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City and countryside revisited : comparative rent movements in London and the South-East, 1580 - 1914
Ormrod, David; Gibson, James M.; Lyne, Owen - 2011
Economic historians have traditionally argued that urban growth in England was driven primarily by prior improvements in agricultural supply in the two centuries before the industrial revolution. Recent revisionist scholarship by writers such as Jan Luiten van Zanden and Robert Allen has...
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Integrated assessment modeling of climate change adaptation in forestry and pasture land use: A review
Rose, Steven K. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 548-554
future impacts from climate change. Climate risks to forestry, pasture, and livestock are potential risks that need to be …Climate change is likely to affect commercial forest and pasture land use and production activities. As such … paper reviews and characterizes climate change adaptation modeling of forestry and pasture land use by IAMs, as well as …
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Integrated assessment modeling of climate change adaptation in forestry and pasture land use : a review
Rose, Steven K. - In: Energy economics 46 (2014), pp. 548-554
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Major Uses of Land in The United States, 2002
Lubowski, Ruben N.; Vesterby, Marlow; Bucholtz, Shawn; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2006
); grassland pasture and range land, 587 million acres (25.9 percent); cropland, 442 million acres (19.5 percent); special uses …
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Commercial Pressures and Legal Rights: The Trouble with the Law Regulating Agricultural Investment in Africa
Cotula, Lorenzo - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2013) 2
As revived private-sector interest in African agriculture aggravates commercial pressures on land, the national, international and transnational legal frameworks define the rights, obligations, enforcement mechanisms and arenas for negotiation and contestation among the manifold actors brought...
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Development of land rental market and its effect on household farming in rural China : an empirical study in Zhejiang Province
Hoken, Hisatoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of land rental market development on the efficiency of labor allocation and land utilization in rural China. To test the hypothesis that the shadow wage of a rent-in household with limited off-farm opportunities will increase with the development of a land...
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Gradual Land-use Change in New Zealand: Results from a Dynamic Econometric Model
Kerr, Suzi; Olssen, Alex - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012
Rural land use is important for New Zealand’s economic and environmental outcomes. Using a dynamic econometric model and recent New Zealand data, we estimate the response of land use to changing economic returns as proxied by relevant commodity prices. Because New Zealand is small, export...
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Temporal spillovers in land conservation
Jacobson, Sarah - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 107 (2014) PA, pp. 366-379
Temporal spillovers occur when a conservation program changes what happens to land outside the temporal window of the conservation contract. This may happen when conservation improves land so that returns to non-conservation uses are increased, or when landowners’ preferences become more...
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Land use and land acquisition laws in India
Hoda, Anwarul - 2018
The enactment of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Act, 2013, has made sweeping changes in the land acquisition laws of India (LARR Act, 2013). By increasing the compensation for acquired land, mandating a social impact...
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AgriLOVE: Agriculture, land-use and technical change in an evolutionary, agent-based model
Coronese, Matteo; Occelli, Martina; Lamperti, Francesco; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel agent-based model of land use and technological change in the agricultural sector under environmental boundaries, finite available resources and changing land productivity. In particular, we model a spatially explicit economy populated by boundedly-rational farmers...
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