Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Competing Land Uses and Endogenous Tenure Security written by Anteneh T. Tesfaw and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a compilation of three essays on the economics of land and forest use under endogenous tenure insecurity, incentive based strategies (e.g., payment for carbon sequestration and avoided deforestation), and intergenerational land transfer motive. The first essay explores, in a dynamic framework, how participation in carbon forestry financed by payment for environmental services (PES) schemes affects the land allocation decision of a smallholder with customary tenure between crop production and tree planting. Customary tenure arrangement presents an interesting feature to the model, because under this arrangement smallholder's risk of eviction is reduced through afforestation. Although there are studies linking the risk of eviction in agriculture and forestry to an agent's land allocation decision among alternative uses, this literature does not include the specific influence of customary tenure, nor does it covers the influence on carbon forestry projects. With this research gap in mind, we analyze the conditions under which a carbon forestry scheme can be targeted to smallholders with customary tenure, and how the incentives for undertaking carbon forestry are affected by any endogenous impact on tenure security through tree planting. The essay also explores how the potential endogeneity of tenure security is likely to influence carbon forestry payments. The existing empirical literature linking tenure security and forest management is largely inconclusive, implying that requiring absolute tenure security for REDD+ participation may sometimes be ill-advised. The second essay establishes this and shows that, under certain conditions, communities with insecure tenure can be successful providers of REDD+. To this end, this essay considers deforestation of a commonly owned forest in a dynamic game theory setting, allowing for tenure security endogeneity and payment for avoided deforestation. This framework helps identify conditions that yield forest conservation as Markov- perfect Nash equilibrium for endogenously insecure tenure. The third essay examines the implication of intergenerational land transfer motives on land conservation decision of rural parents. Farmers in general commit scarce resources on land conservation structures. One possible explanation is market incentive; that the improved productivity from soil conservation will be capitalized into land value or that a farmer invests in conservation structures only if it is profitable to do so. However, the market incentive explanation may be ill-suited to the realities particularly present in most farming economies, where land markets are either missing or imperfect. Alternatively, a strong intergenerational land transfer motive could explain a planning horizon for realizing the returns on soil conservation structure investments beyond the farmer's own life time. The latter explanation is the focus of this essay. Specifically, this essay identifies intergenerational land transfer motives and models how each impacts conservation decision of families in farming economies. In addition, recent studies from developing countries found that security of property right is important in explaining variations in smallholder's land conservation investment decision. Using our framework, we show that tenure security impacts land conservation investment decision of parents by weakening or strengthening this land transfer consideration. In this essay we also carry out empirical analysis of data from Ethiopia. Ethiopia presents an ideal case to test the theory as land degradation is alarming and inheritance is the only means of transferring land in perpetuity.
Download or read book Land Use Competition written by Jörg Niewöhner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food regimes and land-water competition. Competition over land ownership and use is one of the key contexts in which the effects of global change on social-ecological systems unfold. As such, understanding these rapidly changing dynamics is one of the most pressing challenges of global change research in the 21st century. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of the manifold interactions between land systems, the economics of resource production, distribution and use, as well as the logics of local livelihoods and cultural contexts. It addresses a broad readership in the geosciences, land and environmental sciences, offering them an essential reference guide to land use competition.
Download or read book The Economics of Land Use written by Ian W. Hardie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economics of Land Use brings together the most significant journal essays in key areas of contemporary agricultural, food and resource economics and land use policy. The editors provide a state-of-the-art overview of the topic and access to the economic literature that has shaped contemporary perspectives on land use analysis and policy.
