Is a sustainable land-use policy in Germany possible?: insights from an analysis applying the concept of stocks
Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analyse driving forces for land-use conversion and to assess, whether the German political "30- hectares-goal" is feasible given the current institutional setting. In this paper major driving forces for l...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Heidelberg
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
July 30, 2009
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| Ausgabe: | This version: July 30, 2009 |
| Schriftenreihe: | Discussion paper series / Universität Heidelberg, Department of Economics
no. 484 |
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Discussion paper series (no. 484)
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| Online-Zugang: | Resolving-System, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127303 Verlag, Volltext: http://www.awi.uni-heidelberg.de/with2/Discussion%20papers/papers/dp484.pdf |
| Verfasserangaben: | Beate Fischer; Frank Jöst; Bernd Klauer; Johannes Schiller |
| Zusammenfassung: | Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analyse driving forces for land-use conversion and to assess, whether the German political "30- hectares-goal" is feasible given the current institutional setting. In this paper major driving forces for land-use conversion are identified and underlying stocks and persistent institutional structures as well as their dynamics are investigated. It will be shown that meeting the 30- hectares-goal is unlikely. We further argue that due to persistent stocks and institutional structures land-use conversion from agricultural into urbanised land takes place on smaller time scales than its reconversion. We conclude that demographic change and regional migration processes may result in further land-use conversion even with declining population. Economic structural change as well as an increasing traffic volume will likewise contribute to further land-use conversion. |
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