A salient question in range management relates to the relative significance of the stocking rate versus the length of time during which livestock animals graze a specific rangeland. In recent times, Batabyal and his colleagues have provided a theoretical answer to this question. Given the...

This chapter uses a new ecological-economic approach to analyze the role of time in range management in a dynamic and stochastic setting. We first construct a theoretical model of a parcel of rangeland in which time restrictions are used to manage the land. We then show how the dynamic and the...

In spite of a manager's best attempts, a managed rangeland may hit an irreversible state in which it provides neither consumptive nor non-consumptive services to humans. Therefore, given a particular time based management regime, it is useful to know how long it takes for a rangeland to hit the...

For rangelands managed with spatial and temporal controls, [a] the long run expected net cost of management operations, [b] the long run rate at which grazing is moved from one paddock to another, and [c] the long run rate at which grazing has to be moved from one paddock to another because of...

In spite of a manager's best attempts, a managed rangeland may hit an irreversible state in which it provides neither consumptive nor non-consumptive services to humans. Therefore, given a particular time based management regime, it is useful to know how long it takes for a rangeland to hit the...

For rangelands managed with spatial and temporal controls, [a] the long run mean net cost of management operations, [b] the long run rate of moving grazing from one paddock to another, and [c] the long run rate of moving grazing between paddocks because of adverse environmental factors are...

A fundamental objective of rangeland managers all over the world is to take measures to ensure that the rangeland being managed stays away from irreversible states in which it provides little or no consumptive and non-consumptive services to humans. Nevertheless, despite a manager's best...

The purpose of this paper is to point out the necessity to use new instruments for an integrated waste management system. Waste Stock Exchange is an innovative and efficient instrument, if introduced in a solid legal and economic context, as is typical of a free and competitive market. The Waste...

Forest policy in Ireland has focused on the expansion of forest cover in recent years to increase ecosystem services, but in spite of financial support to incentivize farmers to afforest previously agricultural land and the high returns of farm forestry relative to the agricultural alternatives,...

The paper focuses on analysis of Central Asian hydro- energetic system and water usage in Tian Shan region. Tian Shan system is an important water resource in Central Asia: river waters are intensely taken for hydropower energy, urban systems, irrigation. But geopolitics in Tian Shan is...