Modelling Economic Policy Reforms and Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries: Key Issues

2001 ◽  
pp. 351-376
Author(s):  
Marijke Kuiper ◽  
Nico Heerink ◽  
Herman van Keulen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Key Issues

Priority setting in agricultural land-use types for sustainable development

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 136-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nevin Akpinar ◽  
Ilkden Talay ◽  
Sema Gun
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
Multicriteria Methods

AbstractEven in developing countries that are faced with ecological and socio-economic problems, agricultural areas are constrained by land-use laws to be developed in particular ways. This being the case, the major issues in these areas are a better quality of life and sustainable use of the limited resources. This necessitates planning for sustainable development and evaluating various qualitative and quantitative data in a single framework. Multicriteria or multipurpose decision analysis methods are appropriate for this purpose. Using these methods, physical, economical and social data, as well as planning goals, can be combined and evaluated in the context of sustainable development. These multicriteria methods have been documented widely in a variety of problem areas, but two multicriteria methods, namely AHP (analytic hierarchy process) and ELECTRE II (elimination and choice translating reality), have not been used extensively in agricultural land-use decisions in developing countries. However, in situations where decision-making criteria are non-commensurable, non-comparable or non-countable, and when it is necessary to evaluate the criteria together, as in agricultural land-use decisions, AHP and ELECTRE II methods are warranted. This study reviews these methods briefly and suggests their potential application in the agricultural land-use decision process in a developing country. For this purpose, these methods were sampled in Ziyaret Stream Basin in Adiyaman, which is part of the Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi (GAP) (South-eastern Anatolian Project) in the Republic of Turkey. The area could be characterized by its rural and agricultural features, although it is under the pressure of Adiyaman urban development. This study shows that both AHP and ELECTRE II methods can be applied successfully for the determination of agricultural land-use priorities, which are an essential part of the quality of life and of sustainable land-use studies.

Policy reforms, rice production and sustainable land use in China: A macro–micro analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 784-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Heerink ◽  
Futian Qu ◽  
Marijke Kuiper ◽  
Xiaoping Shi ◽  
Shuhao Tan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Micro Analysis

scholarly journals Bus Rapid Transit System: A Study of Sustainable Land-Use Transformation, Urban Density and Economic Impacts

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aamir Basheer ◽  
Luuk Boelens ◽  
Rob van der Bijl
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Bus Rapid Transit ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Urban Density ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Land Use Transformation

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has shown significant growth in recent years, particularly in developing countries because of its cost-effectiveness. However, empirical evidence on land-use and economic impacts of BRT is limited. This study measures the sustainable land-use transformation, urban density, and economic impact witnessed after the development of BRT. Spatial analysis shows that BRT has the potential to simulate land-use transformation, however, the extent of transformation is context-dependent. Population density has increased from 268 persons/acre to 299 persons/acre. Besides land-use transformations, inward investments and extension of the labor market were also evident in areas served by BRT. The amount almost equal to US $140 million of inward investment was detected after implementation of BRT, which ultimately brought around 800 new employees from remote areas. An efficient land-use policy, streamlining these land-use transformations, and inward investments, can benefit from developing compact and sustainable neighborhoods. This study will help in the performance evaluation of BRT systems in developing countries for sustainable development.

scholarly journals Impact of Land Certification on Sustainable Land Use Practices: Case of Gozamin District, Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelech Kidie Mengesha ◽  
Reinfried Mansberger ◽  
Doris Damyanovic ◽  
Gernot Stoeglehner
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Tree Plantation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Land Use Practices

Agroforestry is attracting considerable attention in Ethiopia because of its potential for sustainable land use practices. As land tenure insecurity is a major limiting factor for sustainable land use practices in Ethiopia and developing countries in general, the Ethiopian government launched a rural land certification program to secure land tenure. There are limited empirical studies about the impacts of land certification on sustainable land use practices. To fill this knowledge gap, this study was outlined for an area in the Ethiopian Gozamen district. It investigates the impact of land certification on sustainable land use practices and is focused on factors affecting tree plantation based on a household survey, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and field observations. The results of the study showed that the majority of the respondents practiced sustainable land use practices after their land was certified. Therefore, land certification has a great contribution on sustainable land use practices. In addition, age, consultancy, land size, education, and nurseries proved as significant factors for tree plantation. As access to land is a basic socio-economic precondition for sustainable agriculture and forestry in developing countries, tenure security is a key pathway for the development of the poor and it contributes essentially to achieve sustainable development goals.

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