Extensive land and market reform in Vietnam has resulted in dramatic increases in rice output over the past thirty years. The land and market reforms in agriculture were pervasive, moving the system of rice production from commune-based public ownership and control to one with effective private property rights over land and farm assets, competitive domestic markets and individual decision makin...

This paper optimises projected land-use structure in 2020 with the goal of increasing terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage and simulates its spatial distribution using the CLUE-S model. We found the following: The total carbon densities of different land use types were woodland > water area > cultivated land > built-up land > grassland > shallows. Under the optimised land-use structure projecte...

In Europe and often worldwide, national local government authorities utilise different means to stimulate economic development environmental protection of the land through application consolidation. The direction these efforts should take into consideration fact that some administrative regions may have a higher potential for consolidation than others. This is supported by Food Agriculture Orga...