Download or read book Farmland Preservation in an Urban Fringe Area written by William G. Lesher and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plowing the Urban Fringe written by Hal D. Hiemstra and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contested Countryside written by Owen J. Furuseth and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited series of research papers reflecting the more haphazard nature of rural policy in North America which lacks a unifying national policy. The focus is on experience at the State or Provincial Level with papers concentrating on new policy initiatives which could be usefully applied elsewhere. The book also provides a synopsis of important new developments across the area.

Download or read book Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy written by Robert J. Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As external forces increase the demand for land conversion, communities are increasingly open to policies that encourage conservation of farm and forest lands. This interest in conservation notwithstanding, the consequences of land-use policy and the drivers of land conversions are often unclear. One of the first books to deal exclusively with the economics of rural-urban sprawl, Economics and Contemporary Land-Use Policy explores the causes and consequences of rapidly accelerating land conversions in urban-fringe areas, as well as implications for effective policy responses. This book emphasizes the critical role of both spatial and economic-ecological interactions in contemporary land use, and the importance of a practical, policy-oriented perspective. Chapters illustrate an interaction of conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches to land-use policy and highlight advances in policy-oriented economics associated with the conservation and development of urban-fringe land. Issues addressed include (1) the appropriate role of economics in land-use policy, (2) forecasting and management of land conversion, (3) interactions among land use, property values, and local taxes, and (4) relationships among rural amenities, rural character, and urban-fringe land-use policy. Economics and Contemporary Land-Use Policy is a timely and relevant contribution to the land-use policy debate and will prove an essential reference for policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels. It will also be of interest to students, academics, and anyone with an interest in the practical application of economics to land-use issues.

Download or read book Understanding Farmer Attitudes about Farmland Preservation in the Urban Fringe written by Juliet T. Hansel and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Urban fringe Landowners Preferences for Particular Farmland Preservation Programs written by Qing Bai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmland preservation policies and programs have been in place at the national, state, and local levels since the 1970s in the United States. Features in landowners' stated preferences for these programs are critical in evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency in designing and implementing these policy programs. Quite a few behavioral studies have already been done in this field. However, most of these studies were associated with an implicit assumption--Independent and Identical Distribution (IID) in setting up choice models. This assumption not only eliminates the variation in the personal preference for a farmland preservation program among individuals, but also denies the interdependence among an individual landowner's preferences for several preservation programs. Technically, this assumption introduces bias and inefficiency into modeling. Without convincible justification, the involvement of IID could lead to biased model estimates and distort the interpretation. Unfortunately, such justification is barely mentioned and/or addressed at all in these studies. People are different, so do their preferences. Moreover, personal preferences for several preservation programs are simultaneously constrained by one's social-economic context. With such acknowledgements, both the variation in the personal preference for a farmland program and the interdependences among preferences for several programs are particular of the interest in this research. A modeling framework centering on a system of heteroscedastic probit models is calibrated to achieve unbiasedness and efficiency in implementing and evaluating preservation programs. A dataset from the state-level urban-fringe landowners' survey in 2001 and 2002 collected by the research team in American Farmland Trust (AFT) is used in this research. The survey covers fifty metropolitan counties in five states, i.e., Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Texas, and California. 1617 landowners were contacted either by phone calls or by mail. Farmland preservation programs concerned in the survey includes the agricultural zoning, the Purchase of Development Rights, the Purchase of Conservation Easements in California, and the use-value taxation programs. The personal preference for a preservation program is expected to be influenced by owners' social-economic circumstances, farmland characteristics, objectives of land ownership, and local social-economic conditions. Significant findings of related factors in shaping a landowner's preference for a preservation program from literature are referred for its generalization meanings. The result shows that the modeling framework based on a system of heteroscedastic probit models succeeds in explicitly capturing variations in and interdependence among personal preferences for several farmland preservation programs. The modeling framework can be generalized regardless of the geographic settings, i.e., state-level and/or county-level. The significance and magnitude of an individual factor effecting on one's preference for a preservation program, however, cannot be generalized across geographic boundaries, i.e., they are more of localized. Meanwhile, findings of the effect of individual factors are not precisely consistent with those from other studies. Suggestions for effective and efficient policy implementation are derived from findings of effects of individual factors on personal preferences for preservation programs. The dissertation consists of five chapters. The first two briefly describe the history of farmland preservation programs and the necessity of policy evaluation in the United States. Chapter three mainly puts efforts in describing and comparing features of available discrete choice models in dealing with complicated individual behaviors, and then a desired modeling framework is carefully described in details. Chapter four reports the model calibration process and model estimates with empirical data. Propositions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the policy implementation are also delivered here. The final chapter makes conclusion about the generalization of findings and gives hints for the future study.

