Economic Policy and Sustainable Land Use Recent Advances in Quantitative Analysis for Developing Countries

About this book

Illustrates recent advances in modelling approaches at the plot, household, regional and national level.

Contents

From the contents: Economic Policy Reforms and Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries * Soil Degradation and Agricultural Production * Technical Options for Agricultural Development in the Ethiopian Highlands * Land Degradation as a Transformation Process in an Intertemporal Welfare Optimisation Framework * Population Pressure and Land Degradation in the Ethiopian Highlands * Imperfect Food Markets and Household Adoption of Soil Conservation Practices in the Dominican Republic Highlands * Soil Conservation and Imperfect Labour Markets in El Salvador * Assessing the Effects of Policy Measures on Household Welfare and Agro-Ecological Sustainability * Agricultural Prices and Land Degradation in Koutiala, Mali * Integrating Site-Specific Biophysical and Economic Models to Assess Trade-offs in Sustainable Land Use and Soil Quality * Effects of Land Degradation in a Diversified Economy with Local Staple and Labour Markets * Agricultural Production and Erosion in a Small Watershed in Honduras.The complete table of contents can be found on the Internet: http://www.springer.de

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