manifestation of social-ecological outcomes resulting from human-land interactions with migration trajectories and land use patterns exhibiting nonlinearity, divergence, and even unexpected changes. Our findings highlight the critical need of considering the endogenous feedback effects for policymaking. Policy that aims at rural development and land consolidation should integrate tools helping return-migrants with improved land-use efficiency in addition to rural revitalization.
{"title":"Understanding the role of land attachment in the emergence of hollow villages based on the agent-based complex system framework","authors":"Qi Zhang , Cai Jin , Jing Cao , Jing Hu , Chun Dai , Richard E. Bilsborrow , Tan Li , Conghe Song","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107441","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107441","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural hollowing, associated with depopulation and cropland abandonment, is a pressing issue under the rapid pace of urbanization. Understanding the emergence of hollowed villages with the abandonment of homestead and cropland is a major objective of halting the waste use of land resources and improving rural social welfare. Here, we apply the agent-based complex system framework to explore the dynamics of rural land systems, focusing on the feedback effects of cropland abandonment and labor migration decisions that are characteristics of the hollowing process. We applied a spatially explicit agent-based model in two study areas in rural China and designed scenarios where farmers treat their cropland parcels and homesteads with and without land attachment. Experimental results show that return-migration plays a more critical role than out-migration in shaping system dynamics and preventing the emergence of hollowed villages when there is strong land attachment. The rate of cropland reclamation following the return-migration outweighs the rate of cropland abandonment, which provide negative feedback to the out-migration decision and subsequently decelerate the process of rural hollowing. Hollowed villages are a manifestation of social-ecological outcomes resulting from human-land interactions with migration trajectories and land use patterns exhibiting nonlinearity, divergence, and even unexpected changes. Our findings highlight the critical need of considering the endogenous feedback effects for policymaking. Policy that aims at rural development and land consolidation should integrate tools helping return-migrants with improved land-use efficiency in addition to rural revitalization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 107441"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092740","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 : 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107457
Feng Xu , Huan Wang , Guangqing Chi
Urban land is owned and managed by governments in China, which makes the land conveyance strategy an important policy tool for local governments to sustain a healthy economy. To understand the resource-based capacity of cities to withstand potential economic shocks, it is critically important to explore the impacts of land conveyance on economic resilience from the perspective of marketization. In this study, we measured economic resilience and market-oriented land conveyance in 287 Chinese cities using the unemployment rate and the proportion of the land conveyed in the form of tender, auction, and listing, separately. We employed static and dynamic panel models, the spatial Durbin model, and the mediation model to investigate the direct, spatial, and indirect impacts of land conveyance on regional economic resilience. Our results indicate that market-oriented land conveyance exerts a positive impact on employment-induced resilience. However, the impacts from neighboring cities reverse to negative impacts on local resilience. Specifically, land conveyance positively influences economic resilience indirectly through a variety of channels, including secondary industry and capital markets. This study provides city-level evidence on the impacts of a land use policy on employment-induced resilience and sheds light on policy implications for promoting economic resilience in a period of frequent shocks.
{"title":"Does market-oriented land conveyance affect regional economic resilience? A spatial and mediation analysis based on 287 Chinese cities","authors":"Feng Xu , Huan Wang , Guangqing Chi","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107457","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107457","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban land is owned and managed by governments in China, which makes the land conveyance strategy an important policy tool for local governments to sustain a healthy economy. To understand the resource-based capacity of cities to withstand potential economic shocks, it is critically important to explore the impacts of land conveyance on economic resilience from the perspective of marketization. In this study, we measured economic resilience and market-oriented land conveyance in 287 Chinese cities using the unemployment rate and the proportion of the land conveyed in the form of tender, auction, and listing, separately. We employed static and dynamic panel models, the spatial Durbin model, and the mediation model to investigate the direct, spatial, and indirect impacts of land conveyance on regional economic resilience. Our results indicate that market-oriented land conveyance exerts a positive impact on employment-induced resilience. However, the impacts from neighboring cities reverse to negative impacts on local resilience. Specifically, land conveyance positively influences economic resilience indirectly through a variety of channels, including secondary industry and capital markets. This study provides city-level evidence on the impacts of a land use policy on employment-induced resilience and sheds light on policy implications for promoting economic resilience in a period of frequent shocks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 107457"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143097845","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 : 2024-12-21DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107454
Anahita Azadgar , Giulia Luciani , Lucyna Nyka
With increasing environmental and climate change threats to urban areas, Nature-based Solutions (NbS), including public greenery, are becoming integral components of green infrastructure (GI) networks. These solutions provide multiple benefits in different aspects, including stormwater management, enhanced air quality and improved societal well-being, offering cost-effective and adaptable alternatives to resource-intensive and environmentally harmful grey infrastructure. However, their benefits are often unevenly distributed, resulting in patterns of environmental injustice. This article presents a GIS-based study of the spatial allocation of publicly accessible NbS (PNbS), in Gdansk, Poland, and Rome, Italy. It aims at assessing possible correlations between the socio-economic attributes of the urban districts of the two cities and the density of available PNbS in each district. Results indicate disparities in density of PNbS across different socio-economic layers, more relevant in Rome than in Gdansk, and highlight the importance of informed urban planning. The study supports concerns for fair NbS distribution, pointing to the potential exacerbation of social and economic inequalities, which puts socially vulnerable communities at higher risk of being affected by climate hazards. The results provide insights for policymakers, urging a prioritized focus on districts with crucial PNbS needs. Strategies should consider socio-economic factors to address distributive and environmental justice concerns. Overall, the study offers insights to guide urban planning toward climate-resilient and inclusive cities.