Download or read book Farmland Preservation written by Wayne J. Caldwell and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited. Farmland preservation speaks to the need to preserve the agricultural land base for future generations. The need for protection is driven by uncertainty caused by climate change, population growth, food security, energy availability, and other local and global factors. This uncertainty means that there is an ever-growing responsibility to ensure that the actions of today do not compromise the needs of future generations. This second edition of Farmland Preservation provides a range of views and case studies from across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Its fourteen essays are intended to help the reader understand the importance of the issue and the potential for applying new approaches to agricultural protection, policy tools, and initiatives.

Download or read book Integrated Programs of Incentives and Controls for Farmland Preservation in Three Metropolitan Areas written by Lisa Rosenberger and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Land Conservation on the Urban Fringe written by Alexander Thomas Hinds and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Urban Fringe written by Rutherford H. Platt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Urban Fringe was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The non-metropolitan hinterland of the United States is no longer the placid and bucolic countryside celebrated by Currier and Ives. As urban America imposes ever-increasing demands upon the nation's resources, energy, water, food, recreation and scenery, peace and quiet are all sought in the land beyond the urban fringe. Certain dramatic changes in non-metropolitan America are already apparent. Census figures from 1980 documented that the population of rural areas and small towns was increasing more rapidly than that of metropolitan areas or the nation as a whole. The interstate highway network affords unprecedented access to small cities and towns, broadening commuting patterns and enabling industries to relocate outside of cities. During the 1960s and 1970s millions of acres were carved yo for second homes and recreational developments, a practice which often inflated the price of rural land. Beyond the Urban Fringe deals with problems arising from this transformation of nonmetropolitan America. It is based on reports given at a 1980 conference sponsored by the Association of American Geographers and funded by the National Science Foundation, with the participation of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Office of Water Research and Technology. The authors represent a wide range of disciplines--geography, resource economics, rural sociology, planning, law, and physics--and deal with topics not often found in a single volume: the character of land-use change in non-metropolitan areas, rural economic growth and decline, the rural land market, the growth and decline of small towns, farmland policy, remote sensing in rural areas, the impact of energy development on land use, hazardous waste disposal, and nuclear plant siting in nonurban areas. Geographers, planners, resource economists, and others concerned with environmental and resource management will find Beyond the Urban Fringe a valuable source of current research on a subject of central importance at all levels of government.

Download or read book California s Farmland Preservation Programs Taxes and Furthering the Appropriate Safeguarding of Agriculture at the Urban Fringe to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions written by Robert W. Wassmer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California has long been a leader in both its attempts to preserve land devoted to agricultural production and in its approach to funding its state and local governments. Recently it has become the leader in creating a statewide policy (AB 32) to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases generated within its border. California's policy choices regarding state and local revenue reliance, farmland preservation, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are interrelated. There is concern among environmental and agricultural stakeholders that elements of the system of state and local taxation that developed in California after Proposition 13 discourages the retention of land in agriculture, and this subsequently generates greater urban sprawl in the state. Many of these same stakeholders point to the presence of the state's three major farmland conservation programs (and other programs and multiple policies throughout different codes) as encouraging the retention of agricultural land and thus resulting in less urban sprawl in the state. The overall purpose of this paper is to examine these two claims in as unbiased a manner as academically possible and to offer an opinion on their validity. Such an opinion is necessary to offer an informed comment on the desirability of reforming the state's tax system, and/or expanding the state's system of farmland preservation, to reduce the degree of sprawl experienced in California and thus be better poised to achieve the reduction in GHGs mandated by AB 32.

Download or read book A Regional Approach to Farmland Preservation written by Darrell Eugene Napton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land Use Transition in Urbanizing Areas written by Ralph E. Heimlich and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land use Control for the Preservation of Open Space on the Rural urban Fringe written by Melville L. McMillan and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State Action Relating to Taxation of Farmland on the Rural urban Fringe written by Peter William House and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Taxation of Farmland on the Rural urban Fringe written by Thomas F. Hady and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: