Books in the Schriften Zur Internationalen entwicklungs- Und Umweltforschung series

Aims to analyse the impact of two different land reform strategies on rural poverty in CIS countries, particularly in Georgia and Moldova. This study is based on household data, which were collected during household surveys in Georgia and Moldova in 2007 and 2008.

This book presents outcome of research on the farmers' preferences for different agricultural land use options and agri-environmental attributes related to them in the northern part of Tajikistan. The study was carried out within the DAAD-funded CLINCA (Climate Change Network for Central Asia) project.

This book presents the economic analysis of climate change impacts on agriculture in Pakistan. Both Standard and Structural Ricardian Models are applied for identifying climate change impacts on farm incomes, depicting the spatial patterns and seasonality of the impacts, and understanding the future adaptation behavior of farmers in the crop sector.

The book studies rural poverty in Kyrgyzstan. A cross-section random sample of 297 households allows to measure poverty and frontier production efficiency of a sample using DEA and SFA methods. The results demonstrate the existence and statistical significance of the poverty-efficiency linkage. The endogeneity problem is resolved with TSLS methods.

Geoparks as nature conservation category in Iran have a good potential of growth. Especially for the domestic tourism they are an important instrument. Landscape conservation is another overall target.