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  • Article
  • Open Access
853 Views
15 Pages

15 May 2025

Under China’s dual land ownership system, the use rights of urban land (state-owned) and rural land (collective-owned) are not equal. Understanding the roles of ownership type and government decision-making behaviors in the formation of land pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,036 Views
25 Pages

New residential construction in many countries with rapid urban growth is often interrelated with smaller housing units being built. Sweden is not an exception. It is of interest to investigate the driving forces behind this tendency. Our presumption...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,811 Views
34 Pages

Understanding the Effects of Market Volatility on Profitability Perceptions of Housing Market Developers

  • Shahab Valaei Sharif,
  • Dawn Cassandra Parker,
  • Paul Waddell and
  • Ted Tsiakopoulos

Drastic shifts in prices and housing market trends in recent years, representing shocks to the housing system, have led many residential developers to pause or cancel their projects. In the already heated housing markets of the Greater Toronto Area (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,284 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2023

The ongoing collectively owned commercialized construction land market (CCCLM), established in China in 2015, calls for a deeper understanding of the market’s performance so as to promote integrated urban-rural development. This study provides...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,589 Views
28 Pages

Study on Changes in Comprehensive Land Prices for Expropriation Zones Based on Land Use Changes

  • Xu Dong,
  • Xinming Dong,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Meichen Fu,
  • Guanzhi Deng,
  • Sijia Li,
  • Haoyang Kang and
  • Yuqing Xiong

23 November 2024

Comprehensive land prices for expropriation zones can effectively alleviate many conflicts in China’s land expropriation practices. This contributes to achieving sustainable development goals such as “SDG-10: Reduced Inequalities” a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,074 Views
21 Pages

25 November 2020

In 2000, to efficiently implement land-use policies, the Taiwanese government amended the Agricultural Development Act by easing restrictions on agricultural land purchases. As a result of increasing land development and investment needs, agricultura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,547 Views
20 Pages

Exploring the Impact of Industrial Land Price Distortion on Carbon Emission Intensity: Evidence from China

  • Bo-yang Gao,
  • Zhi-ji Huang,
  • Ting-ting Zhang,
  • Xiao-yu Sun and
  • Ming-yue Song

27 December 2022

In the context of tax sharing reform and land reform during the 1990s, local governments in China relied heavily on land finance. Local governments have fierce competition in attracting investment, omitting the development of green economy. Based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
910 Views
26 Pages

2 April 2025

Urbanization-driven land use and cover change intensifies the competition for limited land resources, exacerbating spatial conflicts and challenging sustainable development, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions. This study focuses on the deline...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Views
17 Pages

Land Prices and Determinants of Socio-Economic Development in Pleiku, Central Highlands, Vietnam

  • Tran Trong Phuong,
  • Tran Duc Vien,
  • Nguyen Duc Loc,
  • Phan Van Khue,
  • Nguyen Dinh Trung and
  • Wolfgang Scholz

21 January 2026

The rapid urbanization of Pleiku City, Vietnam, has led to a sharp increase in the demand for and prices of residential land, creating challenges for urban management and land valuation. This study aims to identify and quantify the key factors influe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,082 Views
16 Pages

Can Land Marketization Help Reduce Industrial Pollution?

  • Weidong Sun,
  • Zhigang Chen and
  • Danyang Wang

Industrial pollution control is a difficult problem in China’s current economic transformation, and the Chinese government has implemented many measures to deal with it. However, little research has focused on the relationship between land poli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,105 Views
28 Pages

23 October 2024

The land price reflects the supply and demand relationship in the land market and plays an important role in regulating land use. Improving land auction rules is of great significance for avoiding abnormal fluctuations in the land market and promotin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,295 Views
15 Pages

Rural Revitalization and Land Institution Reform: Achievement, Conflict and Potential Risk

  • Zhihan Xu,
  • Jianchun Xu,
  • Xiaofang Chai,
  • Ning Zhang,
  • Rong Ye and
  • Fei Xu

10 November 2022

Rural depression is a global issue in the process of worldwide urbanization. Compared with rural economic institution reform, rural land institution reform is more thorough in realizing rural revitalization. In this paper, polycentric governance theo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,135 Views
24 Pages

25 January 2022

An in-depth exploration of the inner mechanisms of the spatio-temporal evolution of land prices in multiple industries (residential, commercial service and industrial) is of great significance for improving the overall economic development efficiency...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,782 Views
17 Pages

27 April 2024

The policy objectives of affordable housing programs in China are two-fold: on the one hand, they are designed to assist low- and moderate-income families and reduce inequality; on the other hand, they are intended to lower commodity housing prices....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,120 Views
20 Pages

This paper explores the spatial-temporal heterogeneity of the impact of industrial land transfer on urban air quality using the air quality index (AQI) and primary land market transaction data of 284 cities from 2015 to 2019 in China. Based on a thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,688 Views
15 Pages

Land Plots Evaluation for Agriculture and Green Energy Projects: How to Overcome the Conflict Using Mathematics

