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The Governance of Land Use

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2022) | Viewed by 40935

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Tamara Antonia Krawchenko

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School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
Interests: political economy and economic geography; comparative public policy; land use planning and strategic spatial planning; community and economic development; territorial policies (regional, rural, urban); transportation and infrastructure policy
Prof. Dr. John Tomaney

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Urban and Regional Planning, The Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London WC1H 0QB, UK
Interests: governance of local and regional economies and spatial planning; deep place shaping of territory in Catalonia, Scotland, and Flanders; devolution, spatial planning and territorial politics in contested European states; the turn to viability-based planning in the UK

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

How land is used is connected to some of the most important policy issues of our time: sustainable development, reducing territorial inequalities, economic development, and the rights of future generations, to name but a few. Given this, there is an urgency to ensure land is managed efficiently, equitably, and responsively. There is growing recognition that a wide range of policies shape how land is used and managed beyond that of land use and environmental planning. From fiscal and tax incentives to industry subsidies and infrastructure or transportation program design—a myriad of incentives and disincentives shape choices that play out across our land, often leading to perverse outcomes, such as a loss of agricultural land, high housing prices or costlier services. This call for papers urges authors to adopt a broad view on the governance of land use—to consider the range of policies across scales that shape how land is used and managed. We seek research contributions that demonstrate the incentives and disincentives that these policies and practices create and that propose stronger alignment to meet land management goals. Grounded in comparative public policy, an express aim of this collection is to elicit differences/similarities in national experiences.

Dr. Tamara Antonia Krawchenko
Prof. Dr. John Tomaney
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • land governance
  • local government
  • multilevel governance
  • public policy
  • land use planning
  • fiscal policy
  • tax policy

