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{"title":"User-centric dimensions of trust and acceptance in blockchain adoption for land administration systems: A systematic literature review","authors":"Opeyemi Ajayi ,&nbsp;Riekkinen Kirsikka ,&nbsp;Oluwafemi Adekola","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107944","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107944","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Blockchain technology has emerged as a disruptive force with the potential to support the securitisation of tenure in land administration systems (LAS). Like in every new and emerging technologies, ‘trust and acceptance’ play significant roles in stakeholders’ intention to either embrace or reject the adoption of blockchain technology in LAS. While previous research on the topic has placed considerable attention on the potential of adopting blockchain for improving LAS, limited attention has been placed on understanding the user-centric dimensions of trust and acceptance. To address this gap, this study conducted a systematic literature review on the user-centric dimensions of trust and acceptance influencing blockchain technology adoption for LAS. The analysis employs two complementary theoretical frameworks: the Multilevel Trust (MLT) framework to categorize trust factors, and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to guide the analysis of acceptance factors. The results categorize the key factors influencing stakeholders' trust into three dimensions: trust in technology (data privacy and control, security), trust in administrative processes (traceability and transparency), and trust in institutions (regulation and legal compliance), while performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions emerge as the key factors that influence stakeholders’ acceptance. Drawing upon these findings, a conceptual framework was developed to illustrate the interrelationship between the trust and acceptance factors influencing stakeholders’ intention to either embrace or reject the adoption of blockchain for LAS. This research contributes to the literature on emerging technology adoption for LAS, which may help land administration stakeholders take suitable measures to address stakeholder concerns and thereby promote blockchain technology adoption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 107944"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146000533","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}

{"title":"A new scenario architecture to capture granularity of governance within and across Shared Socioeconomic Pathways","authors":"Simo Sarkki ,&nbsp;Sirpa Rasmus ,&nbsp;Joachim Otto Habeck ,&nbsp;Heidrun Matthes ,&nbsp;Mia Pihlajamäki ,&nbsp;Jussi T. Eronen","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107926","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107926","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scenario work is a prominent possibility to understand and address pressing socio-environmental sustainability challenges of today and tomorrow. Scenarios depict the possible futures for land-use, and land-use pressures. In this conceptual paper, we propose a novel governance-focused scenario architecture consisting of 1) Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), or exploratory scenario archetypes, which explore future uncertainties affected by chosen drivers; 2) Shared Governance Assumptions: governance modes that define the logic of decision-making across the SSPs, and that change the future governance landscapes; and 3) Detailed Governance Assumptions: specific opportunities for agency offered by the varying future governance landscapes defined by SSP – Shared Governance Assumption combinations. We propose a six-step process to employ our scenario architecture, and use the case of land use and Arctic reindeer herding as a brief illustration. We find that our proposed scenario architecture i) offers a structured way to diversify SSP-based scenario sets and to connect SSPs strongly to policy and governance, ii) can be used to explore actor-based trade-offs, and iii) can be used to as a tool for anticipatory governance. Further work is needed to provide empirical applications of our scenario architecture and to innovatively compare and examine implications of different governance modes to targeted normative objectives (i.e. the granularity of governance) within and across SSPs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 107926"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145963281","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}

