Books
- ethiopia | Agriculture Impact of Kinship and Tenure Insecurity on Land productivity and input use in Ethiopia This chapter of the book assess the output levels and fertiliser input levels of kin and non-kin sharecropped tenants’ plots, using the sharecropping tenants’ owner-operated land as counterfactual. Kassie, M., and T.S. Holden. "Impact of Kinship and Tenure Insecurity on Land Productivity and Input Use in Ethiopia. Forthcoming, in The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa: Assessing the Impacts of Poverty and Efficiency, edited by S.T. Holden, K. Otsuka and F. Place. RFF Press.
- central america | Forestry Estimating Spatial Interactions in Deforestation Decisions As part of the book Frontiers of Biodiversity Economics, Cambridge University Press, this chapter describes a model of interactions in the context of deforestation, based on an equilibrium in beliefs about the neighbours’ actions, and applies the model to data of two regions within Costa Rica. Robalino, J., A. Pfaff, and A. Sánchez. 2007. "Estimating Spatial Interactions in Deforestation Decisions". Forthcoming, In Biodiversity Economics: Principles, Methods and Applications, edited by A. Kantolean, U. Pascual, and T. Swanson. Cambridge University Press.
- china | Forestry From Central Planned Economy to Vigorous Rural Enterprise: China This is a book chapter in Plantations, Privatization, Poverty and Power: Changing Ownership and Management of State Forests, edited by M. Garforth and J. Mayers. Earthscan: London. Xu, J., and W.F. Hyde. 2005. "From Central Planned Economy to Vigorous Rural Enterprise: China". In Plantations, Privatization, Poverty and Power: Changing Ownership and Management of State Forests, edited by M.Garforth and J.Mayers. Earthscan: London.
- central america | Forestry An Integrated Approach to Forest Ecosystem Services This chapter discusses the use of PES schemes as a suitable market-based instrument to achieve sustainable use and management of ecosystems regarded as important, due to their contribution to human welfare in its many expressions. Campos, J.J., F. Alpízar, B. Louman, and J. Parrotta. 2005. "An Integrated Approach to Forest Ecosystem Services". Forests in the Global Balance, Changing Paradigms, IUFRO World Series, Volume 17, Helsinki, pp 97-116.