Incentives in Soil Conservation
From Theory to Practice
Editors:
David Sanders, Paul Huszar, Samran Sombatpanit, and Thomas Enters
ISBN 978-1-57808-061-8; 1999; 402 Pages, pb; US $ 44.70      Buy Now

The book examines the use of incentives and disincentives in soil conservation programs; looks at the theory behind their use; and how they have worked in practice. Intended for planners, policy makers, and all involved in designing and implementing soil conservation programs.

“This book constitutes a valuable guidance to planners, policy makers, and all those involved in designing and implementing soil conservation programmes, and land use planning in general.”

Contents:
. Introduction

Part 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Consideration
. Where incentives fit in soil conservation programmes
. Incentives as policy instruments-Key concepts and definitions
. Economic analysis of incentives for soil conservation
. Justification for using soil conservation incentives
. Soil Conservation as incentive enough-Experience from Southern Brazil and Argentina on identifying sustainable practices
. Tree management and household strategies in a changing rural economy-Beyond the use of direct incentive
. Evaluating incentive systems for soil and water conservation on the basis of case studies in four countries

Part 2: National and Regional Programmes
. Land use change in upland Java-Incentives and opportunities
. Incentives for soil conservation in Iceland
. Inadequacies of voluntary soil and water conservation incentives threaten adoption of regulatory approaches
. Soil conservation incentives in the 1985-1996 U.S. Farm-Bills
. Soil conservation incentives in New South Wales, Australia
. Funding to community Landcare groups in Western Australia - A powerful "new generation" of soil conservation incentives
. Towards better soil conservation through incentives in resource-poor regions--A case study of the Chinese Loess Plateau
. The role of incentives in soil and water conservation in Kenya

Part 3: Case Studies and Projects
. Use of direct incentives and profitablity of soil and water conservation in Eastern and Southern Africa
. Incentives for sustainable land management in peasant agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands
. Effects of watershed project subsidies on soil and water conservation investments in India's semi-arid tropics
. Use and success of incentives for promoting Sloping Agricultral Land Technology (SALT) in the Philippines
. Food-for-work and rainwater harvesting--Experience from Turkana District, Kenya in the 1980s
. Incentives for agroforestry development--Experience in Central America and the Caribbean