The choice of cultivation techniques is a key determinant of agricultural productivityand has important consequences for income growth and poverty reductionin developing countries. Using household data from Nicaragua this papershows that the choice of cultivation techniques depends on farmers’...

Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analysedriving forces for land-use conversion and to assess, whether the German political “30-hectares-goal” is feasible given the current institutional setting. In this paper major drivingforces for...

This article incorporates a political decision process into an urban land use model topredict the likely location of a public good. It fills an important gap in the literature bymodeling the endogenous location of open space. The article compares open spacedecisions made under a majority-rules...

Das gesamte Modul soll normative und ethische Fragen aufzeigen, die sich bezüglich der zukünftigenWaldnutzung stellen. Es macht Interessen, Normen und Wertvorstellungen transparent.Beide Papiere dienen der Diskussionsphase des Projekts als Grundlage. Sie sollen aufgrundihrer bewusst...