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 non-disclosure of competing claims on a land plot to a buyer) is …

biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of … land for protection and the causal effect of protection on vegetation cover and nightlights. Our results reveal protection … of land and climate attributes. We conclude that European conservation efforts lack ambition because policymakers select …

We study a fundamental institution in many societies: the structure of property rights over land. Across societies …, communal land rights have been more common than private land rights. We test the hypothesis that longer fallow requirements … - the time needed to leave land uncultivated to restore fertility - led to a higher prevalence of communal property rights …

trends of ecosystem services linked to agriculture, including issues related to land use. Secondly, results are presented …

change mitigation, climate change adaptation, biodiversity, desertification, and local environmental issues). Data collected …

There are now a large number of valuation studies on the benefits of biodiversity and on ecosystem services, the … research community has focussed on ESS as the main organising framework, with some additional use of the biodiversity concept …

counter these in selected OECD countries. More specifically, the paper begins with an overview of the main biodiversity and … trends in both pesticide sales (per 1000 ha of agricultural land area), and pesticide use (in tonnes of active ingredients …

The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …