Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions

ISBN-13: 9780415778572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 380 str.

C. Bergstrom John; Stephan J. Goetz

Opis

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 area. Sections are devoted to problems in the United States and Europe, the consequences of such problems, land use-related data and alternative solutions to conflict. 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

James S. Shortle, John C. Bergstrom, Stephen J Goetz