This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...

Introduction -- Conceptual definition of poverty and land degradation -- The case of rural poverty and environmental degradation in Ghana - Kwahu South District -- Demographic characteristics of respondents -- Manifestations of poverty in rural areas of Ghana -- Causes of poverty --...

Schlagworte deutsch: Umweltrisiko, Nachhaltigkeit, Normen, Namibia, Feldexperimente, Weideland. Schlagworte englisch: environmental risk, sustainability, personel, norms, Namibia, field experiments, rangelands

The developing economies of Asia are confronted by serious environmental problems that threaten to undermine future growth, food security, and regional stability. This study considers four major environmental challenges that policymakers across developing Asia will need to address towards 2030:...

We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the normactivation theory and operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands of Namibia, a system that is subject to extensive...

We study risk preferences and their determinants for commercial cattle farmers in Namibia who are subject to high and heterogeneous precipitation risk, using data from questionnaire and field experiments, simulated data for on-farm precipitation risk and data on famers' previous place of...

In ökonomischen Aspekten der Revitalisierung von vorgenutzten Grundstücken sieht der Arbeitskreis Flächenrecycling der Gesellschaft für Immobilienwirtschaftliche Forschung e.V. (gif) den Kern seines Wirkens. Wichtige Ergebnisse sollen nun in dem vorliegenden Arbeitspapier der Öffentlichkeit...