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...

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,...

Each downtown commercial district has a different degree of mixed land use. Some commercial areas are a huge cluster with monotonous retail use, while others consists of a wide variety of land uses including residential or office uses as well. Locational factors such as proximity to other...

In the wake of increased domestic and foreign entity rush for land in Africa, rural households remained the marginalized group in terms of access. Consequently, household’s farm investment decisions are affected. Arresting such situation calls for study of the factors driving households’...

With rapid urbanization, land use change has shown a close negative relationship with ecosystem services, especially in urban agglomerations. Thus, rational urban planning involving key ecosystem services (ESs) in highly urbanized areas has become urgent and crucial in urban ecology and urban...

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...

We study the impact of China's land use regulation on firm productivity. Our theoretical analysis shows that a restriction on the supply of industrial land will reduce the number of operating firms and harm their average productivity. We employ a natural experiment based on geography and find...

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...