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

• Superior document: Routledge research in environmental economics ; 2
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Goetz, Stephan J.; Shortle, J. S.; Bergstrom, John C.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in environmental economics ; 2.
• Physical Description: xvii, 361 p. :; ill., map.
• Notes: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

Table of Contents

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.