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LIST OF CONTENTS Volume 23 Number 1 January 2006 How to select instruments for the resolution of environmental conflicts? Heidi Wittmer, Felix Rauschmayer and Bernd Klauer Between consensus and compromise: acknowledging the negotiation dimension in participatory approaches Sybille van den Hove Consensus conference method in environmental issues: relevance and strengths Laura Zurita Conflicts over coastal protection in a National Park: Mediation and nego- tiated law making Meinfried Striegnitz Participatory processes for designing environmental policies Ortwin Renn Participatory decision making for sustainable development—the use of mediated modelling techniques Paula Antunes, Rui Santos and Nuno Videira Multicriteria evaluation and public participation: the case of UK energy policy Sigrid Stagl Participation in multi-criteria decision support for the resolution of a water allocation problem in the Spree River basin Frank Messner, Oliver Zwirner and Matthias Karkuschke ELECTRE Ill as a support for participatory decision-making on the locali- sation of waste-treatment plants M>:1a Franca Norese Social multi-criteria evaluation for urban sustainability policies Giuseppe Munda Analysis, participation and power: justification and closure in participatory multi-criteria analysis Andrew Stirling Evaluating deliberative and analytical methods for the resolution of environmental conflicts Felix Rauschmayer and Heidi Wittmer Volume 23 Number 2 April 2006 123 Building land markets Jude Wallace and lan Williamson 136 The changing and enduring ejido: a state and regional examination of Mexico's land tenure counter-reforms Nora Haenn Impact of forestland allocation on land use in a mountainous province of Vietnam Jean-Christophe Castella, Stanislas Boissau, Nguyen Hai Thanh and Paul Novosad The role of science in environmental policy: an examination of the local context Eilidh Johnston and Chris Soulsby Preservation versus development on Irish rivers: whitewater kayaking and hydro-power in Ireland Stephen Hynes and Nick Hanley Economic impacts on cotton production due to land degradation in the Gediz Delta, Turkey E. Atis Review of a land use planning programme through the soft systems methodology Uday Bhaskar Nidumolu, CAJM de Bie, Herman van Keulen, Andrew K Skidmore and Karl Harmsen Volume 23 Number 3 July 2006 Agricultural expansion and deforestation in lowland Bolivia: the import substitution versus the structural adjustment model Pablo Pacheco Analyzing spatial hierarchies in remotely sensed data: Insights from a multilevel model of tropical deforestation Colin Vance and Rich lovanna Patriarchy and women’s land rights in Botswana Faustin Kalabamu Land reform and livelihoods in South Africa's Northern Cape province Alastair Bradstock Valuation of communal area livestock benefits, rural livelihoods and related policy issues Delali B.K. Dovie, Charlie M. Shackleton and E..F Witkowski Land fragmentation and its driving forces in China Shuhao Tan, Nico Heerink and Futian Qu Land banking and Central Europe: future relevance, current initiatives, Western European past experience Terry van Dijk and D. Kopeva Reforming regional and local development policy in France Vaughan Rogers Direct payments versus interest rate subsidies to new farmers: a simulation analysis of alternative farm set-up policies in France Catherine Benjamin, Yves Le Roux and Euan Phimister Choice modelling to determine the significance of environmental amenity and production alternatives in the community value of peri-urban land: Sunshine Coast, Australia Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Mark D. Morrison and Russell K. Blamey Governing through institutionalised networks: the governance of Sydney Harbour Jeremy Dawkins and H.K. Colebatch Mass rapid rail development in South Africa's metropolitan core: Towards a new urban form? Ronnie Donaldson ATOD planning model to review the regulation of allowable development densities around subway stations JJ Lin and C.C. Gau Volume 23 Number 4 October 2006 Regular papers Land-use change: Impacts of climate variations and policies among small-scale farmers in the Loess Plateau, China Madelene Ostwald and Deliang Chen Cultivated land conversion and potential agricultural productivity in China Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and Emi Uchida The role of planning in achieving indigenous land justice and community goals Marcus B. Lane Land regularization on agricultural frontiers: The case of Northwestern Petén, Guatemala Kevin A. Gould Extra-legal land market dynamics on a Guatemalan agricultural frontier: Implications for neoliberal land policies Kevin A. Gould, Douglas R. Carter and Ram K. Shrestha Rice to shrimp: Land use/land cover changes and soil degradation in Southwestern Bangladesh Abu Muhammad Shajaat Ali A case study of land reform and coastal land transformation in southern Sonora, Mexico Amy L. Luers, Rosamond L. Naylor and Pamela A. Matson Equity in informal land delivery: Insights from Enugu, Nigeria Uche Ikejiofor The regulatory framework, unplanned development and urban poverty: Findings from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania JM. Lusugga Kironde Urban containment strategies: A case-study appraisal of plans and policies in Japanese, British, and Canadian cities Hugh Millward The importance of the institutional environment on multifunctional farming systems in the peri-urban area of Brussels Valerie Vandermeulen, Ann Verspecht, Guido Van Huylenbroeck, Henk Meert, Ankatrien Boulanger and Etienne Van Hecke Applying evaluation criteria for the land consolidation effect to three contrasting study areas in the Czech Republic Petr Sklenicka Land consolidation in inland rural Galicia, NW. Spain, since 1950: An example of the formulation and use of questions, criteria and indicators for evaluation of rural development policies David Miranda, Rafael Crecente and M. Flor Alvarez Nitrate pollution control under soil heterogeneity Yolanda Martinez and José Albiac Economic and environmental analysis of buffer zones as an instrument to reduce ammonia loads to nature areas Jesper S. Schou, Knud Tybirk, Per Lofstram and Ole Hertel Diversity of incentives for private forest landowners: An assessment of programs in Indiana, USA Abigail M. York, Marco A. Janssen and Laura A. Carlson Characteristics and land use of contaminated brownfield properties in voluntary cleanup agreement programs GW. Page and R.S. Berger The assessment of agritourism policy based on SEA combination with HIA Nae-Wen Kuo and Yu-Ting Chiu Why is the issue of land ownership still of major concern in East Central European (ECE) transitional countries and particularly in Hungary? Anna Burger Part special issue: Whose land? Whose land? The political economy of land titling in transitional economies Peter Ho and Max Spoor Credibility of institutions: Forestry, social conflict and titling in China Peter Ho Urban land administration and planning in China: Opportunities and constraints of spatial data models Jianquan Cheng, Jan Turkstra, Mingjun Peng, Ningrui Du and Peter Ho Politics of rural land registration in post-socialist societies: Contested titling in villages of Northwest Vietnam Thomas Sikor Establishing a modern cadastral system within a transition country: Consequences for the Republic of Moldova Sean M. Cashin and Gerald McGrath Viewpoints Valuing diversity for sustainable futures: A response to Wood and Lenné Douglas Bardsley The value of agrobiodiversity in marginal agriculture: A reply to Bardsley D. Wood and J Lenné Book review Volume contents and author index