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The Governance of Land Use: A Conceptual Framework
by Tamara Krawchenko and John Tomaney
Land 2023, 12(3), 608; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030608 - 03 Mar 2023
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 3787
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How land is used is connected to some of the most important issues of our time: sustainable development, economic development, reducing territorial inequalities and the rights of future generations, to name but a few. There is growing recognition that a wide range of [...] Read more.
How land is used is connected to some of the most important issues of our time: sustainable development, economic development, reducing territorial inequalities and the rights of future generations, to name but a few. There is growing recognition that a wide range of policies shape how land is used and managed beyond that of land use and environmental planning systems. From fiscal and tax incentives to industry subsidies and infrastructure or transportation program design, a myriad of incentives and disincentives shape the decisions and interventions that play out across our land, often leading to adverse outcomes, such as a loss of agricultural land, environmental degradation, high housing prices or costlier services. This paper shares a conceptual framework for the governance of land use encompassing a range of policies and other factors across scales that shape how land is used and managed. This framework encourages consideration of the incentives, disincentives and complementarities across a range of policies and practices and the need for stronger alignment to meet land management goals. Full article
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Regional Planning, Land-Use Management, and Governance in German Metropolitan Regions—The Case of Rhine–Neckar Metropolitan Region
by Simin Yan and Anna Growe
Land 2022, 11(11), 2088; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11112088 - 19 Nov 2022
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German cities and their hinterlands have a long tradition of cooperation; however, there remains considerable challenges when developing integrated governance models, especially in those metropolitan regions that cross state-boundaries. The Rhine–Neckar Metropolitan Region (MRN), with its unique location of a tri-state intersection, explored [...] Read more.
German cities and their hinterlands have a long tradition of cooperation; however, there remains considerable challenges when developing integrated governance models, especially in those metropolitan regions that cross state-boundaries. The Rhine–Neckar Metropolitan Region (MRN), with its unique location of a tri-state intersection, explored ways out of the governing dilemma and has pioneered cooperative federalism in Germany. To determine how the cross-jurisdictional cooperation is organized and realized in the MRN, and how well this model has worked in terms of regional planning, attributing land resources, and the reality of long-term governance, a series of interviews with involved officials and planners and MAXQDA software were employed to decode the transcribed text content. A second-hand qualitative database, including, but not limited to, meeting memos, protocols, and published works were added to examine our findings. The results indicated that diversified actors, a combined instrument, multiple collaborative contents, and the networked joint decision-making structure have strengthened the governance of the MRN. However, their public association-centered structure raised concerns in terms of inadequate participation of private agents and an excessive pursuit of regional balance as well. Ultimately, this paper discusses the inefficiency challenges facing the MRN and further reflects on the need for, and impacts of, high-level government participation in constituting a regional identity. Full article
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An Analytical Framework for Evaluating Farmland Market Regulation: Examining the German Land Transaction Law
by Luise Meissner, Lisa Kappenberg and Oliver Musshoff
Land 2022, 11(10), 1759; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101759 - 10 Oct 2022
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Farmland market regulation and related political interventions are prominent in the current discussion, in particular, because the market faces big price increases. This discussion is often shaped by subjective and emotional perceptions. Its complexity is increased by the considerable number of affected parties [...] Read more.
Farmland market regulation and related political interventions are prominent in the current discussion, in particular, because the market faces big price increases. This discussion is often shaped by subjective and emotional perceptions. Its complexity is increased by the considerable number of affected parties and opposing arguments. The parties involved may be focused on different aspects and have different requirements with regard to farmland market regulation instruments. The objective of this paper is to present an analytical framework for more efficient observation and evaluation of the ongoing discussion. The framework was developed using information about the relevant political interventions to structure the arguments and parties. It allows for a holistic evaluation of farmland market regulation. To provide an example of how farmland market regulation can be analyzed, the German land transaction law was broken down by process, parties, and arguments. Within the analytical framework, arguments are weighted individually. As a result, the various farmland market instruments can be discussed in a structured way. Additionally, the framework provides information about the utility of the respective instruments in defined cases from different perspectives. Full article
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A Framework for Comparative Assessment of Indigenous Land Governance
by Chris McDonald and Lorena Figueiredo
Land 2022, 11(6), 906; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060906 - 14 Jun 2022
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Indigenous peoples are increasingly important players in the management and use of land and natural landscapes, bound in spiritual and traditional practices that endure and pre-date colonisation. This also extends to the aspirations that Indigenous traditional owners may have to generate income from [...] Read more.
Indigenous peoples are increasingly important players in the management and use of land and natural landscapes, bound in spiritual and traditional practices that endure and pre-date colonisation. This also extends to the aspirations that Indigenous traditional owners may have to generate income from land and to sustain business and employment opportunities that enable reinvestment in local communities. The paper draws from a study undertaken while the authors were at the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that involved 13 countries. It presents a framework to compare Indigenous land governance, to activate economic development opportunities across different legal and institutional contexts. The three-part typology allows us to assess the level of autonomy granted to Indigenous groups by law and identify key governance and regulatory instruments that they can employ to protect their cultural practices and activate commercial potential from land and waters. Varying autonomy levels can co-exist within a same country, since Indigenous groups may have different rights, aspirations, and capabilities. The typology allows us to conduct comparative analyses around progress and learnings that can support the self-determination of Indigenous peoples and promote regional well-being. Full article