{"title":"Spatial allocation of nature-based solutions in the form of public green infrastructure in relation to the socio-economic district profile–a GIS-based comparative study of Gdańsk and Rome","authors":"Anahita Azadgar , Giulia Luciani , Lucyna Nyka","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107454","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With increasing environmental and climate change threats to urban areas, Nature-based Solutions (NbS), including public greenery, are becoming integral components of green infrastructure (GI) networks. These solutions provide multiple benefits in different aspects, including stormwater management, enhanced air quality and improved societal well-being, offering cost-effective and adaptable alternatives to resource-intensive and environmentally harmful grey infrastructure. However, their benefits are often unevenly distributed, resulting in patterns of environmental injustice. This article presents a GIS-based study of the spatial allocation of publicly accessible NbS (PNbS), in Gdansk, Poland, and Rome, Italy. It aims at assessing possible correlations between the socio-economic attributes of the urban districts of the two cities and the density of available PNbS in each district. Results indicate disparities in density of PNbS across different socio-economic layers, more relevant in Rome than in Gdansk, and highlight the importance of informed urban planning. The study supports concerns for fair NbS distribution, pointing to the potential exacerbation of social and economic inequalities, which puts socially vulnerable communities at higher risk of being affected by climate hazards. The results provide insights for policymakers, urging a prioritized focus on districts with crucial PNbS needs. Strategies should consider socio-economic factors to address distributive and environmental justice concerns. Overall, the study offers insights to guide urban planning toward climate-resilient and inclusive cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 107454"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107456
Zhen Xie , Xiaorui Lin , Chun Jiang , Yuxuan Dang , Xiangbin Kong , Chenyu Lin
The Chinese government is designating protection zones for permanent basic farmland (PBF) to ensure a stable grain supply. However, the disparity between protection responsibilities and economic benefits under traditional control methods leads to suboptimal effectiveness. The Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program is a vital compensation tool for global conservation efforts and plays a key role in the Chinese government's urgent initiative to create a nationwide compensation mechanism for farmland protection and to enhance coordinated regional development. In this study, we propose the integration of the PBF delineation system and the TDR program to establish an inter-provincial compensation system using a zoning-integrative TDR framework under the coupled scenarios of shared socioeconomic pathways and representative concentration pathways (SSPs-RCPs scenarios). Subsequently, we explore inter-provincial compensation zones and reciprocal relationships for TDR. The results indicate that China should maintain 111 and 99 million hectares of PBF in 2035 and 2050, respectively. By 2035, there will be 13 provinces sending and 18 receiving PBF through TDR, and by 2050, Shaanxi Province will have transitioned from being a receiving to a sending region. Ultimately, inter-provincial compensation relationships are determined based on simulated future grain transport patterns. Through reciprocal compensations, the national Gini coefficient is projected to decrease by 0.04 and 0.03 in 2035 and 2050, respectively, indicating that compensation promotes fairness in inter-provincial socio-economic development. This study contributes to the nation's objectives of ensuring grain security, promoting social equity, and protecting high-quality farmland.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107453
Mekonnen Tesfaye Metaferia , Rohan Mark Bennett , Berhanu Kefale Alemie , Mila Koeva , Jerome Donovan
The creation and upkeep of cadastral data is essential for maintaining land and resources and advancing sustainable development. However, developing nations face land use challenges in peri-urban areas due to the fast-paced increase in population and rapid urbanization. Moreover, conventional cadastral surveying methods are neither time nor cost-effective. Automatic feature extraction (AFE) is an emerging alternative to conventional field surveying methods, which can help land sector professionals adhere to the principles of fit-for-purpose land administration (FFPLA). The study aims to test and subsequently affirm the potential of the AFE approach using open-source tools for cadastral mapping in peri-urban areas. It adopts a generalized pre-exiting AFE workflow, utilizing free and open-source tools for the complete solution, including image segmentation, boundary classification, interactive delineation, and validation. High-resolution satellite images and a reference cadastral dataset are used for the pilot. The case location is a peri-urban area in Dukem, with source material obtained from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Land Governance Activity (LGA) Ethiopia branch. The LGA experts actively participated in the pilot testing through demonstrations, hands-on practice, focus group discussions, and questionnaire data collection. The pilot testing demonstrate that interactively delineated cadastral parcel boundaries delivered 66 % correctness for buffer widths of 0.5 and 0.4 m for the reference and interactively extracted boundary lines, respectively. The implemented AFE approach was further evaluated against the FFPLA elements and found to meet the affordability, attainability, flexibility, and upgradeability requirements. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis indicated favorable strengths and opportunities with manageable weaknesses and threats. The approach is supposed to be applicable for cadastral mapping and updating in peri-urban areas and newly emerging towns across the country due to rapid urbanization. Nonetheless, comparisons against conventional non-AFE methods, such as GNSS or total station surveys, in terms of time and cost implications are still needed. Moreover, further enhancement and testing with different land administration settings are recommended to apply the approach to real-world scenarios such as the LGA cadastral mapping project.
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