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


This 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. The book will provide valuable guidance on how incentives and disincentives work to 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