{"title":"Governing non-grain production of farmland: A differentiated strategy based on grain production loss risk","authors":"Dan Huang ,&nbsp;Yanchi Lu ,&nbsp;Zhaomin Tong ,&nbsp;Bowen Pang ,&nbsp;Yaolin Liu ,&nbsp;Yanfang Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Against the dual backdrop of escalating global grain security risks and deepening urban-rural development transformation, coordinating grain security with increased farmer income has become a critical challenge in land management. The non-grain production of farmland (NGPF) phenomenon epitomizes this contradiction. Current governance approaches primarily focus on managing existing issues and implementing universal policies, lacking proactive prediction and forward-looking warning for potential occurrence zones and the resulting grain security risks. Therefore, this study developed an integrated analytical framework comprising “probability prediction—risk assessment—categorical governance.” Taking Hubei Province as a case study, the research area was divided into three zones based on agricultural functional differences: the urban agriculture zone (UAZ), the major grain-producing zone (MGZ), and the characteristic agricultural products zone (CAPZ), with research conducted separately for each zone. Specifically, this study first predicted the NGPF probability using the Maxent model and analyzed its driving mechanisms. Subsequently, it combined the probability-loss assessment model to quantify the potential risks of NGPF to unit and total grain yields. Finally, for medium-to-high-risk areas, the SOM+k-means clustering method was employed to identify dominant driver bundles and formulate differentiated governance strategies accordingly. The results indicate that NGPF exhibits significant regional heterogeneity: UAZ is primarily driven by irrigation convenience (16.4 %), mechanization level (16.5 %), and aggregation index (14.6 %), exhibiting the highest probability of NGPF conversion; CAPZ is primarily driven by the combined effects of distance from town (13.6 %), proportion of aging agricultural labor force (17.6 %), and percentage of people with contracted management rights (10 %), ranking second in probability; MGZ is jointly driven by mechanization level (27.1 %), percentage of permanent basic farmland (17.6 %), proportion of aging agricultural labor force (12.3 %), and average educational attainment of the rural population (11.7 %), exhibiting the lowest probability. Risk analysis reveals that unit grain yield loss risk follows the pattern of UAZ &gt; MGZ &gt; CAPZ. MGZ, characterized by large farmland sizes and a high multiple crop index, exhibits the most pronounced total grain yield loss risk, with a 30 m raster scale mean of 115.59 kg, followed by UAZ (103.82 kg) and CAPZ (68.55 kg). Based on these findings, the study further subdivided medium-to-high-risk farmland across the three agricultural zones into spatial governance units with clearly dominant risk mechanisms, proposing targeted governance measures. This framework provides support for the forward-looking and differentiated governance of NGPF.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 107924"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145956928","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}

{"title":"How does land transfer intervention promote farmers’ land investment? Evidence from China","authors":"Zhiqiang Cheng,&nbsp;Jinyang Cai","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Land investment plays a critical role in sustainable land use and agricultural development, but little is known about how to effectively promote land investment. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey, this study explores how land transfer interventions stimulate farmers’ land investment. This study finds that land transfer interventions significantly enhance investment in leased land. The main reason for this is that interventions have increased the level of formalization of land transfers, including payment of rental, cash transactions, and defined lease durations. Meanwhile, interventions extended the duration of land leases and enlarged the areas leased. Moreover, interventions during the negotiation and pricing stages, supervisory stages, and governmental involvement exert the most pronounced influence on land investment. Finally, this study also finds that interventions increase household expenditures on fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds except for leased land. The findings above offer valuable insights for policymakers aiming to refine land institutions and promote land investments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 107918"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145929196","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}

{"title":"Characteristics and key drivers of virtual urban land flows in China","authors":"Haimeng Liu ,&nbsp;Jieyang Xiong ,&nbsp;Tao Song","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding virtual urban land flows is crucial for assessing the environmental impacts of urbanization (SDG 11), optimizing land resource use (SDG 12), and addressing regional inequalities (SDG 10). This study employs an environmentally extended multi-regional input–output model to quantify interprovincial virtual urban land flows in China for 2007, 2012, and 2017, links them to actual urban built-up land to reveal the urban human-nature relationship. Social network analysis is used to reveal the overall spatial structure of flow networks and identify critical provinces, while Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation is applied to explore key drivers. The results show that virtual urban land embedded in interprovincial trade has become a structurally important component of China’s urbanization, with flows expanding rapidly and accounting for about 30 % of national urban built-up land. On average, 46.58 % of provinces’ urban land demand is met by other provinces. Flows are predominantly domestic and spatially uneven, with net transfers from eastern and northeastern provinces to central and western regions, where virtual land consumption in many cases exceeds local built-up land. The virtual land network has become denser and more interconnected over time, yet clear east–west and north–south gradients in centrality persist. Economic development, urban population density, migration, and fiscal capacity promote virtual land flows, whereas technological innovation reduces them, and spatial distance plays a relatively weak role. This study sheds new light on the telecoupled dynamics linking regional trade and urban expansion. The methodological framework is readily transferable to other countries and regions, and the findings offer practical guidance for policymakers seeking to optimize regional urbanization, industrial layout, and urban land management in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 107923"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145929197","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}

