As the global population continues to urbanize, increasing pressure is put upon urban centers and carrying capacity of already built-up areas. One way meet these demands horizontal expansion, which requires new lands become incorporated into centers. In most cases, this demand met by converting peri-urban land as center expands. These processes expansion peri-urban, however, create tension rega...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between forest tenure and investment in silviculture. Silvicultural activities and expenditures on a large number of recently logged tracts in British Columbia, under four distinct forms of tenure, are assessed using a silvicultural investment model based on the conventional theory of capital. The empirical results indicate that silvicu...

This paper uses remote sensing data from 1989 to 2000 to examine the impacts of price liberalization, land tenure, and biophysical characteristics on farmland abandonment in the border region of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Using regression analysis and matching estimators, we find that differences in biophysical characteristics, rather than in tenure systems, best explain the variation in ab...

The security of farmland property rights is an important factor that affects investment and succession, farm succession highly significant for achieving sustainable agricultural development. In this study, based on survey data obtained from 1012 apple growers in Shandong Shaanxi Provinces, we analyzed the impact land tenure willingness farmers related paths by constructing binary logistic regre...

Inequalities generally exist in society regarding the distribution of resources including land. This paper assessed inequalities customary land rights and tenure security among smallholder farmers northwest Ghana using social structure theory. exploratory study adopted focus group discussions, interviews key informants persons institutions area. It also used visual manual interpretation satelli...