Department of Land Economy

Centre for Law & Economics for Environment and Development

Research Projects

Selected Academic Publications

C-LEED research is disseminated in academic journals and books as well as in policy documents.

2009
Mullan, K, Kontoleon, A, Swanson, T M and Zhang, S 'An evaluation of the impact of the Natural Forest Protection Programme on Rural Household Livelihoods.' Environmental Management (forthcoming, 2009). [download pdf]
Grosjean, P and Kontoleon, A 'How sustainability are sustainable development programmes?' World Development 37(1): 268-85, January 2009. [online link]
2008
Mullan, K, Grosjean, P and Kontoleon, A Land Tenure Arrangements and Rural-Urban Migration in China, Land Economy Working Paper 37.2008 [download pdf]
Groom, B and Palmer, C Direct vs Indirect Payments for Environmental Services: The Role of Relaxing Market Constraints, Land Economy Working Paper 36.2008 [download pdf]
Groom, B, Grosjean, P, Kontoleon, A, Swanson, T M and Zhang, S Relaxing Rural Constraints: a 'Win-Win' Policy for Poverty and Environment in China? Land Economy Working Paper 30.2008 [download pdf]
Ishihara, H and Pascual, U Social Capital and Collective Action in Environmental Governance Revisited, Land Economy Working Paper 38.2008 [download pdf]

2006
Igliori, D and Goeschl, T ‘Property Rights for Biodiversity Conservation and Development: An Analysis of Extractive Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon.’ Development and Change 37(2): 427-51, June 2006.
Pascual, U and Barbier, E B ‘Deprived land-use intensification in shifting cultivation: the population pressure hypothesis revisited.’ Agricultural Economics 34(2): 155-65, March 2006.
Rodríguez, L C, Pascual, U and Niemeyer, H M ‘Local identification and valuation of ecosystem goods and services from Opuntia scrublands of Ayacucho, Peru.’ Ecological Economics 57(1): 30-44, April 2006.

2005
Gatti, R, Groom, B and Swanson, T M ‘The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem’. Cambridge University Working paper. Revise and Resubmit to the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2005 [download pdf]
Groom, B, Liu, X, Swanson, T M and Zhang, S Equity versus Efficiency? The impact of Increasing Block Tariffs for residential water in Beijing. Working Paper, 2005.
Groom, B, Liu, Z and Swanson,T M Resource Pricing an Poverty Alleviation: The case of Block Tariffs for Water in Beijing, Working Paper, 2005 [download pdf]
Kontoleon, A and Swanson, T M ‘Conflicts in Conservation: Aggregating Total Economic.’ Chapter in Koundouris, P (ed) Econometrics Informing Natural Resource Management. Edward Elgar, 2005.
Pascual, U ‘Land-use intensification potential in slash-and-burn farming through improvements in technical efficiency’. Ecological Economics 52(4): 497-511, March 2005.
2004
Igliori, D and Goeschl, T 'Reconciling Conservation and Development: A Dynamic Hotelling Model of Extractive Reserves.' Land Economics, 80(3): 340-54, August 2004.

2003
Groom, B and Swanson, T M 'Missing Markets and Redundant Reservoirs.' Environmental and Resource Economics 26(1): 125-44, 2003.
Kontoleon, A and Swanson, T M 'The WTP for Property Rights for the Giant Panda: Can a Charismatic Species be an Instrument for Nature Conservation?’ Land Economics 79(4): 483-99, November 2003.
Weinhold, D with Andersen, L E, Granger, C W J and Reis, E J The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
2002
Swanson, T 'The Law and Economics of Environmental Policy.' Research in Law and Economics, 2002.
Swanson, T (ed) Economics of Managing Biotechnologies. Kluwer, 2002.
Swanson, T (ed) Managing the Impacts of Biotechnologies in Developing Countries. Edward Elgar, 2002.
Swanson, T Biotechnology, agriculture and the developing world: The distributional implications of technological change. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass, 2002.
Selected Policy Documents
Zhang, S, et al. Assessing the Impacts of the Natural Forest Protection Programme on Local Community Welfare, Report to the CCICED, 2006 [download pdf]
Zhang, S, et al. Assessing the Impacts of the Sloping Land Conversion Programme on Local Community Welfare, Report to the CCICED, 2006 [download pdf]
Birol, E, Kontoleon, A and Smale, M Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Methods to Assess The Private Value Of Agrobiodiversity in Hungarian Home Gardens, IFPRI - EPTD Working Paper, 2006 [download pdf]
Swanson, T, Qiwen, W, Kontoleon, A, Xuejun, Q and Tao, Y The Economics of Panda Reserve Management, Aileen International Press, Maryland USA, 2001 [download pdf]

Last updated 1 May, 2012