{"title":"Rethinking and reconciling the land–energy conflicts from centralized photovoltaics in China","authors":"Ning Zhang ,&nbsp;Zeguo Yang ,&nbsp;Hongzhou Wang ,&nbsp;Huabo Duan ,&nbsp;Jiakuan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the world accelerates its low-carbon transition, the rapid expansion of centralized solar photovoltaics (PV) has received extensive concerns on land-use competition and environmental trade-offs. Here we construct a spatially explicit assessment framework to quantify the ecological and economic implications of PV land occupation across 367 mainland Chinese cities in 31 provinces. We integrate high-resolution PV infrastructure mapping with baseline land-use classifications and region-specific indicators of land productivity, economic output, and terrestrial carbon sequestration. This combined dataset is used to estimate land occupation, food loss, and reductions in terrestrial carbon sinks, and to design city-level spatial optimization and wind–solar substitution scenarios. enabling a comprehensive. By 2020, centralized PV installations occupied 1910 ± 116 km² of land, and the footprint is projected to exceed 30,000 km² by 2060. While grasslands and barren lands comprise the largest shares by area, cropland, occupying only 22 % of the total land, accounts for most agricultural and carbon sink losses due to its high biomass productivity. Moreover, the study also identified widespread land–value mismatches, where many cities disproportionately convert their most economically valuable land. City-level spatial optimization scenarios show that relocating 30 % of PV to lower-value land could halve food and carbon sink losses, and that substituting terrestrial and offshore wind for PV in selected cities could probably reduce land use by more than 90 %. These findings highlight the need to integrate ecological and economic value into solar siting and national decarbonization planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 107925"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145929198","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}

{"title":"Environmental performance and urban land competitiveness: Insights from mega sport event bidding outcomes","authors":"Xiaoan Wang ,&nbsp;Lei Hu ,&nbsp;Jingyi Wang ,&nbsp;Zhibo Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107921","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107921","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mega sport event bidding increasingly requires strong environmental credentials, sustainability governance, and urban competitiveness. This study investigates 70 Olympic and FIFA World Cup bids from 1998 to 2020, using 15 environmental indicators spanning air, water, vegetation, and waste domains. Applying logistic regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost models, we identify key environmental determinants and employ SHAP analysis for interpretability. Results show that air quality is the most decisive signal, followed by water, vegetation, and waste management has gained importance since London 2012. Ante-event performance carries the greatest weight, and Olympic bids emphasize broad, legacy-oriented plans, whereas FIFA bids focus more on localized air pollution and sanitation. Host countries generally outperformed unsuccessful bidders in post-event indicators, confirming the value of credible pre-bid commitments. The findings underscore that environmental performance is now critical to event governance and provide actionable guidance for countries to integrate sustainability into bidding strategies and urban development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 107921"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145929199","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}

