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Interdependence, Rules, and Rural Development
Author(s) -
Kelsey Timothy W.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/0017-4815.00088
Subject(s) - property rights , property (philosophy) , agriculture , land use , conflict resolution , land tenure , natural resource economics , focus (optics) , business , rural development , public economics , economics , economic system , microeconomics , geography , political science , law , ecology , philosophy , physics , archaeology , epistemology , optics , biology
This paper explores land use conflicts between non‐farm neighbors and farmers to illustrate the usefulness of the concepts of interdependence, rules, and property rights when doing rural development. Recognizing interdependence and its implications helps economic analysis focus on and understand the types of rules and institutions having the most influence on economic behavior, and thus identify policy alternatives. The resolution of land uses conflicts, for example, unavoidably changes the bundle of rights associated with land, andinfluences who can impose costs of whom; it makes a difference if a large farm has the right to produce odors, flies, or noise that reduces their neighbors' abilities to enjoy theneighbors' own land, or if instead, neighbors have the right to use their property without experiencing farm‐produced odors, flies or noise the farm may be unable to use its own land for agriculture without being inconvenienced.