Historical, environmental and socio-economic driving forces on land ownership fragmentation, the land consolidation effect and the project costs

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 571-582

  Sklenicka, P ^a   Hladik J ^b   Strelecek F ^c   Kottova B ^a   Lososova J ^c   Cihal L ^d   Salek M ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d Ministerstvo zemedelstvi   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Land consolidation; Land market; Land reform; Land use planning; Rural development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249152756     PISSN: 0139570X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/115/2009-agricecon     Document Type: Article

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