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Estimating the Drivers of Rural Land Use Change in New Zealand
Abstract
We present a new econometric methodology for estimating the responses of multiple land uses to economic driving forces at a Territorial Authority level. The model is based on a microeconomic model of landowner decision-making scaled to a wider spatial scale and is loosely based on an AIDS model framework. The model uses a publicly available data set that Motu has complied from a variety of sources including Agricultural Censii and Surveys, population census, Land Cover Database (LCDB) and agricultural and productivity indices produced by Landcare Research for the project. This work builds on earlier Motu work estimated at a national level.
Citation
Kerr, Suzi; Joanna Hendy, Kelly Lock and Yun Liang. 2007. "Estimating the Drivers of Rural Land Use Change in New Zealand," Paper prepared for the AARES Conference, February 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand.
Motu code: MEL0272
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