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The Distributional Effects Associated with Land Finance in China: A Perspective Based on the Urban–Rural Income Gap

by Zixing Wang and Meirong Zhang

Land 2023, 12(9), 1771; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12091771 - 13 Sep 2023

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Land finance has become an important way of generating fiscal incomes in developing countries, while the urban–rural income gap (URIG) in developing countries remains high. However, existing research has not paid much attention to the connection between land finance and the URIG. Therefore, [...] Read more.

Land finance has become an important way of generating fiscal incomes in developing countries, while the urban–rural income gap (URIG) in developing countries remains high. However, existing research has not paid much attention to the connection between land finance and the URIG. Therefore, this study used a fixed-effects model to test this relationship for 275 prefecture-level cities in China from 2014 to 2017. To identify the effects of the potential omitted variables, this study conducted additional robustness checks using placebo tests. The results showed that land finance significantly widened the URIG, and this finding was maintained after a set of tests. Further study found that the effect of land finance on the URIG showed significant heterogeneity. Land grants by tender, listing, and auction significantly widened the URIG, while land grants by agreement did not affect the URIG; the effect of land finance on the URIG was more significant in Eastern and Middle regions, but not marked in Western regions; and land finance had no impact on the URIG in large and medium-sized cities, while it had a significant impact in small cities. Based on the above results, this study offers recommendations to improve land fiscal policy and urban-biased development strategies, which aim to promote the equalization of the basic rights and interests of urban and rural residents and reduce the URIG. Full article

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Sustainable Management of Land Resources: The Case of China’s Forestry Carbon Sink Mechanism

by Hongyi Liu and Tianyu He

Land 2023, 12(6), 1188; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061188 - 06 Jun 2023

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Compared to more developed countries, the use of land resources is less efficient in China. China’s vast forest land area gives it a rich and underutilized carbon sink. This is an important way for China to achieve the goals of “carbon peaking” and [...] Read more.

Compared to more developed countries, the use of land resources is less efficient in China. China’s vast forest land area gives it a rich and underutilized carbon sink. This is an important way for China to achieve the goals of “carbon peaking” and “carbon neutrality”, which is of great significance to China’s sustainable development. In the past 20 years, China has designed a series of policies to serve the development of forestry carbon sinks, namely the forestry carbon sink mechanism (FCSM). However, the questions of which policy is the most important, and what is the socio-economic value it generates, have not been fully investigated. Accordingly, this paper studied 30 provincial-level regions in China from 2005 to 2020 using the difference-in-differences (DID) model. The conclusions show that: (1) the FCSM does increase the socio-economic value of land resources, thus improving the sustainability of land resources; (2) the FCSM helps to increase forest coverage, forest stock volume and the forest coverage rate, which increases the social value of land resources from the greening path; (3) the FCSM helps to increase the gross forestry product, which increases the economic value of land resources through the path of increasing production value. Full article

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Evaluation of the Contribution of Farmland Attributes to the Total Benefit from Its Contamination Remediation: Evidence from Taiwan

by Pei-Ing Wu, Ching-En Su, Je-Liang Liou and Ta-Ken Huang

Land 2023, 12(5), 967; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12050967 - 26 Apr 2023

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This study fills the gap in the existing literature by developing a two-stage quantile spatial Durbin model to evaluate the benefit from the cancellation of controlled contaminated farmlands. The results of monetary benefit are to identify the contribution of farmland attributed to the [...] Read more.

