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Sustainable crop intensification through surface water irrigation in Bangladesh? A geospatial assessment of landscape-scale production potential

Land Use Policy Volume 60

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Bangladesh, United States of America, Southern Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
assessment
environment
land use
research
scale
sustainable land management
water
Changing dietary preferences and population growth in South Asia have resulted in increasing demand for wheat and maize, along side high and sustained demand for rice. In the highly productive northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, farmers utilize groundwater irrigation to assure that at least two of these crops are sequenced on the same field within the same year. Such double cropping has had a significant and positive influence on regional agricultural productivity. But in the risk-prone and food insecure lower Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains (EIGP), cropping is less intensive.
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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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Not seeing the carbon for the trees? Why area-based targets for establishing new woodlands can limit or underplay their climate change mitigation benefits

Land Use Policy Volume 97

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
research
Area-based targets for afforestation are a frequent and prominent component of policy discourses on forestry, land use and climate change emissions abatement. Such targets imply an expected contribution of afforestation to the net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, yet the nature of afforestation undertaken and its geographical distribution means that there is considerable uncertainty over the eventual emission reductions outcomes.
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Food, farmers, and the future: Investigating prospects of increased food production within a national context

Land Use Policy Volume 67

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2017
Norway, United States of America
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
food security
land use
research
With international food price shocks in 2008 and 2011, food security became a political priority in many countries. In addition, some politicians have recently adopted a more nationalistic stance. Against that background, this paper critically investigates the prospects of increased food production within a national context. We use a small, high-income country, Norway, as an empirical case. In 2012, the government set a goal of increasing agricultural food production by 20% by 2030. We ask: 1) How has food production in Norway developed before and after the goal was set?
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Projected impacts of increased uptake of source control mitigation measures on agricultural diffuse pollution emissions to water and air

Land Use Policy Volume 62

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2017
United Kingdom, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
land use
research
water
A multi-pollutant modelling framework for England and Wales is described. This includes emissions of nitrate, phosphorus and sediment to water and ammonia, methane and nitrous oxide to air, and has been used to characterise baseline (no uptake of on-farm measures) and business-as-usual (BAU) annual pollutant losses, comparing these with the loss under a range of new policies aimed at increasing the uptake of relevant source control measures to 95% across England and Wales.
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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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Bioeconomic modelling – An application of environmentally adjusted economic accounts and the computable general equilibrium model

Land Use Policy Volume 92

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land management
land use
natural resources
natural resources management
research
Building on the current international discourse and United Nation's System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) this study provides further empirical evidences on how failure to include natural capital resources in national accounting leads to erroneous calculation of macroeconomic estimates. The SEEA methodological framework for integrating natural capital into the System of National Accounts amplifies analytical power of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and allows to investigate relationship between the economy and the environment.
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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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Green infrastructure planning: Unveiling meaningful spaces through Foursquare users’ preferences

Land Use Policy Volume 97

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Spain, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
infrastructure
land use
land-use planning
research
sustainable land management
urban areas
urban planning
The design of efficient Green Infrastructure —GI— systems is a key issue to achieve sustainable development city planning goals in the twenty-first century. This study’s main contribution is the identification of potential GI elements to better align the environmental, social and economic perspectives in the GI design by including information about the use, activities, preferences and presence of people. To achieve this, user generated content from Location Based Social Network —LBSN— Foursquare is used as a complementary data source.
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Modelling the production impacts of a widespread conversion to organic agriculture in England and Wales

Land Use Policy Volume 76

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2018
United Kingdom, United States of America
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
food security
land use
research
We assess the production impacts of a 100% conversion to organic agriculture in England and Wales using a large-scale linear programming model. The model includes a range of typical farm structures, scaled up across the available land area, with the objective of maximising food production. The effects of soil and rainfall, nitrogen (N) supply/offtake and livestock feed demand are accounted for. Results reveal major reductions in wheat and barley production, whilst the production of minor cereals such as oats and rye increase.