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Multitask moral hazard, incentive contracts and land value
Dubois, P. - Département d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales, … - 2001
Sharecropping theory generally does not take into account land fertility. We develop a repeated Principal-Agent model under moral hazard where the Principal delegates the use and maintenance of a productive asset. In a multitask framework, we characterize the optimal spot contract focusing on...
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Perspectives of Livestock Farmers in an Urbanized Environment
Paniagua, Ángel - In: Land 3 (2013) 1, pp. 19-33
perspectives and responses of farmers on the urban-rural fringe. The problems associated with land use change and the varying … perspectives of farmers: extensification, changes in the organization of farm, relocation, <i>etc</i>. The purpose of this research … farmers directly affected by the urbanization process. The main results reflect the relevance of local politics and the …
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Property Rights and Environmental Policy: A New Zealand Perspective
Guerin, Kevin - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2003
This paper is intended to lay out a preliminary foundation for applying a property rights perspective to environmental policy issues facing New Zealand. It does not attempt to apply such an approach to any specific issue. Rather it summarises the core principles behind effective rights regimes...
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Multifunctional Agriculture and the Preservation of Environmental Benefits
Hediger, Werner; Lehmann, Bernard - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 143 (2007) IV, pp. 449-470
concerns into account, we propose compensation of farmers and forest managers according to the marginal external benefit of … requirements, would not cause additional market distortions, and leave the property rights on the land with the farmers while …
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What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies - Working Paper 361
Ferretti-Gallon, Kalifi; Busch, Jonah - 2014
We have constructed a comprehensive database of 117 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation published in peer-reviewed academic journals from 1996-2013. We present a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based on the signs and significance of 5909...
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The Adoption and Impact of Soil and Water Conservation Technology: An Endogenous Switching Regression Application
Abdulai, Awudu; Huffman, Wallace - In: Land Economics 90 (2014) 1
This paper identifies the factors that affect farmers’ decisions to adopt soil and water conservation technology in … survey of 342 rice farmers in northern Ghana shows that farmers’ education, capital and labor constraints, social networks …
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Crop Insurance and pesticide use in French agriculture: an empirical analysis
Chakir, Raja; Hardelin, Julien - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 95 (2014) 1, pp. 25-50
with pesticide use for a sample of French farmers on the period 1993-2004, for the Meuse department. An econometric model … at farm level. These results shed light on the determinants of French farmers’ decisions related to risk management. …
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Sviluppo sostenibile e vulnerabilità del territorio italiano alla desertificazione
Salvati, Luca; Rugiero, Serena - In: ARGOMENTI 2013/38 (2013) 38, pp. 83-96
In questo lavoro viene presentata una valutazione del territorio italiano al rischio di desertificazione come fenomeno ambientale potenzialmente legato al tema dello sviluppo sostenibile delle regioni Mediterranee. Il tema è particolarmente rilevante per le implicazioni ecologiche e...
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Development of a Historical Multi-Year Land Cover Classification Incorporating Wildfire Effects
Morrison, Katherine D.; Kolden, Crystal A. - In: Land 3 (2014) 4, pp. 1214-1231
Land cover change impacts ecosystem function across the globe. The use of land cover data is vital in the detection of these changes over time; however, most available land cover products, such as the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), are produced relatively infrequently. The most recent NLCD...
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Landscape Fire, Biodiversity Decline and a Rapidly Changing Milieu: A Microcosm of Global Issues in an Australian Biodiversity Hotspot
Gill, A. Malcolm; McKenna, David J.; Wouters, Michael A. - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 1091-1136
The Adelaide-Mt Lofty Region of South Australia is an exemplar, in microcosm, of the issues confronting biodiversity conservation in a world of increasing population and a drying, fire-prone environment. At just 0.1% of Australia’s terrestrial land mass, this area is largely peninsular and...
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