Abstract Sustainable land use is one of the emergent mountain concerns which requires immediate policy and regulatory attention. This study examines change prices at three different 5-yearly intervals: 2019, 2014 2009 respectively in urbanizing districts Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan. Empirical evidences are gathered by using mixed-method approaches. Findings suggest that households’ holdings culti...

This paper presents first-hand evidence about land distribution and the impact of land markets from a sample of 36 villages in East and Central Uganda, a region with a long tradition of both land market activity and rural-rural migration. Rather than leading to a concentration of land assets in the hands of a minority, land markets correct initial inequality in land endowments : a handicap of o...

This paper analyzes the role of global land-use in determining potential greenhouse gas mitigation by land-based activities in agriculture and forestry. Land-based activities are responsible for over a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet the economics of land-use decisions have not been explicitly modeled in global mitigation studies. In this paper, we develop a new, general equilibri...

Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the financial assistance provided by the Rural Research and Development Corporation for the project DAN92A, which partly funded this work. This report was prepared over a number of years and as is evident from the references some parts of the work led to joint papers with a number of other staff from NSW Agriculture including The objective of this rep...

Land-use change has a significant impact on the world’s ecosystems. Changes in the extent and composition of forests, grasslands, wetlands and other ecosystems have large impacts on the provision of ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation and returns to landowners. While the change in private returns to landowners due to land-use change can often be measured, changes in the supply and val...

Our work is regarding the analysis of land use changes, in the light of “saving soil” against the expansion due to unearned plus value of land: The loss of natural and agricultural surface in front of the expanding urban environment is a critical aspect of unsustainability of urban development, especially in the way it was carried out in the past decades. The measure of the physical transition ...

Effects of watershed and riparian zone characteristics on nutrient concentrations in the River Scheldt Basin J. Meynendonckx, G. Heuvelmans, B. Muys, and J. Feyen Ecosystem Management Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Ecorem consultants nv, Kontichsesteenweg 38, 2630 Aartselaar, Belgium Department of Land Management and Economics, Faculty of Bioscience En...

The MARORA model is used to evaluate the economics of investment in on-farm reservoirs in Arkansas under alternative land tenure arrangements. A declining groundwater supply coupled with a high percentage of rice-production area owned by absentee landowners makes investment decision-making on on-farm reservoirs an important issue for the sustainability of rice in Arkansas. The MARORA model is s...