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Can land taxes foster sustainable development? An assessment of fiscal, distributional and implementation issues

Land Use Policy Volume 78

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2018
Indonesia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
development
land tax
land use
research
sustainable development
Economists argue that land rent taxation is an ideal form of taxation as it causes no deadweight losses. Nevertheless, pure land rent taxation is rarely applied. This paper revisits the case of land taxation for developing countries. We first provide an up-to-date review on land taxation in development countries, including feasibility and implementation challenges. We then simulate land tax reforms for Rwanda, Peru, Nicaragua and Indonesia, based on household surveys.
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The “sowing of concrete”: Peri-urban smallholder perceptions of rural–urban land change in the Central Peruvian Andes

Land Use Policy Volume 38

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2014
Peru
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
research
urban land
Policy makers concerned with the peri-urban interface find their greatest challenges in the rapid urban growth of developing mountain regions, since limitations caused by relief and altitude often lead to an increased competition between rural and urban land use at the valley floors. In this context, little attention has been paid to the affected agriculturalists’ perceptions of peri-urban growth—important information required for the realization of sustainable land use planning. How is the process of rural–urban land change perceived and assessed by peri-urban smallholder communities?
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Regrowing forests contribution to law compliance and carbon storage in private properties of the Brazilian Amazon

Land Use Policy Volume 88

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2019
Brazil, Canada, France, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forestry
land use
research
The viability of the climate pledges made by Brazil at the COP21 in Paris, 2015, heavily depends on the success of the country policies related to forest governance. Particularly, there are high expectations that the enforcement of the Brazilian Forest Code (BFC) will drive large-scale forest recovery and carbon mitigation. In this study, we quantified the potential role that ongoing forest regeneration may play in offsetting deficits from private properties with less vegetation cover than determined by the BFC, considering different law implementation settings.
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A local perspective on drivers and measures to slow deforestation in the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Colombia

Land Use Policy Volume 77

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2018
Colombia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
environment
land use
research
sustainable land management
Colombia’s Andean-Amazonian foothills are among the most pressing deforestation hotspots in the country. Yet, the relationships and dependencies of underlying deforestation drivers are not well understood. For an adequate territorial reorganization in the post-conflict era that is sensitive to local context, a targeted analysis of the present situation at the local level is required. This study investigates direct and indirect deforestation drivers, relationships among these and potential measures to lower deforestation post-conflict.
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Climate financing needs in the land sector under the Paris Agreement: An assessment of developing country perspectives

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Brazil, Canada, France, Indonesia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
climate change
land use
research
This paper explores the potential of climate finance to support developing country efforts to shift away from unsustainable land use patterns in the context of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. We pursue two research objectives here. Through a meta-analysis of 40 developing country Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), we provide, first, a comprehensive qualitative overview of developing country perspectives on climate financing needs for mitigation and adaptation activities in the land use, land-use change and forestry sectors (LULUCF).
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Modeling residential development in California from 2000 to 2050: Integrating wildfire risk, wildland and agricultural encroachment

Land Use Policy Volume 41

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2014
Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
encroachment
land use
research
sustainable land management
Between 1940 and 2000, nearly 10 million housing units were constructed throughout California. This increased interaction between human and natural communities creates a number of significant socio-ecological challenges. Here we present a novel spatially explicit model that allows better characterization of the extent and intensity of future housing settlements using three development scenarios between 2000 and 2050. We estimate that California's exurban land classes will replace nearly 12 million acres of wild and agricultural lands.
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Reterritorialization practices and strategies of campesinos in the urban frontier of Bogotá, Colombia

Land Use Policy Volume 99

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Colombia, South America, Central America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
land-use planning
research
urban areas
urban planning
urbanization
Much of the research on urbanization has focused on how rural populations move to cities for work opportunities. This paper takes a different perspective on the relations between rural populations and urbanization. The livelihoods of rural dwellers on the outskirts of the city of Bogotá in Colombia are increasingly affected by the expansion of urban activities and infrastructure. Therefore, urbanization takes place in the areas of residence of the rural populations; these people do not migrate to the city but, rather, the city migrates to them.
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The agricultural, environmental and socio-political repercussions of Brazil's land governance system

Land Use Policy Volume 36

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2014
Brazil
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land governance
land productivity
land use
research
Although many contemporary studies of agriculture associate larger properties with higher relative productivity, this assumption has limited relevancy for the analysis of situations in which property owners profit more from large-scale property accumulation itself rather than any superiority in exploitation opportunities offered by increased size. In Brazil, the efficiency-of-scale paradigm has been used to criticize peasant agriculture as unproductive and hide contradictions deriving from land concentration.
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Aerial river management by smart cross-border reforestation

Land Use Policy Volume 84

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2019
Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Venezuela
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest management plans
forestry
land use
research
In the face of increasing socio-economic and climatic pressures in growing cities, it is rational for managers to consider multiple approaches for securing water availability. One often disregarded option is the promotion of reforestation in source regions supplying important quantities of atmospheric moisture transported over long distances through aerial rivers, affecting water resources of a city via precipitation and runoff (‘smart reforestation’). Here we present a case demonstrating smart reforestation’s potential as a water management option.
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Livestock-derived greenhouse gas emissions in a diversified grazing system in the endangered Pampa biome, Southern Brazil

Land Use Policy Volume 75

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2018
Brazil, Greece, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
grazing
land use
livestock
research
Discussions about climate change have repeatedly regarded livestock as responsible for a significant contribution of greenhouse gas emissions. However, proper management schemes for livestock production may contribute to a reduction in emissions and, at the same time, induce optimization of production systems and intensification of food production.