LAND DEGRADATION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: ISSUES AND POLICY OPTIONS FOR 2020
A CONTINUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION POLICY: THE CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM
ECONOMIC EFFECT OF IMPERFECT INFORMATION ON CONSERVATION DECISIONS
Cotton farmers in the Piedmont region incorrectly believe conservation systems with winter cover crop and no-till cultivation yield less than conventional systems. We model the effect of organic matter on productivity and show how ignoring this effect causes returns to be underestimated. Farmers with imperfect information underinvest in residue management.
Planning and Sustainable Management: A Re-Examination of the Peri-Urban Problem
This paper examines the economics of urban expansion onto rural land in light of the sustainable management requirements of New Zealand's Resource Management Act. It finds that if conversion of land from rural to urban uses is practically irreversible because of the high cost of restoring rural qualities, it creates a user cost or inter-temporal externality which planning controls could address. Comparison of the methods for implementing such a policy show tradable development rights have high efficiency, but there are legal, practical and political obstacles to their use.
The Implications of the Resource Management Act to Property Rights in Agriculture Land Use in New Zealand
The Resource Management Act 1991 sets new standards for environmental regulations in New Zealand. The emphasis of the legislation is on property rights and market solutions. This paper is concerned with the limits to market solutions in the presence of externalities and potentially high transaction costs.
FORMS OF PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE IMPACTS OF CHANGING OWNERSHIP
AGRICULTURAL LAND VALUES AND URBAN GROWTH; Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Agriculture, Food, and the Environment, June 17-18, 1996, Padova, Italy
RETHINKING THE DEMAND FOR INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION LAND RIGHTS AND LAND MARKETS IN THE WEST AFRICAN SAHEL
In contrast to literature which focuses on the how collective action problems inhibit the supply of efficient institutions, this paper uses dynamic stochastic general equilibrium methods to study the demand for institutional innovation. Focusing on the innovation of alienabile land rights in the West African Sahel, this microeconomic approach offers several contributions to the theory of institutional innovation.