the econometric specification most often found in the literature. We then show how the model can be used to project land …-use change into the future and for policy simulation. Finally, we use the model to examine the impact of common land conservation … policies in Europe. -- Land-use change ; urban sprawl ; simulation …

under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under …

much of a role in raising food prices as biofuel policy. By specifying a Ricardian model with differential land quality, we … show that a significant amount of new land will be converted to farming which is likely to cause a modest increase in food … of pasture and forest land for farming. -- clean energy ; food demand ; land quality ; renewable fuel standards …

In this paper stochastic dynamic programming is used to investigate land conversion decisions taken by a multitude of … landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion …

current allocations of land to natural recreationalareas in Galiza are not efficient. …