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Spatiotemporal Fragmentation of Urban Residential Land Use: A Case Study from China

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Global
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land reform
Given the scarcity of land resources in most Chinese cities, the fragmentation of construction land use is a greater constraint than expansion for urban sustainability. Therefore, there is an urgent need to quantify the fragmentation level of construction land use for planning and managing practices. This study focuses on residential land use, which is one of the most important types of construction land use within built-up urban areas.
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Characterizing the Land Shareholding Cooperative: A Case Study of Shanglin Village in Jiangsu, China

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
land reform
The land tenure reform is the key to sustainable development in rural China. Without challenging the collective ownership of land, the land shareholding cooperative (LSC) system came into being and is being strongly endorsed by the authority: It re-collectivizes the contracted land from peasants and enables better regional planning and large-scale modern agricultural production. This paper studies a specific LSC (Shanglin LSC in the Sunan region of the Yangtze River Delta) based on our fieldwork.
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Balancing Rural and Urban Development: Applying Coordinated Urban–Rural Development (CURD) Strategy to Achieve Sustainable Urbanisation in China

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
China
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
land reform
Land in rural China has been under a separate and closed management system for decades even after the urban land reform that started in the late 1980s. The blurred property rights over rural land have been hindering the rural welfare as surplus rural land in sub-urban areas cannot be circulated into more economic use without first being requisitioned by the state. This traditional conversion process creates a lot of problems, among them are the compensation standard as well as displacement of rural residents to the city, where they cannot find adequate welfare protection.
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Urban Land Revenue and Sustainable Urbanization in China: Issues and Challenges

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
China
Urban Tenure
land reform
Since urban land development launched in 1987, urban land transactions and local land leasing revenue have exploded sharply in China. Classical research on urban land use and urbanization often focuses on making decisions and enacting policies of zoning and land use regulations. Scholars from different disciplines have long been aware of this issue and have attempted to account for it with different theories of urbanization. This paper considers urbanization and the associated spatial interaction effect as an alternative factor in China’s urban land revenue.
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Modeling the Relative Contributions of Land Use Change and Harvest to Forest Landscape Change in the Taihe County, China

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
China
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
Forests are under pressure from land use change due to anthropogenic activities. Land use change and harvest are the main disturbances of forest landscape changes. Few studies have focused on the relative contributions of different disturbances. In this study, we used the CA-Markov model, a land-use change model, coupled with a forest landscape model, LANDIS-II, to simulate dynamic change in Taihe County, China, from 2010 to 2050. Scenarios analysis was conducted to quantify the relative contributions of land use change and harvest.
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Analysis of the Relative Sustainability of Land Devoted to Bioenergy: Comparing Land-Use Alternatives in China

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
China
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
When developing land to meet various human needs, conducting assessments of different alternatives regarding their sustainability is critical. Among different alternatives of land-use, devoting land to bioenergy is relatively novel, in high demand, and important for addressing the energy crisis and mitigating carbon emissions. Furthermore, the competition and disputes among limited land-use for bioenergy and the combination of food production and housing are tense. Thus, which alternative of land-use is more sustainable is an important question, yet it is still under-investigated.
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Assessing Impervious Surface Changes in Sustainable Coastal Land Use: A Case Study in Hong Kong

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Hong Kong
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
In Hong Kong, reclamation is the main method for developing new land use areas as most country parks and mountains are protected under a land policy that emphasizes conservation for their high ecological value. Therefore, the land use for urbanized area in Hong Kong is limited, which has become an issue of concern. Hong Kong’s population is increasing; however, the amount of available land use is insufficient to meet the demand. Developing a high density of buildings is one of the critical strategies of Hong Kong’s government.
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What Is Behind Land Claims? Downsizing of a Conservation Area in Southeastern Ecuador

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Ecuador
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
land titling
While an increase in the size and number of conservation areas is expected as part of global environmental commitments, at the same time, Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement, or PADDD, is becoming more frequent worldwide. This paper analyzes the causal relationships between land claims and human settlements on the one hand and the downsizing process of a protective forest in southeastern Ecuador on the other.
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Transforming Cape Vert Informal Settlements

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Global
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
land titling
The lack of land ownership databases in developing countries has influenced inhabitants of these countries to occupy public lands. This situation has resulted in areas of informal housing, commerce, and agriculture, ultimately creating new informal settlements, which are becoming a serious problem in developing countries. These informal settlements contain inhabitants settled on public land without any infrastructure and against the landowner’s wishes.
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Dynamique centrifuge du maraîchage périurbain de Lomé (Togo) en réponse à la pression foncière

Peri-urban market gardening centrifugal dynamics in Lomé (Togo) in response to land pressure

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2017
Togo
urbanization
periurban areas
land conflicts
Cette étude, menée à l’est de la ville de Lomé (capitale et plus grande ville du Togo), met en évidence la dynamique spatiale des cultures maraîchères en réponse à la pression foncière. Des images satellitaires TerraMetrics des archives Google Earth des années 2002, 2008 et 2014 ont été retenues pour l’analyse de l’évolution des périmètres maraîchers. Une enquête de terrain fondée sur des questionnaires semi-structurés a été menée pour identifier les stratégies des maraîchers. Les coordonnées géographiques des points d’observation ont été relevées à l’aide d’un capteur GPS.