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Informationen zum Autor James S. Shortle, John C. Bergstrom, Stephen J Goetz Klappentext The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. With a lineup including some of the best scholarship on this subject to date, this volume will be of use to those studying environmental and land use issues in addition to policy makers and economists. Zusammenfassung The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. With a lineup including some of the best scholarship on this subject to date, this volume will be of use to those studying environmental and land use issues in addition to policy makers and economists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Contemporary land use problems and conflicts; 1: Land use problems and conflicts; 2: Rural land use problems and policy options; 3: Land use problems; 4: Employment growth, population growth and electronic technologies as determinants of land use; 5: Failing markets and fragile institutions in land use; 6: Postproductivism and changing rural land use values and preferences; 2: A closer look at consequences of land use problems and conflicts; 7: Urban development impacts on ecosystems; 8: Urban growth, rural land conversion and the fiscal well-being of local municipalities; 9: Sense of place as an integrated framework for understanding human impacts of land use change; 10: Socioeconomic and health outcomes of land use; 3: Data and empirical issues; 11: Spatial analysis and applied land use research; 12: Public preferences for farmland attributes in conservation easement programs 1; 13: Value conflict and land use planning; 14: The impacts of land use on nearby property values; 4: A closer look at solutions to land use problems and conflicts; 15: Agri-environmental complementarities; 16: Multifunctionality, land use and agricultural policy; 17: Sprawl; 18: The smart growth approach to urban land use; 19: Protecting farmland; 20: What would an ideal Federal rural land use policy look like?; 21: Future research needs for rational land use decisions...