This study fills the gap in the existing literature by developing a two-stage quantile spatial Durbin model to evaluate the benefit from the cancellation of controlled contaminated farmlands. The results of monetary benefit are to identify the contribution of farmland attributed to the change in the total benefit resulting from the cancellation of contaminated farmlands. The results show that the significant impacts are the attributes resulting from the size of the transacted farmland, the distance between the transacted farmland and the main traffic artery, and the price of the construction site where the transacted farmlands are located. The results indicate that for every 1000 square meter increase in farmland size, the farmland price increases by about 45–105% in the non-agricultural planning zone, the Taoyuan Aerotropolis life circle, and decreases by about 81–131% in the agricultural planning zones. Moreover, for the price quantiles of 50% and above, the total benefit from the announcement of contamination cancellation to the ensuing transaction is reflected by an increase in the transaction price of 1.67–12.98% of the total benefit for non-agricultural Taoyuan Aerotropolis life circle zoning. By contrast, the total benefit from the same action taken for the other three agricultural development life circles is reflected by a reduction in the transaction price of 1.89–134.89%. These results indicate that the cancellation of highly priced contaminated farmlands is not anticipated if they are planned for agricultural purposes. Full article

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The Driving Role of Food and Cultivated Land Resource in Balancing the Complex Urban System of Socio-Economy and Environment: A Case Study of Shanghai City in China

by Fangli Ruan

Land 2023, 12(4), 905; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040905 - 18 Apr 2023

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Food is increasingly seen as a vehicle to address complex sustainability challenges, where the quantitative driving role in balancing the complex urban system of socio-economy and environment is still a gap. To fill this gap, taking Shanghai city as an example, this paper [...] Read more.

Food is increasingly seen as a vehicle to address complex sustainability challenges, where the quantitative driving role in balancing the complex urban system of socio-economy and environment is still a gap. To fill this gap, taking Shanghai city as an example, this paper utilizes system dynamics to innovatively set three policy scenarios that aim at adjusting food security and cultivated land resources. The results confirm their positive role in socioeconomic and environmental improvement and coordinated development. In the high-rate grain yield growth scenario, the labor force ratio of the primary industry increases back to the size of 2012 (4.1%), the proportion of the primary industrial investment grows at twice the rate of the current trend, the grain yield per unit area increases back to the capacity of 1997 (798.154 t/km²), and simultaneously, the occupation of cultivated land resources by the secondary industry and the negative impact of environmental pollution on productivity are mitigated. In that case, the coordination level between the socio-economy and the environment can keep increasing. The results indicate that future urban planning should increase the input of labor force and assets in the primary industry, improve food productivity per unit area through technical means or person training, alleviate the occupation of cultivated land resources by the secondary industry, and mitigate the negative impact of environmental pollution on cultivated land productivity. Full article

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Proprietary Varieties’ Influence on Economics and Competitiveness in Land Use within the Hop Industry

by Douglas MacKinnon and Martin Pavlovič

Land 2023, 12(3), 598; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030598 - 02 Mar 2023

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To evaluate changes to hop industry concentration and competitiveness the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) was used. The ownership of hop proprietary varieties, their acreage and production were compared with public varieties. Market share for each proprietary hop variety acreage and production was calculated between [...] Read more.

To evaluate changes to hop industry concentration and competitiveness the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) was used. The ownership of hop proprietary varieties, their acreage and production were compared with public varieties. Market share for each proprietary hop variety acreage and production was calculated between 2000 and 2020. The quantity of land under centralized control in the U.S. hop industry due to increased proprietary variety acreage between 2000 and 2020 was quantified. Assuming tacit collusion between the participants in the oligopoly, the HHI enabled us to quantify the portion of land under oligopoly control. The HHI analysis of hop acreage and hop production demonstrated that market concentration rose rapidly between the years 2010 (0.0376 and 0.0729) and 2020 (0.4927 and 0.5394). This resulted in decreasing business competitiveness within the market during this period caused primarily by rapid consolidation of ownership during increased proprietary variety acreage and production increases. Calculations revealed that in 2016 a tipping point had been reached concerning market concentration, which resulted in higher sustained season average prices of hops—a key raw material in brewing. Full article

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Spatio-Temporal Evolution, Spillover Effects of Land Resource Use Efficiency in Urban Built-Up Area: A Further Analysis Based on Economic Agglomeration

by Naifu Yu, Yingkai Tang and Ying Ma

Land 2023, 12(3), 553; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030553 - 24 Feb 2023

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The Chinese “New Normal” economic model is a national strategy for adapting to sustainable development and offers important implications for the development of new economies. The “New Normal” economic model aims at improving the use efficiency of land resources in the framework of [...] Read more.