  • Igor Ilin,
  • Mikhail Laskin,
  • Irina Logacheva,
  • Askar Sarygulov and
  • Andrea Tick

20 November 2022

Seventeen sustainable development goals were formulated to create a harmonious world order for the benefit of different nations and peoples. At the same time, economic practice provides a lot of examples of conflicts of an economic nature between ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,657 Views
21 Pages

1 December 2022

The Czech Republic uses a dual system of agricultural land prices, namely the formal/official price—for tax purposes—and the market price in the case of a standard sale or purchase of farmland. This paper focuses on the construction of an...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,042 Views
14 Pages

Territorial Extrapolation of Basic Data as a Solution of the Problem of Its Deficiency during Mass Appraisal

  • Jana Volkova,
  • Elena Bykowa,
  • Maria Hełdak,
  • Katarzyna Przybyła and
  • Sebastian Pawlak

17 July 2021

The article is devoted to the application of the territorial extrapolation of basic data method during a mass (cadastral) assessment of a territory that is characterized by an acute lack of market information. In the framework of the study, an acute...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,932 Views
22 Pages

The impact path of housing prices on the upgrading of the industrial structure is an important part of realizing the high-quality operation of the national economy in China. In order to discuss the mechanism of different influencing paths to upgradin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
921 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2025

Based on the data of the non-central districts in Shanghai, this paper investigates the determinants of the commercial land leases of district governments from the government–market perspective and how these determinants affect the price and ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,776 Views
20 Pages

16 August 2019

This paper empirically investigates whether the contribution of land-driven development to economic growth has declined along with the Kuznets curve hypothesis by using a nonlinear dynamic model. Over the past 40 years, Chinese local governments have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,086 Views
21 Pages

18 October 2021

The tense relationship between the supply and demand of land resources and the past spatial expansion of urban development in Beijing have brought many urban problems. Mixed land use is considered to be able to solve these urban problems as well as p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,529 Views
26 Pages

27 August 2024

Realizing the multifunctional value of farmland is essential for regulating the pricing of farmland transfers and stabilizing the rural land market. However, in China, the mismatch between supply and demand leads to improper resource allocation, weak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,947 Views
16 Pages

9 October 2022

Based on panel data for the inputs and outputs of the three major staple grains (rice, wheat and corn) in China from 2000 to 2020, we calculated the cost efficiency using the stochastic frontier cost function model and examined the effects of cost ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
957 Views
28 Pages

14 February 2025

To promote the role of land property rights operation (LPRO) in urbanization and socioeconomic development, an optimization mechanism framework for LPRO is constructed to analyze how different variables related to the transfer, utilization, and super...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,901 Views
15 Pages

22 May 2022

China’s rental housing market has just started to develop in recent years. It is relatively imperfect and lacks a clear reference for the pricing of rents, which is not fully transparent. A study on the rent formation mechanism of rental housin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,823 Views
16 Pages

The Extension and Improvement of the Forest Land Net Present Value Model and Its Application in the Asset Evaluation of Cunninghamia lanceolata Forest Land

  • Weiping Hua,
  • Tian Qiu,
  • Xin Pan,
  • Chengzhen Wu,
  • Chongyang Zhuang,
  • Shangping Chi,
  • Xidian Jiang and
  • Jianwei Wu

5 June 2023

In order to solve the problem in that the classical forest land expectation value method ignores the actual forest stock volume when assessing the income at the end of the current production cycle in the forest, and fill the research gap in this area...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,684 Views
22 Pages

23 April 2021

Background: The distribution of farmers’ increment income is the key to the transfer of land use rights. This research aims to detect the optimal payment mode for the distribution of land increment income obtained by farmers in land rights transfer....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,425 Views
27 Pages

Luxury Effect, Heritage Effect, and Land Use Hypotheses Revealing Land Cover Distribution in Hainan Island, China

  • Meihui Zhu,
  • Qian Li,
  • Jiali Yuan,
  • Joel B. Johnson,
  • Jianpeng Cui and
  • Huafeng Wang

21 August 2024

Land cover analysis is a key method used to understand past land use patterns and explore the driving forces and processes behind them. This study focuses on land cover in 18 counties and cities of Hainan Island, delving into the driving factors of l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
437 Views
28 Pages

2 December 2025

As the spatial carrier of urban development, construction land is a fundamental element for achieving high-quality urban development (HQUD). This study examines the impact of construction land supply on HQUD across 285 Chinese cities. A HQUD evaluati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,655 Views
16 Pages

Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Study of Urban Expansion Based on the Marginal Principle

  • Jumei Cheng,
  • Xiaoshun Li,
  • Yiwei Geng,
  • Zhengyan Wang,
  • Tiange Li and
  • Qiubo Fan

13 September 2023

Rapid urban expansion places unprecedented pressure on urban land management. Optimization of urban spatial layout has become a theoretical proposition and a practical problem associated with urban expansion. Thus, by using the social value measureme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,141 Views
16 Pages

