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immense value of land resources highlights the importance of land in the economy and raises critical questions, such as: • Are land resources so valuable because of scarcity? What are the principal sources of this value? • Are current land use practices efficient, i.e., do we always put land to its highest-valued use?
8 sty 2015 · Land economics includes, among others, land use behaviour and policy and is closely related to resource economics, environmental economics, regional science and urban economics. Given the scope and the diversity of these topics, the statement of the book editors, Jusha M. Duke and Junjie Wu, that ‘this handbook explains what economists know ...
Increasing commercial pressure on land may lead to land concentration in developing countries, especially in the context of complex systems of property rights. In this article we review through meta-analysis (MA) the econometric findings of the literature estimating the nexus between land inequality and economic growth.
Land Economics is defined as the study of trade-offs between food production and biodiversity conservation at landscape and ecoregion scales, considering factors such as environmental heterogeneity, agricultural suitability, economic influences, and environmental services to balance agriculture and biodiversity conservation while addressing ...
4 kwi 2019 · Even though efficacious land distribution allows societies to transition from poverty to a human capital-based developed economy, ongoing issues related to property rights, inequality, and the political economy of land distribution are unavoidable.
What do economists know about land-and how do they know? This chapter introduces the Oxford Handbook of Land Economics, arguing that land is a theme that integrates several fields of economics, including natural resource economics, environmental economics, regional science, and urban economics.
22 lip 2014 · What do economists know about land—and how do they know? This handbook describes the latest developments in the economics fields examining land, including natural resource economics, environmental economics, regional science, and urban economics.
