Sustainable Land-Use Pathway Ranking and Selection
Department of Applied Economics and Marketing, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Whitenights, P.O. Box 217, Reading Berkshire RG6 6AH, UK
Sustainability 2020, 12(19), 7881; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197881
Received: 1 August 2020 / Revised: 25 August 2020 / Accepted: 1 September 2020 / Published: 23 September 2020
(This article belongs to the Collection Designing More Diverse and Resilient Food Systems for the Future)
The desire for refining status quo cost–benefit protocols to fully encompass econometric model uncertainty motivates the search for improved technology. Availability of unique Ethiopian highlands milk-market livestock data provides an ideal laboratory for investigation of alternative land-use pathway designs. In these contexts, we present novel methodology for ranking and selecting sustainable ‘land-use pathways,’ arguing that the methodology is central to sustainable-land-use-policy prescriptions, providing essential innovation to assessments hitherto devoid of probabilistic foundation. Demonstrating routine implementation of Markov-Chain, Monte-Carlo procedure, ranking-and-selection enactment is widely disseminable and potentially valuable to land-use policy prescription. Application to a sample of Ethiopian-highlands, land-dependent households highlights empirical gains compared to conventional methodology. Applications and extensions that profit future land-use sustainability within the Ethiopian highlands and, also, more generally, are discussed.
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Keywords:
sustainable-land-use pathway ranking-and-selection; Markov-chain Monte-Carlo methodology; Ethiopian-highlands-land-dependent case study
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Chicago/Turabian StyleHolloway, Garth J. 2020. "Sustainable Land-Use Pathway Ranking and Selection" Sustainability 12, no. 19: 7881. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197881
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