4 November 2016

State-owned construction land is the dominant legal land source for construction in China and its supply influences urban expansion, house prices, and economic development, among other factors. Surprisingly, limited attention has been directly devote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,601 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2025

With rapid urbanization, improving school quality in compulsory education is critical for optimal educational resource allocation. This study integrates a random forest machine learning model, GIS spatial analysis, and a spatial econometric model to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,287 Views
14 Pages

Do Urban Rail Transit Facilities Affect Housing Prices? Evidence from China

  • Xu Zhang,
  • Xiaoxing Liu,
  • Jianqin Hang,
  • Dengbao Yao and
  • Guangping Shi

18 April 2016

Urban rail transit facilities play a critical role in citizen’s social activities (e.g., residence, work and education). Using panel data on housing prices and urban rail transit facilities for 35 Chinese cities for 2002 to 2013, this study construct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,507 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2023

The forest ecological bank (FEB) plays a vital role in the transformation of ecological assets into ecological capital. The purpose of this study is to clarify the role of Shunchang County’s FEB in promoting the realization of the value of fore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,756 Views
26 Pages

21 February 2025

Land, as the foundation of all productive activities, plays a crucial role in achieving high-quality development across regions. China’s current land allocation model, which focuses on land quota distribution, has several drawbacks and does not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
18,597 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2018

With increasingly high housing prices, the urban housing problem has changed from an economic issue to a livelihood issue in China. Taking 32 major cities in China as an example, this paper employed data from 2007 to 2016 to build a panel data model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
801 Views
22 Pages

11 November 2025

China’s rapid urbanization, characterized by extensive land allocations, operates within a framework of binding quotas imposed by upper-level governments, while local governments exercise broad discretion over the zoning of newly transacted lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
738 Views
36 Pages

10 September 2025

When considering an urban agglomeration as a unit, promoting the coupling and coordination of the land price gradient and industrial gradient is crucial for achieving regional integrated development. We selected the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,060 Views
11 Pages

24 March 2022

In China, rural construction land refers to the construction land of townships (town) and villages. The construction land of townships (town) and villages refers to the land used by township (town) and village collective economic organizations and ru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,609 Views
16 Pages

Recently, with the rapid increase of urban population and industrial agglomeration, the price of construction land has increased, and construction land has become increasingly scarce. Therefore, how to improve the construction land use quality (CLUQ)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,260 Views
13 Pages

Delays in the Road Construction Projects from Risk Management Perspective

  • Reza Mohajeri Borje Ghaleh,
  • Towhid Pourrostam,
  • Naser Mansour Sharifloo,
  • Javad Majrouhi Sardroud and
  • Ebrahim Safa

Delays in the execution stage of road construction projects are one of the significant challenges. The incapability of finishing projects according to schedule has attracted many researchers’ attention to this issue. This study has been formed to inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,233 Views
16 Pages

11 April 2019

Picking agriculture is a form of leisure agriculture based on the concept of traditional garden. Due to their unique layout and construction style, picking gardens have different attractive elements, including sightseeing, leisure, entertainment, cro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,711 Views
20 Pages

16 June 2024

Global economic growth has weakened under the guidance of equilibrium price theory, which focuses on price competition. Therefore, developing a price formation mechanism that aligns with sustainable economic development is imperative. Based on a scie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,851 Views
31 Pages

16 June 2025

As technological progress and population growth continue to drive rising energy demand, renewable energy has emerged as a key focus of the global energy transition due to its environmental sustainability. However, in suitability assessments and site...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,190 Views
20 Pages

29 May 2023

The land factor in China still has many distortions which are the key constraints to economic development. The government intervention in land prices is the root cause of distortions in land factor. So, how to achieve the optimization land utilize th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
533 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2025

Ecosystem services play a crucial role in sustaining human life, providing numerous benefits that are indispensable for our well-being. However, these vital functions are increasingly compromised by land use changes that have been instigated by human...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,578 Views
14 Pages

4 December 2017

Access to affordable housing has been a long-standing issue for households in most cities. This paper reports on a study of house rent prices in Port Moresby, factors influencing them, and affordability of the prices. Data was obtained from houses th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,042 Views
22 Pages

Socio-Economic Drivers and Sustainability Challenges of Urban Green Space Distribution in Jinan, China

  • Hai-Li Zhang,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Yichao Wang,
  • Fanxin Meng,
  • Rongguang Shi,
  • Hui Xue,
  • Mir Muhammad Nizamani and
  • Zongshan Zhao

30 June 2025

Urban green spaces (UGSs), including parks, forests, and community gardens, play a critical role in enhancing public health and well-being by providing essential ecosystem services such as improving air quality, reducing surface temperatures, and mit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,106 Views
16 Pages

31 December 2019

Chile faces a housing affordability crisis, given that most of the population is unable to secure a house. While housing prices between 2008 and 2019 increased by 63.96%, wages only increased by 21.85%. This article presented an analysis of the housi...

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