This paper addresses the issue of sustainable land use from two perspectives. First, a substantive and methodological discussion of sustainable development and related environmental security in the context of land use planning is offered. Second, an empirical case study on various land use options of the Po Delta area in Italy is dealt with, in which conflict resolution is analyzed by means of the use of multicriteria analysis (in particular, the regime method).
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2014Italy, United States of America
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2014Australia, Belgium, Canada, India, British Indian Ocean Territory, United States of America
The paper highlights that land degradation in India has been approaching a crisis level in spite of repeated emphasis on wasteland development and existence of apex level organisations for that purpose. One reason has been the policy emphasis on ownership and control rather than appropriate management of the land. It is set in the context of i) the 1988 Forest Policy, and ii) the recent amends to the Forest Conservation Act.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2014United Kingdom, Norway, United States of America
Land conflicts in 2013 continued to occupy an important position in the socio-economic and political agenda in the North Caucasus. North Caucasus, Dagestan Republic
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2014Nicaragua, Norway
Does the distribution of land rights affect the choice of contractible techniques? I present evidence suggesting that Nicaraguan farmers are more likely to grow effort-intensive crops on owned rather than on rented plots. I consider two theoretical arguments that illustrate why property rights might matter. In the first the farmer is subject to limited liability; in the second the owner cannot commit to output-contingent contracts. In both cases choices might be inefficient regardless of land distribution. The efficiency loss, however, is lower when the farmer owns the land.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2015China, Russia, United States of America
China’s traditional urban land system is established in highly centralized planned economy. This system negates functions of value law and economic law fundamentally, so it is not favorable for establishment of market mechanism and development of market economy. This study took Marx’s ground rent theory as guidance, combined existing problems of China’s land use system, and made analysis on innovation of China’s urban land system from property right system, land market and land price.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2014Australia, Belgium, Canada, United States of America
Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management, Health Economics and Policy, Industrial Organization, International Relations/Trade, Land Economics/Use,
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2014Australia, China, Russia, United States of America
China, a country developing at unprecedented levels, has experienced drastic changes throughout its recent economic history. Of primary interest is the continuing development and improvement of the rural agricultural sector, with even the slightest changes in this sector having dramatic ripple effects on rural economies. Estimates of rural households involved in agricultural production range from 65 to 70 percent (de Brauw & Rozelle, 2008; Rozelle, Taylor, & de Brauw, 1999).
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2014Nicaragua, Norway
The distribution of property rights has a strong impact on output when, due to the non-contractibility of some inputs, market contracts do not yield efficient outcomes. In this Paper I analyse how the distribution of land rights affects the choice of both contractible techniques – such as crop mix or irrigation – and non-contractible effort when these are complements in production. I present evidence from rural Nicaragua suggesting that farmers are more likely to grow effort-intensive/highly profitable crops on the plots they own rather than on the plots they rent.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2014Benin, Canada, Ethiopia, United Kingdom, United States of America
Food-for-work (FFW) programs are commonly used both for short-term relief and long-term development purposes. In the latter capacity, they are increasingly used for natural resources management projects. Barrett, Holden and Clay (forthcoming) assess the suitability of FFW programs as insurance to cushion the poor against short-term, adverse shocks that could, in the absence of a safety net, have permanent repercussions.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2014Poland, United States of America
The macroeconomic conditions. The current conditions for the agricultural land trading in Poland. The principles for management of agricultural land owned by the State Treasury. The agricultural land buy/sell transactions. The prices of agricultural land. The lease of agricultural land. The sale of agricultural land for the benefit of foreigners. The problems of the agricultural land market in the European countries. agricultural land, land trading, Poland, buy transactions, sell transactions, prices, lease, European countries, Land Economics/Use,
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