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Farm size and smallholders’ use of intercropping in Northwest China

Land Use Policy Volume 99

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
China
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
smallholders
Intercropping, i.e. the cultivation of crop species mixtures, can potentially reduce pressure on land resources by generating higher yields through exploitation of complementarities between crop species. Although intercropping is practiced on a non-negligible proportion of China’s arable land, little is known about the factors that influence farmers’ decisions to use intercropping. In this study we develop a theoretical framework that distinguishes exogenous factors from endogenous factors in farmers’ activity choices in general and the use of intercropping in particular.
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Varieties of agri-environmental schemes in China: A quantitative assessment

Land Use Policy Volume 71

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2018
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
environment
land use
research
Agri-environmental schemes have become an effective policy measure to prompt farmers to protect rural farmland and landscapes. In recent years, 17 provincial governments including Sichuan, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangxi and Guangdong have shown increasing interest in promoting local experimentation with agri-environmental schemes.
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Stakeholder power relations in Land Value Capture: comparing public (China) and private (U.S.) dominant regimes

Land Use Policy Volume 91

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2020
China, Norway, Russia, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land value capture
private property
research
Understanding stakeholder power relations—such as between land sellers, land buyers, and local governments—is crucial to understanding Land Value Capture (LVC). While scholars have focused on stakeholder relationships through approaches such as stakeholder salience, stakeholder interaction, stakeholder value network, and stakeholder multiplicity, much research either places insufficient focus on power or only stresses partial attributes of power. As a result, the role of power relations among key stakeholders in LVC remains insufficiently explored.
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Triangulation in participation: Dynamic approaches for science-practice interaction in land-use decision making in rural China

Land Use Policy Volume 72

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2018
China, Norway, Russia, United States of America
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
sustainable land use
Land use decision making requires knowledge integration from a wide range of stakeholders across science and practice. Many participatory methods and instruments aiming at such science-practice interaction have been developed during the last decades. However, there are methodological challenges, and little evidence neither about the methodological applicability and practicability under diverse socio-political conditions nor about their dynamics. The objective of this paper is to offer some insights on the design and implementation of reasonable science-practice interaction.
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Exploring the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation for policy implications

Land Use Policy Volume 76

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2018
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land use change
research
Cash crops have kept expanding at an accelerating rate across the globe during the last decades. It therefore requires elaborate efforts to examine the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation. With a case of the Hangzhou region in subtropical China, this paper investigated the dynamic patterns of four cash crop types (tea, fruit, mulberry and nursery) at town level by using aerial photos; and then quantified the subsequent socioeconomic and ecological consequences using spatial regression.
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Identifying drivers of land degradation in Xilingol, China, between 1975 and 2015

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
United States of America, China, Russia, Norway
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
land use
research
Land degradation occurs in all kinds of landscapes over the world, but the drivers of land degradation vary from region to region. Identifying these drivers at the appropriate spatial scale is an essential prerequisite for developing and implementing appropriate area-specific policies. In this study, we investigate nine different driving factors in three categories: human disturbance, water condition, and urbanisation.
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Transfer of development rights, farmland preservation, and economic growth: a case study of Chongqing’s land quotas trading program

Land Use Policy Volume 95

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
development
farmland
land use
research
urbanization
The dilemma between preserving farmland and urbanization has attracted many policymakers’ attention. One sound solution that has been practiced in several developed countries is the “transfer of development rights” (TDR). This study examines a specific TDR program in China—the Chongqing Land Quotas Trading program. We use a synthetic control method on the 2001–2014 statistics of 57 prefectures to quantitatively assess the program’s effect on farmland preservation and economic growth.
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Public-private partnership in enhancing farmers’ adaptation to drought: Insights from the Lujiang Flatland in the Nu River (Upper Salween) valley, China

Land Use Policy Volume 71

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2018
Canada, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
farmers
land use
research
sustainable land management
Agriculture is an important type of land use but suffers from drought, especially under global climate change scenarios. Although government is a major actor in helping farmers to adapt to drought, lack of funds has constrained its efforts. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mechanism has been widely applied in urban infrastructure development to raise fund for public goods and services, but very few studies explored its role in rural areas.
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Does Urban planning affect urban growth pattern? A case study of Shenzhen, China

Land Use Policy Volume 101

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
United States of America, China, Russia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
urban planning
urbanization
urban areas
land use
research
It is essential to understand how urban plans affect urban growth patterns in order to improve current urban planning and management systems. Few studies have been conducted to analyse urban growth patterns of Shenzhen, an international megacity located in southern China, but none of them revealed the relationships between urban planning and urban growth patterns. This study explores the effects of urban master plans on urban growth patterns in different plan periods in Shenzhen. We first quantified the urban growth patterns comparing pixel- and patch-based methods.
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Urban expansion dynamics and modes in metropolitan Guangzhou, China

Land Use Policy Volume 72

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2018
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
Urbanization changes urban landscapes and results in ecological and environmental problems. To solve these problems, it is essential to quantify the dynamics of urban expansion and better understand the modes of urban sprawl. This study evaluated urbanization in metropolitan Guangzhou, China from 1990 to 2020 and explored its modes of urban growth using Landsat Thematic Mapper images and simulated landscape maps based on the Conversion of Land Use and its Effects (CLUE) modeling framework.