The Vanishing Farmland Crisis : Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land / / ed. by John Baden. Publ. for the Political Economy Research Center.
The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen as endangered—and as the direct prelude to a nationwide shortage of both food...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bozeman/Mont. : : Univ. Pr. of Kansas,, 1985. ©1985. |
| Year of Publication: | 1984 1985 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Government and Public Policy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (IX, 169 Seiten.) |
| Notes: | 9 Beitr. |
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| Summary: | The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen as endangered—and as the direct prelude to a nationwide shortage of both food and fiber. The NALS report, to which eleven federal agencies contributed, argued that landuse planning and control must be employed to protect valuable farmland from “urban sprawl.” First published in 1984, this collection of essays by a distinguished group of economists, including Theodore W. Schultz, Julian L. Simon, and Pierre Crosson, takes issue with the belief that croplands need governmental protection. Rather, the collection as a whole supports two theses: 1) shrinking farm acreage is not a serious problem, and 2) individual choices by landowners in a free market setting result in betterorganized land use than would governmental landuse planning and regulation. |
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| ISBN: | 0700602534 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by John Baden. Publ. for the Political Economy Research Center. |