Prices, land tenure institutions, and geography: A matching analysis of farmland abandonment in post-socialist eastern Europe

Land Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 425-443

  Alix Garcia, Jennifer ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^b,c   Radeloff, Volker C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND REFORM; LAND TENURE; LIBERALIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TENURE SYSTEM;

POLAND; SLOVAKIA; UKRAINE;

EID: 84867380839     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.88.3.425     Document Type: Article

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