Download or read book Farming Alone Factors Influencing Farmland Conversion Along the Rural Urban Fringe written by Andrew J Huddy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization is a complex process of converting urban fringe and rural land to urban land uses and has caused various impacts on ecosystem structure, function, and dynamics. Estimates of the agricultural land converted annually to low density non-agricultural uses vary from between 800,000 to more than 3 million acres nationwide—a rate of five times the rate of population growth, and in the process, fragmented the agricultural land base. Much of the land lost is prime or unique farmland, disproportionately located near cities. Classical land use theory asserts that a study of market forces and land value, defined in terms of inherent productivity and/or distance from urban centers, can explain this change. This study is important in advancing geographic research on land use change in urban fringe areas, methodologically and theoretically. Data utilized were parcel-scale and remotely-sensed spatial data for a complete Michigan county in an attempt to better test the effects of economic and non-economic factors on land use change in a statistical model. An initial pilot study helped identify potential factor relationships in the research. The research presented makes several advances over previous land use studies by combining several methods for modeling land use change. First, it uses non-economic variables based on land attachment and social capital, as well as traditional economic variables to explain land use change. Second, it develops a continuous parcel data set using existing ownership records. This better represents the decision-making unit at farm scale with respect to farm retention. Third, it combines modeling techniques, including ordinary least squares Geographic Weighted Regression (GWR), to analyze and visualize factors influencing land use in the rural fringe reduce residual spatial autocorrelation. Other spatial analyses were used to identify factor concentrations, patterns of rural networking, and clustering related to social capital. Results show that prime farmland is significantly related to farm conversion and that the important social capital variable related to farm preservation participation also accounts, to a certain degree, for the change in land use for the study area. Strength of relationship and factor patterning factors related to land use change were successfully identified. Additionally, this research has illustrated the need to explore means to include non-economic variables in future research on the causes of urban sprawl and loss of farmland.
Download or read book Agricultural Land Conversion in the Urban rural Fringe written by Robert E. Coughlin and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Urbanization on the Loss of Farmland at the Rural urban Fringe written by Thomas Plaut and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Converting Land from Rural to Urban Uses Routledge Revivals written by A. Allan Schmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title aims to use social science research to contribute towards solving policy problems raised by the rural to urban land conversion process and by high land prices in particular. Ultimately, this book aims to develop the information useful to public decisions on zoning, taxation, public investments, transport systems, new towns, and so on, as they might affect the cost and quality of the conversion process. This book will be of interest to students of environmental studies.
Download or read book THE RURAL URBAN FRINGE URBAN GROWTH AND THE PRESERVATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS LAND PRESERVATION written by WILLIAM C. SULLIVAN (III) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: sense that the community and the land have an appropriate, compatible, healthy fit--are also the most likely to be destroyed as the rural-urban fringe is developed.
Download or read book Factors Affecting Land Use Change at the Rural urban Fringe written by Constance Stewart Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Action Relating to Farmland on the Rural urban Fringe written by Peter William House and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Externalities and Valuation of Farmland in the Urban Fringe written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Land Use in the Rural urban Fringe written by Harold Graham Pettifer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development at the Urban Fringe and Beyond written by Ralph E. Heimlich and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Low income Farm People written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review the implementation of the conservation title of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics and Externalities of Agricultural Land in the Urban Fringe written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preservation of agricultural land, especially that which lies close to cities (in the so-called urban fringe), is a concern in many jurisdictions around the world. Agricultural land values change dramatically as farmland is located nearer to urban areas and development pressure has increased on these lands as urban populations have expanded. In British Columbia, Canada, a provincial-wide zoning system forbids the development or non-agricultural use of land without special permission. This system is explicitly designed to protect the capability of the land to produce food in the future, but it also implicitly protects the positive spillovers from agricultural land such as environmental services and open space. Three empirical papers comprise the original research in this dissertation. They seek to answer related questions about agricultural land values in the urban fringe. First, a statistical investigation is conducted into the factors that are associated with successful applications for exclusion from the agricultural zoning system. This study finds that a measure of distance (metres from the main highway) is highly significantly correlated with a parcel's chances of being excluded. Next, a paper examines the trend of hobby farmers springing up in the urban fringe. Two different models seek to illuminate common trends in the types of parcels that hobby farmers choose, and the price that hobby farmers pay for the land, respectively. This study finds that hobby farmers seem to be very selective about the parcels they choose, likely trying to take advantage of favourable taxation rates for agricultural producers in place in the province. Lastly, a study seeks to understand how residential parcels' values are influenced by the nearness to and view of agricultural land. Agricultural land in the study does not appear to exhibit an open space premium, though this could be influenced by uncertainty about the future use of the land. All the empirical work in this disser.
Download or read book The Rural urban Fringe written by Kenneth B. Beesley and published by Downsview, Ont. : Department of Geography, Atkinson College, York University. This book was released on 1981 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban and Agricultural Communities written by Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and published by Council for Agricultural Science & Technology (Cast). This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Development Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
