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19 Citations
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10 January 2019

In economics, land has been traditionally assumed to be a fixed production factor, both in terms of quantity supplied and mobility, as opposed to capital and labor, which are usually considered to be mobile factors, at least to some extent. Yet, in t...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,343 Views
21 Pages

4 May 2024

Since 2023, a new format of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been implemented in Europe. Market forces alone cannot guarantee land services, which can be described as flows of goods and services from ecosystems to human systems as functions o...

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9 Citations
3,436 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2021

Planning support systems (PSSs) should generally be designed to promote the participation of stakeholders in planning and design processes through the delivery of useful, localized information, an ability to collect feedback, and an ability to model...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,092 Views
15 Pages

How Do Urban Land Expansion, Land Finance, and Economic Growth Interact?

  • Ke Zhao,
  • Danling Chen,
  • Xupeng Zhang and
  • Xiaojie Zhang

Land finance has consumed a lot of China’s urban land resources while contributing to its economic growth. Urban land expansion, land finance, and economic growth have attracted significant scholarly and social attention. However, the influence...

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8 Citations
4,175 Views
19 Pages

Limits of Land Capitalization and Its Economic Effects: Evidence from China

  • Jian Cheng,
  • Jiangmeng Zhao,
  • Daolin Zhu and
  • Hui Zhang

6 December 2021

Academic debates over the advantages and disadvantages of land capitalization are ongoing in China, but the fundamental issues behind the debate have not been adequately explored. We suggest that the core issue in land capitalization is the degree of...

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  • Open Access
69 Citations
5,929 Views
22 Pages

29 November 2020

In recent years, it has become common practice for Chinese local governments to inject land assets into financing platform companies and use them as mortgage or credit guarantees to obtain bank loans and issue urban investment bonds, which is known a...

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38 Citations
4,128 Views
15 Pages

6 November 2018

Since the reform and opening up, China’s economy has maintained rapid growth. At the same time, the process of urbanization in China has been accelerating and the scale of urban construction land has expanded accordingly. The purpose of the res...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,048 Views
20 Pages

Land Inequality and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis

  • Maria Cipollina,
  • Nadia Cuffaro and
  • Giovanna D’Agostino

6 December 2018

Increasing commercial pressure on land may lead to land concentration in developing countries, especially in the context of complex systems of property rights. In this article we review through meta-analysis (MA) the econometric findings of the liter...

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29 Citations
3,508 Views
13 Pages

27 February 2022

Guiding qualified farmers to transfer their land is an important way to alleviate the problem of land abandonment, improve land use efficiency, and achieve moderately large-scale land management. Based on the dual perspectives of economic endowment a...

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134 Citations
49,137 Views
19 Pages

Agricultural Land Conversion, Land Economic Value, and Sustainable Agriculture: A Case Study in East Java, Indonesia

  • Mohammad Rondhi,
  • Pravitasari Anjar Pratiwi,
  • Vivi Trisna Handini,
  • Aryo Fajar Sunartomo and
  • Subhan Arif Budiman

30 November 2018

Agricultural land conversion (ALC) is an incentive-driven process. In this paper, we further investigate the inter-relationship between land economic value (LEV) and ALC. To achieve this goal, we calculated the LEV for agricultural and non-agricultur...

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33 Citations
13,612 Views
15 Pages

15 June 2019

Land plays an important role in the economies of developing countries, and many theories connecting land inequality with different dimensions of economic development already exist. Even though efficacious land distribution allows societies to transit...

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28 Citations
3,882 Views
16 Pages

How Land Finance Affects Green Economic Growth in Chinese Cities

  • Shiying Hou,
  • Liangrong Song,
  • Jiaqi Wang and
  • Shujahat Ali

4 August 2021

Land finance is an important means for local governments to develop a regional economy. Studying the impact of land finance on green economic growth has important practical significance for achieving high-quality economic growth in China. This articl...

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22 Citations
12,773 Views
14 Pages

18 October 2017

In deciding what crops to grow, farmers will look at, among other things, the economically most productive use of the water and land resources that they have access to. However, optimizing water and land use at the farm level may result in total wate...

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5 Citations
2,526 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2023

Seeking land use development strategies is an effective policy tool to support economic development, especially in developing countries. Previous studies evidence the indispensable role of urban construction land use (UCLU) in regional economic devel...

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3 Citations
1,822 Views
24 Pages

20 December 2024

Economic corridors play a crucial role in promoting economic growth and facilitating coordinated regional development. However, land use changes associated with the development of emerging economic corridors have become a prominent source of conflict...