{"title":"Optimizing county-level land use for sustainable photovoltaic development in China: A multi-scenario analysis","authors":"Xiaohuan Xie ,&nbsp;Senhong Cai ,&nbsp;Haifeng Deng ,&nbsp;Shengyuan Li ,&nbsp;Xin Liu ,&nbsp;Zhonghua Gou","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107920","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107920","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Land scarcity in China intensifies conflicts between photovoltaic (PV) infrastructure and agricultural, ecological, and urban land uses. This study addresses the gap in county-level research by proposing a novel framework integrating land-type clustering, multi-objective optimization, and geospatial simulation to evaluate sustainable land use under PV expansion scenarios. Analyzing 562 counties in central and eastern China, counties are categorized into woodland-dominant, farmland-dominant, urban-dominant, and balanced types. Three scenarios are assessed: PV development (PV), business-as-usual (BS), and low-carbon emission (CE). The PV scenario balances BS and CE, curbing carbon source expansion while protecting farmland—e.g., farmland in Cangnan (woodland-dominant), Sheyang (farmland-dominant), and Lingbao (balanced) counties increased by 1.09 %, 2.35 %, and 1.1 % versus CE. Farmland-dominant and balanced counties show high adaptability, with economic and environmental benefits rising 67 % and 37 %. Urban-dominant counties have limited PV potential, and woodland-dominant counties are unsuitable for large-scale PV, with total benefits dropping 1 % and ecological impacts rising. Medium-density PV (80 % coverage) maximizes returns, with a 20.25-year payback. Policies should prioritize PV on agricultural and construction lands in farmland-dominant and balanced counties, while protecting ecology in urban- and woodland-dominant ones to support carbon neutrality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 107920"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145908930","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}

{"title":"Reinterpreting Japanese planning tools in the global south: A viewpoint from policy transfer to knowledge co-production","authors":"Norihisa Shima","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107917","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107917","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Against the urban duality challenges of the Global South under high urbanization pressure, (1) rapid urbanization versus emerging population decline, (2) formal planning systems versus informal urban growth, and (3) global urban development versus local community management, planning tools of Japan, which experienced rapid urbanization would be effective, but not as a model but as a reference. This paper aims to set a viewpoint on how selected Japanese strategic planning tools, that is, agile master planning, urban growth boundaries, and basic building regulations, can serve the Global South cities by interpreting them from the concepts of policy mobility, lesson-drawing, and hybridity.</div><div>Through illustrative case studies from the selected cities of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the analysis demonstrated that Japan’s tools offer heuristic value in addressing key dualities. And it highlighted that Japanese planning principles act as a catalyst, prompting reinterpretations and the co-production of hybrid knowledge in diverse contexts of the Global South. In turn, the insights gained from those processes would offer valuable lessons for Japan's own contemporary challenges. Recognizing this two-way learning loop is the key to moving beyond one-way policy transfer and fostering a truly global planning culture rooted in collaborative problem-solving.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 107917"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145908929","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}

{"title":"Challenges of soil health restoration in Tunisian cereal production systems: an analysis through the social-ecological systems framework (SES)","authors":"Aya Khamassi ,&nbsp;Maria Helena Guimarães ,&nbsp;Fraj Chemak ,&nbsp;Amélie Bourceret ,&nbsp;Mélanie Requier-Desjardins ,&nbsp;Stelios Rozakis","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Soil health is essential for sustainable and resilient agricultural systems, supporting food production and maintaining vital ecosystem services. In the Mediterranean region, including Tunisia, it is seriously threatened by both natural and anthropogenic factors, such as erosion, loss of organic matter, intensive agricultural practices, and inadequate land management. In this context, adopting farming practices that can preserve and restore soil health is crucial, but such a transition is far from straightforward. To explore what this transition entails, we applied the Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) framework as the guiding structure for our methodological approach. Data was collected through a literature review, eleven semi-structured interviews, a multi-actor workshop involving twenty participants, and a multi-criteria analysis. Results reveal a combination of technical, political, institutional, economic, and socio-cultural barriers that hinder the adoption of practices that can secure soil health. The most critical include (1) the absence of agricultural policies supporting transition, (2) limited communication and cooperation among actors, and (3) high implementation costs. The study concludes by emphasizing the need for a coordinated national strategy that fosters cross-sectoral collaboration and provides effective support for farmers transitioning toward sustainable soil management in Tunisia’s cereal systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 107909"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145785811","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}