Land Value Capture: Dynamics and Diversity of Instruments and Strategies

Land value capture refers to a range of methods utilised by public authorities to obtain a portion of the rise in land values from landowners. To enable both researchers and decision-makers to comprehensively assess the outcomes and effects of land value capture, evaluation frameworks are necessary. This special issue adopts four generic evaluation criteria as a framework for analysing the various land policy instruments: effectiveness, efficiency, justice and legitimacy. The opening editorial paper places this evaluation framework within the context of land value capture instruments and introduces the contribu-tions to this special issue. The issue intends to show how studying land value capture policies based on explicit evaluation criteria can help their strategic application in diverse institutional settings.