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    Monitor Soil Degradation or Triage for Soil Security? An Australian Challenge

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2015
    Australia
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    land degradation

    The Australian National Soil Research, Development and Extension Strategy identifies soil security as a foundation for the current and future productivity and profitability of Australian agriculture. Current agricultural production is attenuated by soil degradation. Future production is highly dependent on the condition of Australian soils. Soil degradation in Australia is dominated in its areal extent by soil erosion. We reiterate the use of soil erosion as a reliable indicator of soil condition/quality and a practical measure of soil degradation.

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    Forest Based Industry and Forest Land Management in India

    Reports & Research
    January, 2014
    Australia, Belgium, Canada, India, British Indian Ocean Territory, United States of America
    Forest Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    forest land
    land
    land management

    The paper highlights that land degradation in India has been approaching a crisis level in spite of repeated emphasis on wasteland development and existence of apex level organisations for that purpose. One reason has been the policy emphasis on ownership and control rather than appropriate management of the land. It is set in the context of i) the 1988 Forest Policy, and ii) the recent amends to the Forest Conservation Act.

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    Economic sustainability of organic farms in 2010-2013

    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    Australia, France, Poland, United States of America
    Land & Investments
    land productivity

    In line with the “Condition of organic farming in Poland. The report 2013- -2014”, issued by the Main Inspectorate of the Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (www.ijhar-s.gov.pl), production solely under the organic system was carried out, at that time, by 67% and 60% of organic farms, respectively. The remaining share are entities producing under both organic and conventional methods. According to research, held under the Polish FADN, these farms are highly varied in organisational, production and economic terms.

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    Determinants of Agricultural Investment: An Application to Rural China

    Reports & Research
    January, 2014
    Australia, China, Russia, United States of America
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    land tenure
    land tenure
    land tenure systems

    China, a country developing at unprecedented levels, has experienced drastic changes throughout its recent economic history. Of primary interest is the continuing development and improvement of the rural agricultural sector, with even the slightest changes in this sector having dramatic ripple effects on rural economies. Estimates of rural households involved in agricultural production range from 65 to 70 percent (de Brauw & Rozelle, 2008; Rozelle, Taylor, & de Brauw, 1999).

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    Bus stop, property price and land value tax: A multilevel hedonic analysis with quantile calibration

    Land Use Policy Volume 42

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2015
    Australia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    land tax
    land use
    property
    research

    Based on a multilevel and quantile hedonic analysis regarding the local public bus system and the prices of residential properties in Cardiff, Wales, we find strong evidence to support two research hypotheses: (a) the number of bus stops within walking distance (300–1500m) to a property is positively associated with the property's observed sale price, and (b) properties of higher market prices, compared with their cheaper counterparts, tend to benefit more from spatial proximity to the bus stop locations.

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    Trade-offs between high class land and development: Recent and future pressures on Auckland's valuable soil resources

    Land Use Policy Volume 39

    Peer-reviewed publication
    July, 2014
    New Zealand
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Urban Tenure
    development
    environment
    land use
    research
    sustainable land management
    urbanization

    Sustainable land management is essential to meeting the global challenge of securing soil and water resources that can support an ever increasing population. In Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, population growth is forecast to increase from 1.5 to 2.5 million by 2040 which will put immense pressure on the region's soil resources.

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    Assessment of spatial data infrastructures

    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2014
    South Africa, India, China, Brazil, Australia
    Urban Tenure
    assessment
    land
    urban planning

    A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is an evolving concept, essentially consisting of policies, institutional arrangements, Geographical Information Systems (GISs), data bases, networks, Web services and portals to facilitate and coordinate the availability, exchange and sharing of geospatial data and services between stakeholders from different levels.

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