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 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 52 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 An Analysis of Land Use Change at the Rural urban Fringe written by Arthur Michael Wiese and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landowner Supply response Behavior and the Land Conversion Process in the Rural Urban Fringe written by Michael K. Bertelsen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 84 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 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 337 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 Analysis of Agricultural Land Transfers on the Urban rural Fringe with Implications for Land Use Controls written by Ben Abbitt and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City s Countryside written by C. R. Bryant and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural urban Fringe written by C. S. Yadav and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 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 Urbanization of Rural Land in the United States written by Marlow Vesterby and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural urban Land Conversions in Iowa written by James R. Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines problems associated with controlling the conversion of agricultural land to urban uses, with emphasis on the complementaries that exist between the urban and rural sectors.
Download or read book Selected Factors Affecting the Pattern of Agricultural Land Conversion in Washington County Oregon 1963 1973 written by Owen James Furuseth and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the conversion of agricultural lands to more intensive non-rural land uses has become a focus of increasing public awareness and concern. The growing attention to farmland conversion is manifested in increasing public policies and legilsation to protect agricultural and forestry land uses. Nevertheless, our understanding of the farmland conversion process is restricted. Although agricultural land conversion has been descriptively addressed, little consideration has been given to defining and analyzing the factors affecting the spatial pattern of rural land conversion. The purpose of this investigation was to analyze the impact of selected variables on agricultural land transition to more intensive non-agricultural uses. The research tested the reliability of a composite site characteristic model, and individual submodels for explaining land conversion patterns in Washington County, Oregon. Within the framework of the site characteristic model, specific objectives were: (1) to determine those site factors which exhibited a significant influence on agricultural land conversion, (2) to estimate empirically the influence of each factor on agricultural land conversion, and (3) to determine differences in the effect of individual factors and composite models on agricultural land conversion in areas with varying stages of urbanization. The site characteristic model examined in the investigation included twenty-three predictor variables drawn from four sets of site factors. These four broad categories of site characteristics are accessibility indices, infrastructural-policy factors, social factors, and environmental factors. Individual regression models were developed for each set of site characteristic variables, as well as, for the composite site characteristic model. Published government documents, planning reports, and manually calculated information from aerial photographs provided the primary sources of these data. Following the collection of farmland conversion data from 1963 and 1973 aerial photography for Washington County, a series of multiple regression analyses were undertaken. The results of these analyses showed that the hypothesized site characteristics proved important factors in explaining farmland conversion patterns. The composite site characteristic model, with fourteen predictor variables, accounted for 78 percent of the variation in farmland conversion for the county. Geographically, the composite model was most effective in explaining land conversion in urban sections of the county (R2 = . 676), while achieving its lowest precision in urban-rural fringe areas (R2 = . 627). As expected, the effectiveness of individual submodels varied extensively with respect to explaining land conversion. Several of the hypothesized variables were consistently strong performers accounting for much of the variation in farmland transition. Conversely, numerous variables proved of only peripheral value during the modeling. The modeling results showed the most powerful set of variables to be the infrastructural-policy factors. This submodel, with four significant variables, was able to explain 70.7 percent of the variation in farmland transition for the entire county. Conversely, the weakest set of site characteristics were the environmental factors. With five significant variables the environment submodel accounted for 49.2 percent of the farmland conversion in the study area. As in the case of the composite model, the relative effectiveness of the submodels varied extensively between urban, urban-rural fringe, and rural portions of Washington County. The research results of the investigation found that the site characteristic model provided a consistently powerful tool for understanding farmland transition in all sections of Washington County, Oregon. The strong measure of reliability associated with the site characteristic methodology, viewed within the framework of concern for farmland conversion, suggests that the conclusions of this investigation may have broad policy implications. The linkage between farmland development and site characteristics provide insight regarding the operation of agricultural land conversion process. Drawing on the relationships pointed out in the investigation, Washington County and other governmental units may find that the study findings can assist in improving mechanisms for controlling land conversion.
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 Sustainable Development and the Rural urban Fringe written by Kenneth B. Beesley and published by Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg. This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of the linkage and contradictions within and between the terms sustainable development and the rural-urban fringe. The report begins with a brief discussion of the principal terms, then discusses the concepts from the perspectives of urban-regional and rural areas. It addresses the question of agriculture and urbanization and sustainable agriculture, and life in the rural-urban fringe, including sustainable communities and the satisfaction of the inhabitants. The report concludes with proposals and prospects.
