Land‐Use Allocation in the Absence of Complete Market Values

Abstract

This paper describes a method of land-allocation that can be used by planners and other land managers in the face of market failure. The method integrates the land-allocation approach used in geographic information systems with that used in a generalized assignment problem. Suitability scores, instead of market prices, are used in assigning competing land uses to individual parcels (pixels) of land. The method is illustrated using a hypothetical example involving three competing land uses within a region.

Impact of the Household Registration System on Farmers’ Rural Housing Land Use Decisions in China

“…However, the land use rights cannot be legally purchased or sold on the open market [12]. As we know, free circulation is necessary for the optimal allocation of land resources [13,14]. From this perspective, the establishment of the circulation mechanism of rural housing land is thus beneficial for farmers, because income can be acquired from the property itself, which can then be used to revitalize idle assets, thereby providing the money required for settlement in urban areas.…”

Using Linear Integer Programming for Multi‐Site Land‐Use Allocation

“…We then can formulate the following basic optimization model (for recent papers see, e.g., Hanink andCromley 1998, Cova 1999):…”

Determination of Optimum Environmental Conservation: Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques

“…The framework proposed by Hanink and Cromley (1998) is indeed a very promising one among these tools for land-use planners and decision-makers. In their study, Hanink and Cromley developed a technique to achieve an optimum allocation of competing land uses in the absence of complete market values by integrating the multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) tools and a binary integer programming.…”

“…The analytical tools required to quantify the above-stated issues are very limited, and these issues have always been very argumentative in the urban landuse planning profession. The intention of this paper is to show empirical performance and usage of the Hanink and Cromley (1998) formulation on certain planning issues with a case study adding practical dimension to a hypothetical study. In this way, we expect that we could provide a deeper understanding for analysing certain intangibilities in urban land-use planning.…”

“…The model used in this empirical research is a MODA (single objective problem) technique formulating the land allocation as a binary linear programming (Hanink & Cromley, 1998). Since explicit market prices are not directly observable for social utilities or environmental assets, suitability indexes are used as proxies for the market prices of such assets in the program.…”