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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451538003321

Titolo

Land use problems and conflicts : causes, consequences and solutions / / edited by Stephen J. Goetz, James S. Shortle and John C. Bergstrom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-99612-1

1-280-17778-0

0-203-79983-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in environmental economics ; ; 2

Classificazione

74.74

Altri autori (Persone)

GoetzStephan J (Stephan Juergen)

ShortleJ. S (James S.)

BergstromJohn C (John Clark)

Disciplina

333.73/13/0973

Soggetti

Land use - Economic aspects - United States

Land use - Economic aspects - Europe

Land use - Environmental aspects - United States

Land use - Environmental aspects - Europe

Urbanization - United States

Urbanization - Europe

Agricultural conservation - United States

Agricultural conservation - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contemporary land use problems and conflicts / Stephan J. Goetz, James S. Shortle and John C. Bergstrom -- Rural land use problems and policy options: overview from a US perspective / Lawrence W. Libby -- Land use problems: a European perspective / Nick D. Hanley and Fiona Watson -- Employment growth, population growth and electronic technologies as determinants of land use / Charles Barnard -- Failing markets and fragile institutions in land use: Colorado's experience / Andrew F. Seidl -- Postproductivism and changing rural land use values and preferences / John C. Bergstrom -- Urban development impacts on



ecosystems / Elizabeth P. Marhsall and James S. Shortle -- Urban growth, rural land conversion and the fiscal well-being of local municipalities / Steven Deller -- Sense of place as an integrated framework for understanding human impacts of land use change / Richard C. Stedman -- Socioeconomic and health outcomes of land use / Stephan J. Goetz -- Spatial analysis and applied land use research / Kathleen P. Bell -- Public preferences for farmland attributes in conservation easement programs / Robert W. Paterson,...[et al.] -- Value conflict and land use planning: an example at the rural-urban interface / Max J. Pfeffer,...[et al.] -- The impacts of land use on nearby property values: estimates from a hedonic house price model / Richard C. Ready and Charles W. Abdalla -- Agri-environmental complementaries: challenges and opportunities in an old world / Ian Hodge -- Multifuncitionality, land use and agricultural policy / David Abler -- Sprawl: contemporary land use planning's paradigm / Mark B. Lapping -- The smart growth approach to urban land use: implications for farmland protection / Alvin D. Sokolow -- Protecting farmland: why do we do it? Can we do it better? / Lori Lynch -- What would an ideal Federal rural land use policy look like? / Thomas Johnson -- Future research needs for rational land use decisions / Stephan J. Goetz, James S. Shortle and John C. Bergstrom.

Sommario/riassunto

The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens are starting to realize that many environmental and economic issues have the question of land use at their very core.Comprising papers from a conference sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, Land Use Problems and Conflicts draws together some of the most up-to-date research in this