We provide a full characterisation of the socially optimal allocation of urban land to households and firms in a long narrow city with centrally located amenities. Households support linear costs of commuting to their workplace, and linear costs of travelling to the centre to benefit from...

Soil loss by water erosion represents a key threat to land degradation worldwide. This study employs an integrated quantitative modelling approach to estimate the long-term global sustainability impacts of soil erosion. The global biophysical model estimates a mean increase of soil erosion rates...

Flooding has become more common due to global climate change, challenging urban resilience. However, there needs to be more research on hedge flood risk while conducting long-term series and refined land use development. To bridge this gap, we built a resilient land-use decision-making framework...

Human actions can alter the local and regional climate, particularly via land use. We assess the impact of the Great Plains Shelterbelt, a large-scale forestation program in the 1930s which planted 220 million trees across six US Midwestern states. The program led to a regional increase in...

The effects of different cultivated crops and their growth periods on some hydraulic and chemical properties of a sandy clay loam soil at the University of Port Harcourt, Teaching and Research Farm, in Choba, Rivers State, Nigeria was studied. The objective was to understand the changes in soil...

Water interactions with soil and vegetation are greatly altered in agricultural watersheds compared to natural landscapes, which impacts sources and fates of organic carbon (OC). While mineral soil horizons in natural ecosystems primarily act as filters for dissolved organic carbon (DOC) leached...

Identifying the individual and combined hydrological response of land use landscape pattern and climate changes is the key to effectively managing the ecohydrological balance of regions. However, the nonlinearity, effect size, and multiple causalities limit a causal investigation. Therefore,...

This study was undertaken to analyze the effect of land tenure system practices and farm fragmentation on technical efficiency of rice farmers under the Dadin-Kowa Irrigation Scheme (DKIS) and made use of cross-sectional data from a survey conducted on 284 rice farmers selected by multi-staged...

Photovoltaic or solar energy is globally promoted as a major source of renewable energy. Although previous studies have discussed the use of price incentives to regulate the use of solar panels, not much is known about the role of land zoning policies. The development of solar panels is...

Sustainable use of land resources is at the core of the bioeconomy, and it is of central importance for development in the coming decades. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals reflect this aspect of development both directly and indirectly. Important global trends, such as a growing...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlights the importance of reaching net-zero CO2 emissions globally by 2050. Unlocking the potential of natural climate solutions in the strive for net-zero emissions is increasingly gaining attention. A large potential may arise from the...

Baiyangdian wetland is called “Kidney in north China”, providing a wide range of ecosystem services that are important for human wellbeing. In the past few decades, the water scarcity and eco-environmental problems resulted from climate changes and human activities have become more and more...

This paper explains how history, economics, public policy, and culture have combined to make Tokyo a city full of microspaces and how those microspaces shape Tokyo’s land use possibilities. Today’s Tokyo is a “new” city, having been largely rebuilt from scratch after wartime devastation,...

This article examines the effects of droughts on the diversification of temporary crop areas in Northeast Brazil. Using a quantile regression model with fixed effects, our results show that the intensity of diversification in rainfed agriculture increases with climate variability, but decreases...

The influence of land tenure on agricultural investment has been widely discussed in developing countries, but the results of existing studies are mixed. A data set from the ancestral land of Leizhou Peninsula in China that differentiates land tenure arrangements in neighboring villages is used...

This paper investigates price differentials between organically and conventionally farmed arable land. Organic commodities offer higher prices and environmental benefits such as improved soil constitution, where land buyers gauge these benefits against lower yields at higher risk, switching and...

Die Schätzung der Angebotsreaktionen von Landwirten auf veränderte Rahmenbedingungen ist wichtig, um Entscheidungsträger über die erwarteten Auswirkungen einer Maßnahme auf das Produktionsvolumen und die daraus resultierenden Landnutzungsänderungen zu informieren. Bestehende Modelle für...

Following the 2007 and 2008 global food crisis, emphasis has been placed on large-scale acquisition and transfer of land for agricultural investment to foreign and domestic investors from the global south as a strategy to address food shortages. Worldwide promotion for large scale agricultural...

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...

This paper explores the extent of factor misallocation in Vietnam’s cropping sector and how it is related to land rental markets. I distinguish between market transactions (i.e. those that are entitled to some form of compensation) and non-market (i.e. those that are for free and/or among...

In order to solve the problem of deteriorating soil health and the stagnation of yield in the rice-wheat-green gram cropping system (RWGCS) in Madwan Block, Muzaffarpur Bihar, from 2018 until 2023. The experiment included five crop scenarios based on conservation agriculture principles (CA),...

In this study, the effects of two different forms of olive mill waste, one of the industrial agricultural wastes, on soil carbon content and some physical soil quality parameters were investigated. In this context, olive pomace and biochar which is obtained from olive mill waste were applied to...

Flue gas desulfurization steel slag (DS), a solid waste produced by coal power plants and steelworks, was proposed as a new amendment for the remediation of saline-sodic soil. A pot experiment including three dosages of DS (1%, 5%, 10% w/w) and whether it combined with fulvic acid (FA) was...

In agricultural areas such as developed on the European loess belt, soil erosion causes off-site damages and the decrease of crop grows. The elevated rate of soil erosion raises also the question of sustainability of agriculture in these areas. During runoff events, erosion causes the loss of...

Soil salinization can affect the ecological environment of soil and alter greenhouse gas emissions. Chitooligosaccharides and AMF reduced the greenhouse gas fluxes of salinized soil, and this reduction was attributed to an alteration in the rhizosphere microecology, including changes in the...

Measuring organic carbon (OC) losses from soils presents a challenge because of the intricate interplay of human-induced and biophysical processes that govern its transfer from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. This study employed a modeling approach to enhance our comprehension of human...

The gender gap in rural development has received attention from researchers and practitioners, and it is necessary for women empowerment to better understand how gender intersects with land tenure and farm investment. However, there is a lack of discourse on the relationship among women's...