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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"land protection"”.
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Windfalls for Wilderness: Land Protection and Land Value in the Green Mountains
Land is a composite good, the price of which varies with its characteristics, including proximity to amenities. Analysis of data from sales of land near Green Mountain National Forest wilderness areas in a hedonic price model reveals a positive relationship between proximity to protected wilderness …
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Agricultural land protection and growth management: a case study of Story County, Iowa
… examines the performance of agricultural land protection and growth management tools (primarily zoning regulations) used by Story County, Iowa, in implementing the policies of its County Development Plan (CDP). Farmland conversion and zoning permit activity from 1983 - 1998 were mapped and …
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Governance Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Land Guards and Land Protection in Ghana
<p>Land management policy in many developing nations has been riddled with conflict because of competing land tenure systems. Having transitioned through customary tenure systems to bureaucratic property rights regimes without a complete shift from the former, Ghana’s land management system, over …
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Assessing land conservation strategies : the case of the Florida Everglades
… will inundate over 20% of existing conservation lands. Species will be dislocated and migrate to new land. Simultaneously, more than 500,000 people are moving to the region annually. The new populations are subdividing and developing rural lands. By 2100, it is estimated that over 60% of rural …
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Heritage land in the United States: continuity and conflict
… thesis sets out to explain the establishment and protection of United States federal heritage land, through some 200 years of conflict and change. It uses concepts like preservation, conservation and exploitation. As the US has grown in area and population, pressures on land and natural resources …
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The Effects of Conservation Easements on Land Values
… easement has become a popular tool for land protection in the past few decades. Whether this development restriction will necessarily decrease the land value is an empirical question. This study employs a hedonic pricing approach to test empirically the effects of conservation easements …
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Landscape protection and urban development setbacks : establishing policy recommendations for the city of Red Deer
… within the context of ecological planning and protection. Concepts of ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity protection, and enhanced water quality were reviewed with research on riparian management, landscape level planning, and ecological protection to provide a lens for reviewing Red …
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The economic consequences of private lands conservation using conservation easements in Colorado
… to preserve natural amenities and compensate landowners for the public goods they provide. From the Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program to the Grassland Reserve Program, Colorado conserves 2.4 million acres of land (Colorado Natural Heritage Program and the Geospatial Centroid, 2018) This …
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Evaluating Strategies to Protect Open Space and Slow Sprawl in the Philadelphia Region
… Counties as a case study, examining historical land use and socioeconomic data to demonstrate the negative effects that urban sprawl has on regional quality of life and the natural and built environment. The paper shows that open space conservation initiatives sponsored by governing bodies and …
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Essays in Environmental Economics
… carbon emissions-intensive deforestation on land with low agricultural yields. I incorporate spatial cost differences, agricultural trade, and cross-country non-agricultural productivity in a general equilibrium trade model to estimate how they contribute to misallocation. Against a benchmark …
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From camera traps to conservation: biodiversity and mammal functional diversity in the Langkloof Corridor, Eastern Cape province, South Africa
… (GBF) calls for protecting 30% of the planet’s land and sea by 2030. Achieving this ambitious target requires not only increasing protected area extent but also safeguarding ecological connectivity across fragmented, human-modified landscapes. In South Africa, where roughly 80% of …
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Strategic Conservation Planning for High Knob, Virginia: A GIS Decision Support Approach
… spatial distribution of those values across a landscape of concern. The goal of this study was to help conservation organizations improve decision making for implementation of prioritization-based strategies for land protection using a GIS-based, multi-criteria decision support system …
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Anthropogenic effects on site use and temporal patterns of terrestrial mammals in Harenna Forest, Ethiopia
… communities. Human population pressure, weak land protection policies, and uncertain land tenure rights have led to increases in farmland for subsistence and coffee farming, livestock grazing, and reduction of afro-alpine, shrubland and grassland habitats. Given these challenges, I used 48 …
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An Assessment of the Quality of Agricultural Best Management Practices in the James River Basin of Virginia
… the practice and its upkeep is paid for by the landowner or farm operator. Cost-share practices are required to comply with state standards, while non cost-share practices are not subject to any standards. For this study, BMP quality is defined as the adherence to design, site selection, …