Landowner response to policies regulating land improvements in Finland: Lease or search for other options?
| Autor: | Kyösti Pietola, Sami Myyrä, Eija Pouta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Land use
Amenity Natural resource economics business.industry Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management Land management Forestry Management Monitoring Policy and Law Lease Agricultural land Land degradation Economics Landlord Land tenure business Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Land Use Policy. 29:367-376 |
| ISSN: | 0264-8377 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.08.001 |
| Popis: | Land improvements with long pay-back periods are often delayed on leased agricultural land. The delay in improvements has been found to result in land degradation, decreased land productivity and environmental problems. An important question is thus how landowners would respond to regulations and mandates concerning land improvements. Based on a Finnish landowner survey, we analysed landowner choices under certain land improvement regulations, using the currently dominant choice of leasing land for agricultural use as the benchmark. The results indicated that land leasing will continue to increase in the future, but if the landowner mandate to co-finance costly land improvements is increased, landowners are predicted to respond significantly to these mandates and search for other land management options. Three heterogeneous landowner groups were identified based on their land use choices. Current leasers and amenity owners, in particular, were sensitive to land improvement mandates, and would avoid compulsory investment expenses by selling or afforesting their land. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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