Download or read book Land Tenure and Food Security written by Daniel G. Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Land Use Regulation written by Jiayin Lai and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three papers on land use economics and regulation. The first paper reviews numerous past literatures on how land-use regulation, agricultural subsidies, and use-value assessment method affect land values. The second paper uses a theoretical model to analyze how imposing minimum-lot-size zoning and different designs of minimum-lot-size zoning policies affects land value. The third papers use land data from Oregon to investigate the price effect of minimum-lot-size zoning and potential impact of Measure 37 and 49. The first essay reviews an extensive collection of literature from most major applied economics journals in recent years. These past studies attempted to investigate the impacts of various land use policies, including minimum-lot-size zoning, open space protection, wetland conservation, etc. These studies demonstrate how land use policies might affect residents' land consumption, social welfare, land markets, local government finance, and urban development patterns. Various econometric and mathematical models have been used to overcome problems related to modeling and data, such as spatial correlation. The objective of the second essay is to investigate the effect of the minimum-lot-size zoning on land values versus the value of individual exemptions from the regulations. The study first assumes all residents live in a monocentric city and have the same income constraints, and then assumes that there are two income groups living in the monocentric city. Minimum-lot-size zoning is applied to the periphery of the city. As stated in the study by Jaeger and Plantinga (special report, June 2007), distinguishing between two concepts - the change in property value due to regulation and the value to a landowner of an individual exemption to a regulation - is important to estimate the potential impact of Measure 37 and 49. Therefore, this study will explore both cases: 1) the removal of minimum-lot-size zoning from all parcels, and 2) having a single parcel exempted from zoning. Both open-city and closed-city scenarios will be considered. The comparative statics will show how the zoning policy influences urban land values. In addition, a simulation will help to demonstrate the impact of policy changes. The third essay uses the two-stage hedonic model to estimate the demand for lot size. The first stage estimation allows us to estimate the marginal impact of zoning policies, while the second stage estimation is used to investigate how land values are affected by the non-marginal change in zoning policies, such as the elimination of zoning or changes related to Measure 37. In the first stage estimation, the zoning policy is assumed to have two conflicting impacts on the land value; the regulation reduces development opportunities while it also may provide more environmental benefits. In the empirical model, four Oregon counties are considered as separate land markets, and the distribution of consumers' tastes are assumed to be the same across the counties. This provides a tool for solving the identification problem in the second stage estimation.
Download or read book In Pursuit of Land Tenure Security written by Henri Dekker and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pursuit of Land Tenure Security is a unique book that takes the reader on an international tour of perceptions of land tenure security. It contains an anthology of essays based on contacts with people during assignments in various parts of the world over a period of several years. The essays describe the human pursuit for a higher level of land tenure security. Because land tenure security is a perception, the use of stories of human experience introduces the reader to an array of issues associated with land tenure, among them controversial approaches to providing land tenure security. In this way the pursuit of land tenure security becomes a captivating story for anyone interested in land related policies, land related studies, and all those who have discovered the importance of protection of the rights to real property by people, all over the world.
Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Land Use Change written by Johanna Jussila Hammes and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Land Use Economics written by Daniel Morgan Miles and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy written by Robert John Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Water Quality written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Water written by Jordan Frederick Suter and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Land and Housing written by Atsuko Kamen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Social Networks Land Tenure and Productivity written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Models of Tropical Deforestation A Review written by David Kaimowitz and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Types of economic deforestation models. Household and firm-level models. Regional-level models. National and macro-level models. Priority areas for future research.
Download or read book Land Tenure and Rural Development written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by FAO. This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication deals with key issues in land tenure, especially as they relate to food insecurity and rural development situations. Land tenure issues are frequently ignored in rural development interventions, with often long-lasting, negative results. This guide is designed to assist technical officers in governments and civil society in understanding why and how land tenure issues should be considered in rural development projects. It analyses important contexts such as environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and conflicts, where land tenure is currently of critical concern.
Download or read book Sustainable Agricultural Development written by Mohamed Behnassi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to many challenges (i.e. climate change, energy, water and land shortage, high demands on food, land grabbing, etc.), agriculture production potential is expected to be seriously affected; thus, increasing food insecurity and hunger in many already affected regions (especially in Africa). In this context, sustainable agriculture is highly recommended as an eco-system approach where soil, water, plants, environment and living organisms live in harmony. Innovative technologies and research should be developed to ensure sustainable agriculture and productivity using modern irrigation systems, improved varieties, improved soil quality, etc. In the meantime, the preservation of natural environment should be based on resource conservation technologies and best management practices. Sustainable Agricultural Development, not only raises the serious ethical and social issues underlying these huge environmental problems, but also aims at presenting successful experiences from all over the world in relation with sustainable farming, sustainable management of water and land resources, and innovative processes in livestock production. It also aims at providing inputs to decision making processes and encouraging the transfer of relevant know-how, technologies and expertise to different countries where similar agro-climatic conditions may exist; thus saving precious resources and promoting sustainable agricultural development as a relevant approach to tackle the food security challenge. Finally, this book focuses on the paradigmatic and policy dimensions and call for an innovative approach by analyzing the key themes in a complex and interrelated manner.
Download or read book Promised Land written by Peter Rosset and published by Food First Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first harvest in the English language of the work of the Land Research Action Network (LRAN). LRAN is an international working group of researchers, analysts, nongovernment organizations, and representatives of social movements. -- pref.