The Chinese “New Normal” economic model is a national strategy for adapting to sustainable development and offers important implications for the development of new economies. The “New Normal” economic model aims at improving the use efficiency of land resources in the framework of sustainable development. A discussion of the spatio-temporal evolution of land resource use efficiency (LRUE) in urban built-up areas can help in better assessing LRUE. In this paper, the super-efficiency slack-based measure (Super-SBM) method and spatial econometric models are used to study 281 prefecture-level cities in China between 2004 and 2020. Further, this paper explores the relationship between economic agglomeration and LRUE, which is of great value in managing land resources. The results show that there is a spatial spillover in LRUE and a U-shaped relationship between it and economic agglomeration. Full article

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The Value of Farmland and Its Determinants—The Current State of the Art

by Vasco Capela Tavares, Fernando Tavares and Eulália Santos

Land 2022, 11(11), 1908; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11111908 - 27 Oct 2022

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This article aims to perform a literature review on the topic of farmland valuation, covering the determinants of farmland value and the models that are used to price land. To do so, recent literature on the topic was combined with classical and well-known [...] Read more.

This article aims to perform a literature review on the topic of farmland valuation, covering the determinants of farmland value and the models that are used to price land. To do so, recent literature on the topic was combined with classical and well-known papers. All the factors considered in these papers to explain farmland prices and/or to model them were retrieved, presented, and compared. Then, the main models proposed in the literature are presented and their suitability and goals are explained. This study can help academics as it gives an overview of the current state of the art, summarizes the main factors proposed by researchers to explain farmland prices, and sheds light on new lines of research. Besides that, it is also relevant for policymakers because farmland valuation and its use have implications on society and on urban planning, which is a hot topic under discussion. Full article

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Evolution Mode, Influencing Factors, and Socioeconomic Value of Urban Industrial Land Management in China

by Fei Xie, Shuaibing Zhang, Kaixu Zhao and Fengmei Quan

Land 2022, 11(9), 1580; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11091580 - 15 Sep 2022

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(1) Background: Accurate measurement of the matching relationship between urban industrial land change and economic growth is of great value for industrialized and re-industrialized countries to perform land resource management in territorial spatial planning. (2) Methods: Based on the combination of the Boston [...] Read more.

(1) Background: Accurate measurement of the matching relationship between urban industrial land change and economic growth is of great value for industrialized and re-industrialized countries to perform land resource management in territorial spatial planning. (2) Methods: Based on the combination of the Boston Consulting Group matrix, Geodetector, and decoupling model, we constructed a new method integrating “model evolution + driving mechanism + performance evaluation + policy design” in this paper, and conducted an empirical study on the economic value of urban industrial land management in the Yangtze River Delta. (3) Results: The evolution modes of urban industrial land in the Yangtze River Delta are divided into four types: stars, cows, dogs, and question, distributed in structures ranging from an “olive” shape to a “pyramid” shape, with high spatial heterogeneity and agglomeration and low autocorrelation. The government demand led by driving economic growth and making large cities bigger is the key factor driving the change in urban industrial land and the influence of transportation infrastructure and the business environment has remained stable for a long time. The mechanisms of industrialization, globalization, and innovation are becoming increasingly complicated. Industrial land change and value-added growth in most cities have long been in a state of strong and weak decoupling, with progressive decoupling occurring alongside the unchanged stage and regressive decoupling. The government outperforms the market in terms of urban industrial land management, and the degradation of the synergy between urban industrial land and corporate assets emerges as a new threat to sustainable and high-quality development of the region. (4) Conclusions: This paper establishes a technical framework for zoning management and classification governance of urban industrial land to divide the Yangtze River Delta into reduction-oriented transformation policy zoning, incremental high-quality development zoning, incremental synchronous growth zoning, and reduction and upgrading development zoning. It also proposes an adaptive land supply governance strategy for quantitative and qualitative control, providing a basis for territorial spatial planning and land resource management. Full article

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