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LandFacilitating land transfers and contract standardization is crucial for optimizing farmland use and achieving high-quality agricultural development following the round of confirmation, registration, and certification of contracted rural land management ...
Dongying Xie, Mengbo Xu
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A place to belong: creating an urban, Indian, women-led land trust in the San Francisco Bay Area
Ecology and Society, 2023 When grounded in Indigenous epistemologies, land trust structures provide an effective, inclusive vehicle to enact community and landscape care in the face of colonial disruptions.
Beth R. Middleton Manning +6 more
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Ecology and Society, 2022 Grazing lands supporting livestock production and nature conservation exemplify land sharing conservation. In California, livestock producers own or manage a large portion of land with the highest biodiversity ecosystems.
Sheila J. Barry
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Trust evolution, institutional constraints, and land trusteeship decisions among Chinese farmers
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2023 Land trusteeship involves farmers entrusting the farming and managing of their land to trustees, who manage the land on their behalf in exchange for a commission fee. Land trusteeship has been an important approach to bridging the gap between smallholder
Qi Li, Menghui Gao
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People and Nature, 2023 Conservation is increasingly recognized and funded on private lands. Making conservation last despite turnover in people requires maintaining social relationships.
Adena R. Rissman +3 more
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Spatiotemporal variation in costs of managing protected areas
Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 Funding for protected areas is limited and recurrent costs associated with managing these sites must be considered in planning their acquisition. However, most conservation planning studies either ignore management costs or use snapshot estimates, even ...
Diane Le Bouille +2 more
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Collective Action for the Market-Based Reform of Land Element in China: The Role of Trust
Land, 2022 The market entry of collectively-owned operating construction land (COCL) is an important policy of the Chinese government to promote the flow of rural land elements in the market. Describ-ing, characterizing, and understanding collective action for COCL
Lin Zhou, Walter Timo de Vries
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Land Trusts in Florida: A Brief Guide to Land Trusts for Protecting Land in your Community
EDIS, 2017 A land trust is a private nonprofit organization that owns and manages land to protect its natural, economic, and cultural value. This document provides an overview of the role that land trusts plan in conservation, and how landowners may contact or ...
Benjamin North +1 more
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Circulation Expectations, Farmer Trust, and Farmers’ Contract Choice Behavior
Land, 2023 This study investigates the influence of expectations and trust on farmers’ decisions regarding contractual choices in land transfer. The dataset used for analysis consists of 1101 households in a province in western China.
Zhuo Wenjun
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Perceived inclusivity and trust in protected area management decisions among stakeholders in Alaska
People and Nature, 2022 The success of conservation initiatives often depends on the inclusion of diverse stakeholder interests in the decision‐making process. Yet, there is a paucity of empirical knowledge concerning the factors that explain why stakeholders do—or do not ...
Devin J. Goodson +4 more
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