保障我国农民土地收益的制度分析

近年来，由于制度安排的缺陷，我国农地大量转非，农民利益受到损害，导致大量失地农民出现，危及粮食安全和社会稳定。当前，尽管中央对土地进行了严格管理，但是只是临时政策性的措施。要从根本上解决这些问题，必须从制度创新上寻求可行的途径。为此，本文通过对农民土地利益损失的制度原因分析，并对农地制度固化和创新的风险以及几种可供选择的制度创新方案比较后，认为渐进式的制度改革是符合我国的现实选择。     

区域产业结构调整与土地可持续利用关系研究

文章通过实证分析方式阐述了区域经济发展与土地利用相互关系，着重分析了我国非农产业发展的不同阶段耕地占用状况的变化，在此基础上，进一步分析了区域经济系统产业结构升级与用地结构的变迁关系，尤其是“十五”期间我国产业结构的进一步升级，将在一定程度上进一步带动农业用地的非农化，同时还可能会造成土地污染问题，据此作者认为我国产业经济的可持续发展必须以土地资源可持续利用为基础，并提出了推进我国可持续发展的战略实施的土地资源可持续利用政策体系。     

推进循环经济发展促进土地可持续利用

循环经济是一种新型的生态经济。发展循环经济对于土地的可持续利用的意义也很重大。本文通过对循环经济的概念和发展情况的阐述．分析了目前我国发展循环经济所面临的问题，提出了发展我国循环经济的对策和措施。     

我国固定资产投资宏观效益分析

固定资产投资的直接目的是增加固定资产 ,应考察投资和增加固定资产的关系 ,其宏观指标为固定资产交付使用率和项目建成投产率 ;固定资产投资的最终目的是促进经济增长 ,增加国民收入 ,应考察投资和增加国民收入的关系 ,其宏观指标为固定资产投资效益系数或投资系数。我国固定资产交付使用率“七五”时期比“六五”末不断提高 ,“八五”较为平稳 ,“九五”开始回升。我国固定资产投资效益系数“六五”以来较为平稳 ,“八五”较高 ,“九五”下滑幅度较大。应采取多种措施 ,不断提高投资效益。     

浅议建立农地使用权流转机制

农村经济发展要求建立起土地使用权流转机制 ,促进土地合理流转和集中。当前已经有一些地方的农村自发进行了土地使用权流转的尝试。本文将在分析总结现有经验的基础上 ,提出建立和完善土地流转机制的思路 ,并探讨了与土地流转机制相关的一些问题。     

Buyer-Type Effects in Conservation and Preservation Property Values

Properties can be bought by government agencies, land trusts, or private entities for conservation and preservation purposes, such as farmland preservation, wildlife refuges, other conservation, and cultural and historical preservation. There is variation in the dollars paid per acre across properties and across buyer type. An option value model based on future potential land uses is used to explain much of this variation. The data used in our analysis is sales transactions data for conservation and preservation purposes from throughout the United States. We find that much of the value of conservation properties is derived from future potential land uses, including housing, timber, recreation, and conservation. We confirm that public versus private buyers value options differently, which makes sense from a public good point of view, if markets are thin.     

Working Less and Bargain Hunting More: Macroimplications of Sales during Japan's Lost Decades

Standard New Keynesian models have often neglected temporary sales. In this study, we ask whether this treatment is appropriate. We use Japanese scanner data covering the last two decades and find a negative correlation between the frequency of sales and hours worked. We then construct a model that takes households' decisions regarding their allocation of time for work, leisure, and bargain hunting into account. We show that the decline in hours worked explains the rise in the frequency of sales. The real effect of monetary policy shocks weakens by around 40% due to temporary sales, but monetary policy still matters.     

Anthropogenic and topographic correlates of natural vegetation cover within agricultural landscape mosaics in Turkey

Natural vegetation enhances the value of agricultural landscapes for people and wildlife. However, the role of anthropogenic versus topographic factors in driving the extent of natural vegetation cover within agricultural lands at large spatial scales remains unexplored. I assessed the influence of anthropogenic and topographic variables on the extent of agricultural mosaics with high natural vegetation cover in the country of Turkey where a large extent of natural and semi-natural vegetation is maintained by traditional agriculture. GIS layers depicting human land use, elevation, slope, roads and population data were obtained and summarized at two spatial scales, within provinces and for 100 km² grid cells covering the country’s entire agricultural land area. Average farm size was also obtained at province level. Hierarchical Partitioning was conducted to determine the independent effect of anthropogenic and topographic variables on the variation in agriculture with high natural vegetation. Slope had the largest independent effect on the variation in the proportion of agricultural mosaic with high natural vegetation cover. The extent of agricultural and settlement area also explained much of the variation in natural vegetation across both grid cells and provinces. The proportion of natural vegetation increased as human population and road density decreased across grid cells and as average farm size decreased across provinces. These results suggest that while topography is the primary driver of natural vegetation cover within agricultural mosaics in Turkey, the pressures associated with urban development and agricultural industrialization may also influence the cultural and wildlife value of agricultural landscapes.     

Addressing the social landscape dimensions: The need for reconciling cross scale assessments for capturing Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES)

This special issue integrates eleven papers focussing on indicators able to convey the multiple expectations that society has concerning agricultural land. As scale issues have been so far overlooked within this research topic, a particular focus of this themed issue is to highlight the need for reconciling assessments across scales. The shared purpose of the contributions is to examine how the multiple societal expectations concerning agrarian landscapes might be incorporated into land use policy at different governance levels.A core set of these papers were presented in the symposium “Linking social indicators across scales”, to the European Congress of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) in September 2013 in Manchester, UK. This symposium was organized to create the time and space for a discussion on the issues of scale when capturing societal preferences concerning agrarian landscapes. While the landscape scale was specifically addressed by four papers, seven papers examined broader geographic units in addition to up-scaling and downscaling issues.     

Co-ordination of land exploitation,exploitable farmland reserves and national planning in China

Land exploitation, as an important strategy to mitigate farmland loss and stabilize grain production, has been adopted to compensate farmland loss due to rapid urbanization in China. Bounded by the limited capacity and obvious spatial variations of national farmland reserves, it is essential to arrange land exploitation activities timely and reasonably. In this study, we propose an indicator for the status of regional land exploitation, the Exploitation Degree, to facilitate an overview of land exploitation programs in China at both provincial and prefectural levels based on project data from 2006 to 2012. To further our understanding of the regional features of land exploitation activities, we employ the Lasso model to identify and quantitatively assess influencing factors on land exploitation. Our study shows that: (1) contemporary land exploitation practices in China are significantly inconsistent across exploitable farmland reserves. Some areas are greatly over-exploited and such irrational land exploitation has been persistent; (2) related national land plans designed to guide land exploitation efforts centered on resource-rich regions and critical areas do not function as intended. Therefore, we suggest that China⿿s land exploitation policy shall be improved by reconsidering the orientation of land exploitation policy, coordinating land exploitation activities with productivity improvements and eco-system protection, and enhancing the power and scope of the plans in controlling and guiding land resource management.