land-use decision

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In this paper, we explore the relationship between technology that affects the agricultural sector and deforestation by considering land-use decisions of rural households.
The section that follows describes the bioeconomic model, especially how it incorporates soil quality and degradation into land-use decisions.
Crop prices at harvest time are unknown when land-use decisions are made (input prices are observed at planting time).
The implication of this is that technical progress could have a substantial impact on the land-use decisions of risk-averse farmers.
Since landowners make cropping decisions, the fisheries sector is generally ignored in their land-use decisions.
The analysis focuses on how changes in agricultural prices influence land-use decisions and environmental indicators.
One central point is that it remains important to explore the role that power relationships assume in formulating land-use decisions and determining access to resources within wetland environments.
These farm households were clustered on the basis of characteristics exogenous to farmers' land-use decisions in the model - including soil type, distance to market, and time since initial land settlement.
Ultimately, land-use decisions should be based on providing the greatest need to the community, and ideally, regulatory and incentive systems will help in the valuation of community benefits.
This paper points out how endowment of natural capital - in the form of underlying soil quality - can affect land-use decisions and (especially) income as farmers trade off profitability and degradation.
The time has come to be clear about priorities and to guide land-use decisions accordingly.
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