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Summary
Summary
Public concern over land management has never been greater. This book provides a broad overview of the economics of rural land-use change, drawing attention to the meaningful role economic analysis can play in resolving public concern and supporting future, pro-active land management strategies in rural areas. The book's breadth distinguishes it from other recent texts, as it jointly offers rigorous treatments of theoretical and empirical models of rural land-use change and practical discussions of applications and relevant methods. Chapters are specifically designed to demonstrate the types of land-use questions economic analysis can answer, the types of methods that might be employed to answer these questions, and the types of public policy decisions that may be supported by such analysis. The book makes a significant contribution to contemporary land-use research, highlighting the key methodological and public policy issues that will be central to future research on the economics of rural land-use change.
Author Notes
Kathleen P. Bell is Assistant Professor and Kevin J. Boyle is Distinguished Maine Professor both in the Department of Resource Economics and Policy at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA. Jonathan Rubin is Interim Director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center for Public Policy and also Associate Professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Policy at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA.
Table of Contents
| Introduction and Background: Objectives and perspectivesKathleen P. Bell and Kevin J. Boyle and Andrew J. Plantinga and Jonathan Rubin and Mario F. Teisl |
| A discussion of recent land-use trendsMary Clare Ahearn and Ralph J. Alig |
| Effects of policy and technological change on land useRalph J. Alig and Mary Clare Ahearn |
| Transportation and land-use changeJonathan Rubin |
| Patterns and processes in the demographics of land use change in the United States, DeirdreM. Mageean and John G. Bartlett |
| Determinants of Land-Use Change: Theoretical backgroundKathleen Segerson and Andrew J. Plantinga and Elena G. Irwin |
| Overview of empirical methodsAndrew J. Plantinga and Elena G. Irwin |
| An application of the land-use shares modelAndrew J. Plantinga |
| Estimating a spatially explicit model of residential land-use change to understand and predict patterns of urban growth at the rural-urban fringeElena G. Irwin and Kathleen P. Bell |
| Consequences of Land-Use Change |
| Land-use change and ecosystems: anticipating the consequences of private and public decisions in the South Florida landscapeJ. Walter Milon |
| Conserving biodiversity by conserving landStephen J. Polasky and Christian A. Vossler |
| Land-use changes and regulations in five Western States of the United StatesJunJie Wu. |
| Valuation of Land-Use Change: Valuation and land-use changeKevin J. Boyle and Kathleen P. Bell and Jonathan Rubin |
| Valuing changes in rural land uses: measuring willingness to pay for changes in forest management practicesMario F. Teisl and Kevin J. Boyle |
| Using hedonic techniques to estimate the effects of rural land-use change on property values: an exampleRaymond B. Palmquist |
| Conclusions: Summary and conclusionsKathleen P. Bell and Kevin J. Boyle and Jonathan Rubin |
| Index |
