Search Results - subject:"utilization."

Fu, Shihe - 2020

The Chinese government has been using annual quotas to control the amount of farm-land that can be converted for urban uses in cities. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease transactions during 2007-2016, we document facts on land conversion for urban development in China. We present...

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Cities and Biodiversity : Spatial Efficiency of Land Use

Yoshida, Jun - 2020

Biologically important but dangerous wildlife creatures encroach into cities, which causes human-wildlife conflicts. To explore the effect of the encroachment of wildlife into cities on equilibrium land use and its efficiency, we develop an equilibrium theory of land used for humans and wildlife...

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Financing Land Acquisition for Infrastructure Projects

Chowdhry, Bhagwan - 2020

Land acquisition for infratructure projects that require large amount of funding can be financed by an equity-like financing protocol. The auction protocol does not require a knowledge of the reservation value of the land acquired nor does it require a determination of post-development value of...

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A guide for pollinator-friendly cities : how can spatial planners and land-use managers create favourable urban environments for pollinators?

European Commission / Directorate-General for Environment - 2020

Thriving wild pollinator populations are a prerequisite for healthy, resilient green spaces and urban ecosystems. However, wild pollinator populations have declined at alarming rates in Europe intensifying the need for coordinated multi-level action amongst all stakeholders and at all levels of...

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A guide for pollinator-friendly cities : how can spatial planners and land-use managers create favourable urban environments for pollinators?

Wilk, Bettina (contributor); Rebollo, Veronica (contributor) - European Commission / Directorate-General for Environment - 2020

Thriving wild pollinator populations are a prerequisite for healthy, resilient green spaces and urban ecosystems. They provide vital pollination services. Seventy five per cent of the world's main food crops and 85% of wild plants rely on pollinating insects. Aside from the benefits to...

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Building resilient health systems : experimental evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola outbreak

Christensen, Darin; Dube, Oeindrila; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2020

clinic staff. The findings show that, prior to the Ebola crisis, both interventions led to improvements in utilization of …

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Trust or property rights? : can trusted relationships substitute for costly land registration in West African cities?

Letrouit, Lucie; Selod, Harris - 2020

The paper studies the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in an urban land use model, and analyzes households' responses to mitigate tenure insecurity. When buyers and sellers of land plots can pair along trusted kinship lines whereby deception (the...

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The Utilization-adjusted Human Capital Index (UHCI) : background paper the Human Capital Index 2020 update

Pennings, Steven - 2020

fully use their skills and cognitive abilities to increase their productivity. The Utilization-adjusted Human Capital … of a country's UHCI score represents long-run GDP per capita with complete human capital and complete utilization … purposes, and the challenges of measuring utilization mean that the UHCIs should be interpreted with caution for policy …

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The effects of land title registration on tenure security, investment and the allocation of productive resources : evidence from Ghana

Agyei-Holmes, Andrew; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus P. - 2020

Smallholder farmers' investment decisions and the efficiency of resource allocation depend on the security of land tenure. This paper develops a simple model that captures essential institutional features of rural land markets in Ghana, including the dependence of future rights over land on...

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Land use and spatial justice in latin american countries : lessons for Ukraine

Borodina, Olena; Mykhailenko, Oksana; Fraier, Oleksii - In: Economy and forecasting : scientific journal (2020) 4, pp. 82-96

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