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Governing the Metropolis: An International Review of Metropolitanisation, Metropolitan Governance and the Relationship with Sustainable Land Management
by Niamh Moore-Cherry, Carla Maria Kayanan, John Tomaney and Andy Pike
Land 2022, 11(5), 761; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050761 - 23 May 2022
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Recent research has identified the potential of the metropolitan scale, and indeed metropolitan bodies, in achieving greater coordination and more effective land-use management. In this paper, we have undertaken a systematic scoping review of the English-language literature (2014–2019) on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance, [...] Read more.
Recent research has identified the potential of the metropolitan scale, and indeed metropolitan bodies, in achieving greater coordination and more effective land-use management. In this paper, we have undertaken a systematic scoping review of the English-language literature (2014–2019) on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance, with a view to understanding the potential relationship with more sustainable land management. Our scoping review identified several dominant trends within current research on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance illustrating the complexity between sustainable land management and issues of territorial politics, resourcing, and power relations. The centrality of collaborative working relationships in supporting sustainable land management is identified, yet collaboration and effective metropolitan scale governance is not always an easy task or readily implemented. The paper identifies a series of challenges and concludes that while there is general consensus that the metropolitan arena may be an appropriate scale through which to support more sustainable land management, there is no agreement on the mechanisms to enable this. Steering and more strongly directing metropolitanisation processes through either formal metropolitan governance structures or other tools could provide a potential approach but will require significant adaptation in power and funding structures. Full article
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Investment Promotion, Tax Competition, and Industrial Land Price in China—Evidence from the Corporate Tax Collection Reform
by Huasheng Song and Guili Sun
Land 2022, 11(5), 682; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050682 - 04 May 2022
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Fiscal arrangements have significant influences on the use of land in China. The tax collection reform in 2002 stipulates that firms establish after the reform are levied by the state tax bureau while those established before the reform continue to be levied by [...] Read more.
Fiscal arrangements have significant influences on the use of land in China. The tax collection reform in 2002 stipulates that firms establish after the reform are levied by the state tax bureau while those established before the reform continue to be levied by local tax bureaus. The reform divided similar firms into two groups by the date of establishment and created a discontinuity in the tax enforcement for those firms established around the date of the reform. Based on the land transaction data on a parcel basis, we used the regression discontinuity design to study the impact of reform on industrial land prices. We found that the reform has resulted in significant discontinuities in land prices. The firms levied by the state tax authority receive lower land prices relative to the same type of firms that are levied by local tax authorities. The intuition is that tax collection reform has brought an exogenous constraint on local governments’ ability to engage in tax competition. As a countermeasure, local governments use low-cost land as another way to attract investment. Full article
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Land Is Life: Indigenous Relationships to Territory and Navigating Settler Colonial Property Regimes in Canada
by Clifford Atleo and Jonathan Boron
Land 2022, 11(5), 609; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050609 - 21 Apr 2022
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Respectful and reciprocal relationships with land are at the heart of many Indigenous cultures and societies. Land is also at the core of settler colonialism. Indigenous peoples have not only been dispossessed of land for settler occupation and resource extraction, but the transformation [...] Read more.
Respectful and reciprocal relationships with land are at the heart of many Indigenous cultures and societies. Land is also at the core of settler colonialism. Indigenous peoples have not only been dispossessed of land for settler occupation and resource extraction, but the transformation of land into property has created myriad challenges to ongoing struggles of land repatriation and renewal. We introduce several perspectives on land rooted in diverse Indigenous worldviews and contrast them with settler colonial perspectives rooted in Eurocentric worldviews. We then examine several examples in Canada where Indigenous nations attempt to reconnect with their homelands, protect them, and/or engage with them for economic development. We look at land relationships rooted in historical treaties, contemporary comprehensive claims/self-government agreements, the Indian Act, and the defence of unceded territories. The Indigenous communities we look at include the Six Nations of the Grand River, the Nisga’a Lisims Government, the Westbank First Nation, and the Wet’suwet’en. We contend that a complex configuration of settler colonial institutions challenges long-term efforts for Indigenous land reclamation, protection, and sustainable development, however, Indigenous nations remain steadfast in asserting their self-determination in diverse relational ways inside and outside of settler state systems. Full article
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Public Interest in Spatial Planning Systems in Poland and Portugal
by Waldemar A. Gorzym-Wilkowski and Karolina Trykacz
Land 2022, 11(1), 73; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11010073 - 04 Jan 2022
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As the level of development increases, spatial planning is becoming more significant among public management tools. Although the issue of spatial planning and its mechanisms has been repeatedly investigated in the literature, the issue of clashing of interests of different actors remains to [...] Read more.
