Intro -- Series Preface-Land Reconstruction and Management -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction to Better Land Husbandry -- 1.1 LAND AND SOIL DEGRADATION -- 1.2 SOIL CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES -- 1.2.1 Controlling Runoff and Preventing Erosion -- 1.2.2 Farmer Adoption and...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: Theoretical Considerations -- 2 The Concept of Rent: Is Land Unique? -- 3 The Theory of Welfare Measurement -- 4 Property Rights, Market Failure, Externality, and Environmental Economics -- Part Two: Project...

Given that both the costs and the benefits of biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures are subject to spatial variation, considerations of allocational efficiency call for spatially differentiated compensation payments for such measures. However, when deciding whether to implement uniform or...

Intro -- Title page -- Table of content -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Natural Land -- 2 Profiles -- Part II Degraded Land -- 3 Functions -- 4 Properties -- 5 Erosion -- 6 Chemical degradation -- 7 Physical degradation -- Part III Remediating Land -- 8 Investigation -- 9 Remediation --...

An integrated ecological-economic decision-making approach is developed to help local stakeholders decide on land use in rural areas where the conflict between natural resource protection and economic development is pressing. It consists of four methodological steps. In the first step the...

Both crop rotational diversity and landscape diversity are important for ensuring resilient agricultural production and supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. However, the relationship between crop rotational diversity and landscape diversity is largely...