@techreport{Wasilewski2003Institutional,
abstract = {This paper seeks to contribute to the development of institutional options for the management
of public goods in Central and Eastern Europe. It assesses the potential of different
governance structures, including administrative hierarchies, market approaches,
and efforts at local non-market co-ordination. The paper examines the management of
public goods in Central and Eastern Europe through a study of open space management
and urban sprawl in a semi-urban county near Warsaw, Poland. The protection of open
space poses significant challenges to semi-urban land management, as its benefits cannot
be captured by individual entities and accrue as much to urban residents as to local
people. The concrete institutional options investigated comprehend the use of land registers
for monitoring land conversion, establishment of land trusts in part financed by a
development gains tax, and technical and organisational support for local environmental
organisations. The evaluation of options builds on an analysis of causes underlying
rapid land conversion in the past decade. The causal analysis demonstrates that privatisation
and decentralisation have evoked the radical changes in land use. The demand for
housing land motivated farmers to sell semi-urban land, as the state could not enforce its
legal oversight over land use. Land conversion was driven by local alliances of farmers
eager to "cash in" on their newly acquired rights of alienation, a broader rural society
primarily interested in economic development, and local authorities lured by increasing
tax revenues.},
author = {Adam Wasilewski and Thomas Sikor},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330; Naturschutz; Bodennutzung; Bauland; Polen},
language = {eng},
number = {18},
title = {Institutional options for the protection of open space : evidence from Poland},
type = {CEESA discussion paper / Humboldt-Universit\"{a}t Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/22299},
year = {2003}
}