As the level of development increases, spatial planning is becoming more significant among public management tools. Although the issue of spatial planning and its mechanisms has been repeatedly investigated in the literature, the issue of clashing of interests of different actors remains to be examined. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the enforcement mechanisms of the public interest in the spatial planning systems of Poland and Portugal. The analysis was based on a comparative analysis of the legal basis of the spatial planning systems of the countries. The research confirmed the hypothesis that even with some sociocultural and economic similarities, different countries do not have to create similar mechanisms for the realisation of the public interest in spatial planning processes. The specific solutions adopted in Poland and Portugal differ so much that the enforcement of the public interest proceeds with very few similarities. The integrated Portuguese planning system, with its hierarchical elements, facilitates the achievement of the objectives of public entities. On the other hand, the Polish system, with the dominant position of the municipality, pushes great possibilities of influencing the planning by land administrators, and the poor location of spatial planning in all public tasks makes it difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to achieve public goals in space. Full article
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The Impact of China Carbon Emission Trading System on Land Use Transition: A Macroscopic Economic Perspective
by Yingkai Tang, Yunfan Yang and He Xu
Land 2022, 11(1), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11010041 - 28 Dec 2021
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The carbon emission trading system (CETS) is a milestone policy in the history of China’s emission trading system, which is of great significance to China’s realization of “carbon peak and carbon neutralization”. As an important component of sustainable development, LUT should be related [...] Read more.
The carbon emission trading system (CETS) is a milestone policy in the history of China’s emission trading system, which is of great significance to China’s realization of “carbon peak and carbon neutralization”. As an important component of sustainable development, LUT should be related to the CETS. However, in the literature on the CETS, little material deals with its impact on land use transition (LUT). This paper will enrich this literature. Based on 30 provincial regions in China from 2011 to 2017, using the DID and entropy methods, this study investigated the impact of CETS on the trend of LUT from three perspectives: economic effects, environmental effects and Porter effects. The conclusions are that (1) the implementation of the CETS hindered economic development, but optimized energy-use efficiency; (2) the implementation of the CETS reduced the emissions of CO2 and SO2; (3) the implementation of the CETS did not produce a Porter effect; and (4) the influence of the CETS had the characteristics of a spatial cluster. These findings offer some guidance for improving CETS policies and formulating similar environmental regulation policies. Full article
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Government Competition, Land Supply Structure and Semi-Urbanization in China
by Jiale Zhou, Xiaofen Yu, Xizan Jin and Nuannuan Mao
Land 2021, 10(12), 1371; https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121371 - 11 Dec 2021
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Population urbanization is crucial to establishing a harmonious society. However, the phenomenon of population semi-urbanization is becoming an issue of ever-increasing concern in China. More and more immigrants from rural areas work and live in the city, but their roots remain in the [...] Read more.
Population urbanization is crucial to establishing a harmonious society. However, the phenomenon of population semi-urbanization is becoming an issue of ever-increasing concern in China. More and more immigrants from rural areas work and live in the city, but their roots remain in the rural area. This paper aims to analyze the influence mechanism of government competition on population semi-urbanization through land supply structure. The study’s theoretical analysis and empirical analysis results are based on the panel data of 105 key prefecture-level cities in China from 2007 to 2017. The results demonstrate that: (1) land finance and land-motivated investment engendered by government competition lead to an imbalance in the land price structure, further increasing the rate of population semi-urbanization; (2) land finance does not lead to population semi-urbanization through the land area structure; and (3) land-motivated investment aggravates the imbalance in the land area structure, further leading to population semi-urbanization. It is found that government competition in terms of achieving performance indicators affects population semi-urbanization by adjusting the land supply structure. Efforts should be made to achieve the coordinated development of urbanization, given that the increasing rate of population semi-urbanization will almost certainly aggravate social instability. Full article
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Unraveling Risk Networks of Cultivated Land Protection: An Exploratory Stakeholder-Oriented Case Study in Xiliuhe Town, Hubei Province, China
by Zhaoxia Guo, Qinqin Guo, Yujie Cai and Ge Wang
Land 2021, 10(11), 1222; https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111222 - 10 Nov 2021
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The protection of cultivated land plays an important role in ensuring food security, maintaining social stability, and promoting economic development. The protection of cultivated land involves a range of stakeholders (e.g., governments at different levels, farmers, and land-use organizations) and entails intertwined risk [...] Read more.
The protection of cultivated land plays an important role in ensuring food security, maintaining social stability, and promoting economic development. The protection of cultivated land involves a range of stakeholders (e.g., governments at different levels, farmers, and land-use organizations) and entails intertwined risk factors (e.g., to economic, environmental, social, and political factors). Therefore, it is crucial to identify and assess key stakeholders and associated risks to better align land protection policies. However, previous studies of risk are fragmented, and there has been little research targeting the complex interactions among risk factors in the protection of cultivated land. Taking Xiliuhe Town as an example, this study analyzes complex and intertwined risk factors from a network perspective in an in-depth case study in a major grain-producing area. The results show that: (1) the risk-factor network of cultivated land protection is relatively sparse, with a total of 142 nodes and 253 links; (2) local governments and land flow-out farmers are the core stakeholders, with strong power and connectivity in the network; (3) taking into account key stakeholders and associated risk factors, a framework for mitigating risks is developed, and a network simulation is performed. Using the simulation results, the effectiveness of the risk-mitigation strategies is assessed and validated. These results shed new light on cultivated land protection and sustainable agricultural development in emerging countries. Full article
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