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Playing Games in the Forest: State-Local Conflicts of Land Appropriation

Angelsen, Arild - In: Land Economics 77 (2001) 2

This paper explores possible strategic interactions between the state and local community in games of tropical forestland appropriation. Three typical cases are discussed, corresponding to a development over time of increased resource competition and market integration. The local response to...

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Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation Beyond the Best Management Practices: Are Forestland Owners Interested?

Matta, Jagannadha R.; Alavalapati, Janaki R. R.; … - In: Land Economics 85 (2009) 1

With the growing recognition of the role of environmental services rendered by private lands, landowner involvement has become a critical component of landscape-level strategies to conserve biodiversity. In this paper, we examine the willingness of private forest owners to participate in a...

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Forest Ownersâ€™ Participation in Voluntary Biodiversity Conservation: What Does It Take to Forgo Forestry for Eternity?

Mitani, Yohei; Lindhjem, Henrik - In: Land Economics 91 (2015) 2

to forestry for eternity, including future generations. To achieve an efficient conservation strategy, it is important to …

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Wildfire Risk Management in a Landscape with Fragmented Ownership and Spatial Interactions

Busby, Gwenlyn M.; Albers, Heidi J.; Montgomery, Claire A. - In: Land Economics 88 (2012) 3

This article examines how the spatial configuration of forest ownership influences risk-mitigating behavior of public and private forestland owners over time. We use a game theoretic framework to examine how the public landowner’s investment in fuel management influences, and is influenced by,...

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Rural Land Use: Traditional Agriculture or Forestry?

Behan, Jasmina; McQuinn, Kieran; Roche, Maurice J. - In: Land Economics 82 (2006) 1

The signing of the Kyoto Protocol and the official recognition of forestry’s capacity to sequester carbon has prompted … considerable interest, within the European Union, in forestry as a competing land use application. However, despite large increases … in grants to forestry, afforestation rates, in certain EU countries, are below national targets. In this paper, we employ …

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Do Landowners Respond to Land Retirement Incentives? Evidence from the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

Suter, Jordan F.; Poe, Gregory L.; Bills, Nelson L. - In: Land Economics 84 (2008) 1

Previous research on incentive responsivness in voluntary land retirement programs has utilized either hypothetical contingent response methods or actual aggregate enrollment data, both of which suffer from potential biases. In this paper, we analyze program participation in the binary-choice...

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The Development of a Land Market? Insights from Côte d’Ivoire

Colin, Jean-Philippe; Ayouz, Mourad - In: Land Economics 82 (2006) 3

This paper contributes to the debate on rural land sales in Africa. First, it shows that the emergence of sales in the forested area of Côte d’Ivoire corresponds to an "imperfect" land commoditization, due to the social embedding of land transfers in the autochthon-migrant relationship. Then,...

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Farmland Retention Techniques: Property Rights Implications and Comparative Evaluation

Duke, Joshua M.; Lynch, Lori - In: Land Economics 82 (2006) 2

A conceptual framework distinguishes farmland retention institutions and with a survey of various literatures, interviews, and original policy design, classifies 28 techniques in four types: regulatory, incentive-based, governmental-participatory, and hybrid. The analysis reveals that techniques...

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A Relative Efficiency Analysis of Farmland Preservation Programs

Lynch, Lori; Musser, Wesley N. - In: Land Economics 77 (2001) 4

While agricultural land preservation programs seek to maximize the number of acres, to preserve productive farms, to preserve contiguous farms, and to preserve threatened farms, they are often evaluated solely on the number of acres preserved. Preserved parcels in four Maryland counties were...

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Are There Spatial Spillovers in the Adoption of Clean Technology? The Case of Organic Dairy Farming

Lewis, David J.; Barham, Bradford L.; Robinson, Brian - In: Land Economics 87 (2011) 2

This paper examines spatial spillovers associated with the adoption of organic dairy farming. We hypothesize that neighboring farmers can help to reduce the uncertainty of organic conversion by lowering the fixed costs of learning about the organic system. A spatially explicit 10-year panel...

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