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Eco-governance in Bulgarian Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2010
This paper presents the evolution of diverse modes of environmental management in Bulgarian agriculture, and assesses their efficiency and likely prospects of development. First, it analyzes the pace of development and the impact(s) on individual behavior of the major modes of environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221800
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Agro-Ecosystem Services – Governance Needs and Efficiency
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2010
This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223743
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Assessing environmental management in agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012
This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230024
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How substitutable are fixed factors in production? evidence from pre-industrial England
Wilde, Joshua - 2012
Whether fixed factors such as land constrain per-capita income growth depends crucially on two variables: the substitutability of fixed factors in production, and the extent to which innovation is biased towards land-saving technologies. This paper attempts to quantify both. Using the timing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015232388
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How Substitutable are Fixed Factors in Production? Evidence from Pre-industrial England
Wilde, Joshua - 2012
Whether fixed factors such as land constrain per-capita income growth depends crucially on two variables: the substitutability of fixed factors in production, and the extent to which innovation is biased towards land-saving technologies. This paper attempts to quantify both. Using the timing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015232814
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Land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Albuquerque Sant'Anna, André - 2012
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian … statistical evidence to support the existence of a direct relationship between land inequality and deforestation. Nevertheless …, when one takes into account the effects of land inequality on deforestation through its interaction with credit and land …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015235350
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Cost-effectiveness of buying land for conservation versus paying land-users for conservation measures – the case of preserving an oligotrophic lake in a Natura 2000 area in North Germany
Schöttker, Oliver; Wätzold, Frank - 2017
Cost-effective implementation of measures to conserve biodiversity is often a major target of conservation organisations, and choosing the correct mode of governance can be important in this context. Nature conservation organisations can, in principle, choose between two distinct modes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257079
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Land consumption and farming concentration in mature economies: the Veneto region
De Pin, Antonio - 2016
Land Consumption and Farming Concentration in Mature Economies: the Veneto Region. In this paper, we will discuss how soil consumption in mature economies is increasingly affecting farmland with measurable effects on the loss of eco-systemic services of agriculture. Different sets of indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015258205
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L’insostenibile consumo di terreno agricolo
De Pin, Antonio - 2016
Consumption of agricultural land through various forms of degradation, erosion, compaction, waterproofing, has an impact on the entire primary sector, with increasing costs. Thus, if the Italian surface is 30 million hectares, 17 is the total agricultural (SAT), but only 12 is actually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015258208
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Le trasformazioni delle strutture agricole del Veneto tra il 2000 ed il 2010
De Pin, Antonio - 2014
The process of restructuring the Venetian agriculture economy is among the most intense, rapid and tumultuous. It appears in some ways uncontrolled. The production reallocation seems to follow the Ricardian model. More and more focused on the plain, the particular land regime lies in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015258210