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Institutions in Governance of Land Use: Mitigating Boom and Bust (Second Edition)

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 (15 July 2026) | Viewed by 3271

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Prof. Dr. Piyush Tiwari

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Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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Dr. Jyoti Shukla

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Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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Dr. Godwin Kavaarpuo

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Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Land use governance is the process by which natural and built resources of land are put to good use. The paradigm for land use governance includes land policies, land administration functions, land regulation, and a land information system. The operational aspects of land governance ensure proper management of land rights, land tenure, land value, land use, and its planning and development. Land development is the strategic part of land administration that constitutes a series of steps that are taken to achieve long-term goals. This usually encompasses the assembly of land, financing of the investment in buying or leasing land, re-parcelling of that land to make it suitable for the proposed development, the provision of infrastructure and other public facilities, distribution of building plots to end users and/or investors, and the management and ownership of (part of) that land after the construction of the building(s). Within this context, this Special Issue seeks original papers that provide experiences from different parts of the world in the governance of land.

The following issues are specifically of interest:

  • Country studies comprising land management strategies that enable public and private stakeholders to act in the market in an efficient way.
  • Innovations in the assembly of land that address key legal debates associated with interference with individual property rights, for instance, expropriation, the protection of individual property rights, and compensation that must be paid for the compulsory acquisition of land.
  • Country studies on approaches to capture unearned increases in land values due to government interventions.
  • Country studies on instruments to (re)distribute land-based wealth in a fair way among landowners, land users, property developers and investors, and the public.
  • Empirical and theoretical studies on the value of land, both monetary and non-monetary.
  • Studies on the management of land rights of indigenous people across jurisdictions.
  • Disaster preparedness and resilience through urban planning and land management.

Prof. Dr. Piyush Tiwari
Dr. Jyoti Shukla
Dr. Godwin Kavaarpuo
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Keywords

  • land governance
  • land assembly
  • land value
  • land rights
  • land expropriation and compensation
  • disaster management

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Urban Land Rent and Residential Location Choices of Key Workers: Evidence from New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure
by Chuyi Xiong, Ka-Shing Cheung and Chung-Yim Yiu
Land 2026, 15(6), 1013; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15061013 - 9 Jun 2026
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Why are essential workers (also known as key workers) priced out of the urban areas where essential services are concentrated? This paper addresses that question by linking residential sorting to the governance of land and housing markets in Auckland, New Zealand. Drawing on [...] Read more.
Why are essential workers (also known as key workers) priced out of the urban areas where essential services are concentrated? This paper addresses that question by linking residential sorting to the governance of land and housing markets in Auckland, New Zealand. Drawing on bid rent theory and motivated by Crane’s theoretical framework, this study examines how households trade off urban accessibility against housing costs with varying degrees of job location uncertainties and time pressure. The analysis uses the micro-level household data from Statistics New Zealand (Stats NZ)’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to examine how key-worker households position themselves within the city’s rental market relative to other working households. The results show a clear urban land rent gradient: rents fall with distance from the city centre. However, access to the central location is not evenly distributed across workers. Key workers, whose jobs are typically tied to more fixed workplaces, are more inclined to live farther from the city centre to lower housing costs. By contrast, workers facing tighter time constraints, especially those working longer hours, show a stronger preference for living near the CBD to improve work proximity and reduce commuting burdens. This pattern remains evident among private vehicle commuters, suggesting that time pressure, rather than transport mode alone, is an important factor shaping residential location choice. The paper argues that this is not simply a housing market outcome but also a land-governance problem. When central land values rise without corresponding housing options for key workers, cities risk pushing socially necessary labour towards peripheral areas. The findings highlight the need for land-use and housing interventions that improve the spatial match between where key workers live and where urban services are most needed. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Institutions in Governance of Land Use: Mitigating Boom and Bust (Second Edition))
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Historical Scarcity Within Rural Land Systems: How Early-Life Famine Exposure Impacts Compensatory Food Consumption Among Rural Chinese Residents
by Xiaotong Li, Zhenpeng Liu and Li Zhou
Land 2026, 15(3), 491; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15030491 - 18 Mar 2026
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Understanding the long-term impact of historical land system failures on rural elderly dietary habits is essential for enhancing rural well-being. Existing studies focus on physiological effects but often neglect the deep-seated psychological mechanisms and resource boundaries driving irrational late-life consumption. By integrating the [...] Read more.
Understanding the long-term impact of historical land system failures on rural elderly dietary habits is essential for enhancing rural well-being. Existing studies focus on physiological effects but often neglect the deep-seated psychological mechanisms and resource boundaries driving irrational late-life consumption. By integrating the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model and compensatory consumption theory, this study uses balanced panel data from the CLHLS and a Cohort-Difference-in-Differences framework to identify causal effects. The results show that: (1) Early-life famine exposure creates a rigid life-cycle consumption imprint. Adolescent exposure leads to significantly higher levels of compensatory food consumption in later life despite current improvements in material conditions. (2) Learned helplessness drives historical trauma into compensation. Mechanism analysis shows that individuals attempt to restore a sense of order and security by controlling micro-level food intake. (3) The behavioral impact of this trauma depends on resource boundary conditions. The compensatory drive is stronger in resource-scarce regions but weakens with individual economic self-reliance. Additionally, professional community counseling shows a reversal effect, surpassing informal family support which suffers from a “compliance paradox”. These results are robust after a series of validation tests. Our study supports shifting rural revitalization policies from material aid to professional psychological intervention. Full article
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The Interrelationship Between Land Values, Woodland Planting, and Farm Characteristics
by Neil Dunse and Colin Jones
Land 2026, 15(2), 309; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15020309 - 12 Feb 2026
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There are well-documented environmental benefits of the impact of tree planting but limited research on the implications for agricultural land values. Although trees provide significant public and economic benefits, farmers’ perceptions of their value are crucial in determining their willingness to adopt tree [...] Read more.
There are well-documented environmental benefits of the impact of tree planting but limited research on the implications for agricultural land values. Although trees provide significant public and economic benefits, farmers’ perceptions of their value are crucial in determining their willingness to adopt tree planting initiatives. This paper focuses on the application of hedonic price modelling (HPM) to assess the impact of trees on agricultural land values, controlling for other factors including types of farms, soil quality, location, and local population density. The paper begins by reviewing existing agricultural HPM studies noting key factors affecting land prices, with a particular focus on trees. This review justifies the framework for our subsequent empirical HPM analysis of English farmland with three hypotheses to be tested. By examining the relationship between land prices and various agricultural attributes including location, farm infrastructure, land parcel size, soil quality, farm type, and existing woodland cover—this analysis quantifies how tree planting influences agricultural land valuation. The results suggest that the existence of woodland on a farm does not significantly influence land prices that are primarily influenced by other farm characteristics. However, larger woodland areas, above approximately 80 acres, show a modest positive impact on land values, implying a non-linear relationship. Policymakers aiming to promote afforestation must therefore recognize these value relationships between traditional agricultural land use and woodland expansion. Full article
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