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16 Citations
7,235 Views
19 Pages

26 September 2021

Special economic zones (SEZs) are important in Laos due to their ability to attract foreign investment, realize industrialization, and promote economic globalization. Based on Laos’ SEZs in operation, this study explored land-use intensity, structura...

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7 Citations
4,682 Views
25 Pages

The Mechanisms of the Transportation Land Transfer Impact on Economic Growth: Evidence from China

  • Mingzhi Zhang,
  • Zhaocheng Li,
  • Xinpei Wang,
  • Jiajia Li,
  • Hongyu Liu and
  • Ying Zhang

24 December 2021

Accessibility to transportation is a crucial factor for economic growth. Transportation land, defined as the land used to support transportation infrastructure, such as city and inter-city rail, ports, and air travel, is a critical element for constr...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,574 Views
25 Pages

Rapid urbanization raises the issue of protecting development interests in net-incremental reduction regions of construction land (NRRCL). Spatial injustice (SI) is one of the key factors for the smooth implementation of construction land reduction (...

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9 Citations
4,217 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2022

With economic growth, people’s living standards improve, and more cultivated land is needed to meet food demand. Meanwhile, the economic growth and urban expansion in China since 1978 has led to the loss of considerable amounts of cultivated la...

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38 Citations
11,415 Views
20 Pages

30 May 2021

The Thai government’s project called “Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)” was announced in 2016 to stimulate economic development and help the country escape from the middle-income trap. The project provides investment incentives for the private sector...

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27 January 2026

Drawing on evidence from China’s land market, this study systematically investigates the impact of land misallocation on economic resilience and reveals the underlying mechanism that operates by suppressing technological advancement. A theoreti...

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7 Citations
2,609 Views
17 Pages

Understanding Relationships between Cultivated Land Pressure and Economic Development Level across Spatiotemporal Characteristics: Implications for Supporting Land-Use Management Decisions

  • Dan Yang,
  • Zhenyue Liu,
  • Pengyan Zhang,
  • Zhuo Chen,
  • Yinghui Chang,
  • Qianxu Wang,
  • Xinyue Zhang,
  • Rong Lu,
  • Mengfan Li and
  • Guanghui Li
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Food security is crucial to world peace. Economic development has posed a great threat to the protection of cultivated land. Considering 20 cities in the lower Yellow River (AALYR) as the study area, this study explored the spatial evolution of culti...

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90 Citations
19,167 Views
21 Pages

28 March 2017

Land is one of the important input resources in a highly populous and land-scarce country such as Bangladesh. When different factors change (such as, geophysical, proximity, socioeconomic and climatic), there are dramatic changes in the spatial patte...

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3 Citations
2,103 Views
26 Pages

23 February 2024

The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of tourism economic links and networks within the tourism sector of China’s land border cities. It seeks to reveal the spatial and temporal evolution of tourism economic links in order...

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6 Citations
3,203 Views
23 Pages

12 October 2024

The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as an important part of the Belt and Road Initiative, is of great significance for the promotion of sustainable development in the region through the study of land use change and the simulation of fu...

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24 Citations
4,904 Views
19 Pages

10 August 2018

Regional industrial structure and land use patterns differ between the different stages of development, and the impact of land input on economic growth may vary. On the basis of land supply data obtained from http://www.landchina.com/ for 2010–...

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18 Citations
8,321 Views
12 Pages

17 March 2016

Although substantial studies emphasized the close relationship among land development, public infrastructure, and urban economic growth, the mediating effect of public infrastructure remains unexplored. Using panel data of 253 prefecture-level Chines...

  • Feature Paper
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8 Citations
3,048 Views
20 Pages

Coevolution of Economic and Industrial Linkages within the Land-Sea Industrial Structure of China

  • Xue Jin,
  • Shiwei Zhou,
  • Ussif Rashid Sumaila,
  • Kedong Yin and
  • Xinman Lv

5 December 2021

The joint development of continental and marine economies has become an important driving force for the upgrading of industrial structures. However, because of the differences in resource endowment and development potential, developing industrial str...

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7 Citations
2,125 Views
18 Pages

16 March 2023

This study had three objectives: (1) to consolidate poverty alleviation achievements and connect them with the current rural vitalization strategy; (2) to inaugurate agricultural modernization development in rural areas of the Poyang Lake Ecological...

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8 Citations
7,968 Views
16 Pages

7 May 2012

Global climate change, especially the phenomena of global warming, is expected to increase the intensity of land-falling hurricanes. Societal adaptation is needed to reduce vulnerability from increasingly intense hurricanes. This study quantifies the...

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1 Citations
2,194 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...

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2,202 Views
19 Pages

28 December 2022

Many farmers lost their land and resettled in urban areas because of the rapid urban expansion of China. Although many studies have investigated the livelihood conditions of farmers after their resettlement, very little is known about their long-term...

