Rural Land Use and Land Tenure in New Zealand
| dc.creator | Timar, Levente | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T14:06:36Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:38:55Z | |
| dc.description | Private land-use decisions are critical for a broad spectrum of environmental and social outcomes, ranging from water quality and climate change to rural income distribution. I use a large dataset of the land-use decisions of New Zealand landowners to estimate a cross-sectional multinomial logit model of land use. In this model, the optimal land-use choice depends on geophysical attributes of the land, the cost of access to markets, and on land tenure (Māori freehold title versus general freehold title). I employ the estimated relationship in a counterfactual scenario to assess the overall impact of Māori tenure on the willingness of landowners to supply land for the four most important rural uses in the country: dairying; sheep or beef farming; plantation forestry; and an economically unproductive use, scrub. This allows me to conjecture about the environmental implications of New Zealand’s land-tenure system. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.189564 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/189564/files/11_13.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/189564 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/601213 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/189564 | |
| dc.title | Rural Land Use and Land Tenure in New Zealand | |
| dc.type | Text |