While the vast majority of forestlands in Canada are considered “Crown land,” there key areas private forestland. On land incidents fee simple ownership mean owner emerges...

In recent years, forests are exposed to various meteorological disasters. The climate change and warming of atmosphere cause more intensive and frequent occurrences in the atmosphere. This is also reflected in Slovenian forests in particular in the form of windthrow, snow-damage, landslides and avalanches, and in 2014 a catastrophic ice storm. Some forecasts indicate that the future will bring ...

Western land development initiatives by the federal government led to a fragmented ownership in much of western Oregon. A project to examine the feasibility of voluntary land exchanges between public and private owners to increase ecological health of fish and other species in Umpqua Basin while maintaining timber supply has been initiated. A landscape model has been developed to quantitatively...

Long-range regional projections of the changes in forest type areas are important in public and private forest resources planning. The combination of natural forces and human activities, which are shaped by socioeconomic forces such as population and income trends, has led to striking changes in forest cover types for the three major types of private owners. A model for the U.S. Southeast is pr...

In his classic book, Structure and Change in Economic History, Douglass North sums up the nature of the ancient Egyptian state. As religious ruler, the pharaoh was the ultimate owner of land, which was controlled mainly by temples and state officials. But when the Romans conquered Egypt in 30 BC, agrarian property rights were at a turning point. Private landowners became politically dominant an...

This paper assesses the impact of Siam’s 1901 Land Title Deed Act on land markets and land use in Bangkok. Using a sample of orchard title deeds issued in the 1880s, this study investigates the incidence of land transfers and subsequent land use patterns both before and after the transition from usufruct to full private ownership rights as a result of the 1901 Act. Survival analysis shows that ...

Perturbation and matched asymptotic expansion methods are shown to be useful to the study of land economics. In the context of residential land management theory, the present study complements a previous analysis of locational equilibrium economic models for residential land in Wan [1977] and extends it beyond absentee ownership to include public ownership and mixed ownership. The dependence of...

In this two part analysis I attempt to answer questions with reference to historical land use and tenurial systems in Bhutan. The first part throws light on the popularly held view that land tenure in Bhutan was feudal prior to the advent of moderisation. By looking at the lived experiences of peasants in Bhutan, as human agents at the nexus of social, political, economic, and ecological forces...

Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest agrarian civilizations in the world. With the introduction of writing (about 3300 BC) institutions such as temples, the crown and others produced large amounts of documents dealing with agriculture, the organization of the agricultural workforce, the management of cultivated land, etc. Yet the very origins of these documents, as well as the vivid descriptio...