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1 Citations
2,089 Views
26 Pages

16 August 2024

The Western Taiwan Strait (WTS) Economic Zone connects the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, playing a significant role in China’s coastal economy and forming part of the East Asian economic structure. This study used panel data fr...

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157 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...

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11 Citations
3,016 Views
25 Pages

Comprehensive Evaluation of Ecological-Economic Value of Guangxi Based on Land Consolidation

  • Lili Zhang,
  • Baoqing Hu,
  • Ze Zhang,
  • Gaodou Liang and
  • Simin Huang

28 March 2023

The “Two Mountains” concept of “green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains” plays an important value-oriented role in the ecological transformation of land consolidation. In this study, Guangxi was divided i...

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20 Citations
4,233 Views
20 Pages

27 March 2019

Rapid urban expansion may cause a decline in land-use efficiency and result in a series of social and ecological problems. Economic transition has significantly influenced urban land development, and provides a good perspective for analyzing changes...

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2 Citations
2,086 Views
18 Pages

22 March 2023

The transfer of urban land is an important means for the government to optimize the allocation of resources and promote economic development, and its impact on high-quality economic development (HQED) in the new era is worthy of attention. Based on t...

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4 Citations
2,332 Views
18 Pages

3 July 2023

Land contracting is an important system in China. As we know, farmers and agricultural organizations acquire land management rights from collective economic organizations to carry out agricultural production. Over the past few decades, it has proved...

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14 Citations
3,924 Views
23 Pages

12 August 2021

Economic development, environmental protection and land resources are important components in sustainable cities. According to the environmental Kuznets curve, developing countries are prone to environmental pollution problems while developing their...

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18 Citations
6,365 Views
12 Pages

9 January 2017

Since the inauguration of the government-led five year economic plans in the 1960s, Korea has achieved remarkable economic development. Korea’s economic strategy, known as ‘The Miracle on the Han River’, focused on heavy and chemical industries such...

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60 Citations
5,101 Views
24 Pages

5 January 2021

Regional land use transitions driven by the adaptive reconciliation of existing land use conflict with socioeconomic development can lead to positive economic effects as well as new land use conflict. Although research on land use transition has prog...

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11 Citations
3,590 Views
15 Pages

As the basic support of regional economic and social development, land transportation is one of the important engines to promote regional development, and its construction and improvement will have an important impact on the regional economic pattern...

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10 Citations
3,016 Views
14 Pages

23 April 2021

Land consolidation is an effective means of promoting the regularization of fragmented arable land, optimizing the allocation of land resources and improving the environment in farming areas, as well as an important means of increasing the economic r...

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2 Citations
1,692 Views
23 Pages

3 September 2024

This study examines the impact of China’s industrial land approval reform (ILAR) on the provision of subnational services. Utilizing the 2011 pilot reform policy approved by the State Council, we utilize a staggered Difference-in-Differences (D...

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15 Citations
2,328 Views
15 Pages

Land Use Change and Its Impact on Ecological Risk in the Huaihe River Eco-Economic Belt

  • Huaijun Wang,
  • Ru Feng,
  • Xinchuan Li,
  • Yaxue Yang and
  • Yingping Pan

18 June 2023

Exploring the landscape ecological security pattern and its driving mechanisms in key economic zones is of great significance for preventing and resolving landscape ecological risks and promoting regional sustainable development. This study quantitat...

  • Feature Paper
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1 Citations
771 Views
28 Pages

29 August 2025

Exploring the effects and mechanisms of spatial agglomeration of construction land resources on economic resilience across Chinese provinces will provide theoretical support for governments to optimize the allocation of productive forces and enhance...

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3 Citations
997 Views
22 Pages

28 February 2025

Given the increasing scarcity of natural resources and the global imperative for sustainable development, the relationship between land resource allocation and green economic efficiency remains crucial but underexplored. This study, utilizing land tr...

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2 Citations
2,279 Views
18 Pages

12 September 2022

Motivated by the observation that land supplied by the Chinese government is highly counter-cyclical with GDP fluctuations, this paper constructs a DSGE model to study the relationship between China’s land supply policy and economic fluctuation...

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15 Citations
3,210 Views
22 Pages

5 October 2022

The allocation of urban land from planned to market-oriented is an important part of China’s economic market-oriented reform, but its impact on high-quality economic development still lacks direct testing. Based on the data of prefecture-level...

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2 Citations
4,976 Views
21 Pages

11 April 2025

Desertification affects over 90% of Moroccan territory, leading to soil degradation that reduces agricultural productivity, diminishes biodiversity, and alters environmental functions. This study estimates the total economic cost of desertification i...

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