The Farmland Rental Paradox: Extreme land ownership fragmentation as a new form of land degradation

Land Use Policy

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 587-593

  Sklenicka, Petr ^a   Janovska, Vratislava ^a   Salek, Miroslav ^a   Vlasak, Josef ^a   Molnarova, Kristina ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cadastral parcel; Land market; Land ownership fragmentation; LPIS; Production block; Sustainable land use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND MARKET; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDOWNERSHIP; RENTAL SECTOR; SUSTAINABILITY;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 84893491314     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.01.006     Document Type: Article

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