Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T02:15:16.533Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Model to Select Optimal Land-Use Mixes in Rural-Urban Fringe Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Robert E. Lee II  and
Robert L. Christensen
Robert E. Lee II
Affiliation:
Department of Conservation, Springfield, Illinois
Robert L. Christensen
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts
Get access

Extract

Agricultural land in rural-urban fringe areas has received strong competition from expanding urban communities during recent years. Much of this urban growth has occurred haphazardly and has removed many acres of prime agricultural land from production as the private land market has failed to fully account for the social costs of land-use transitions. The impacts from these shifts in land use are felt by farmers, municipalities and the general public.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , October 1976 , pp. 40 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

The research reported here was supported by the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station-Hatch 325 and the ERS, USDA. This paper results from Robert E. Lee's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation titled “Economic Evaluation of Land-Use Alternatives on the Urban Fringe”, University of Massachusetts, 1975. Massachusetts Experiment Station Paper 2076.

References

1. Allee, David J.; Hunt, Charles I.; Smith, Mary A.; Lawson, Barry R. and Hinman, R. C., Toward the Year 1985: The Conversion of Land to Urban Use in New York State, Special Cornell Series No. 8, Ithaca, New York, 1970.Google Scholar
2. Little, Charles E., Challenge of the Land, New York: Open Space Action Institute, Inc., 1968.Google Scholar