The Oxford handbook of land economics / edited by Joshua M. Duke and Junjie Wu.

"What do economists know about land--and how they know? The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics describes the latest developments in the fields of economics that examine land, including natural resource economics, environmental economics, regional science, and urban economics. The handbook argues...

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Other Authors: Duke, Joshua M. (Editor), Wu, JunJie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:Oxford handbooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Land as an Integrating Theme in Economics
  • PART I. DETERMINANTS AND DRIVERS OF LAND USE CHANGE. 1. Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics
  • 2. Technology Adoption and Land Use
  • 3. Are Large Metropolitan Areas Still Viable?
  • 4. Modeling the Land Use Change with Biofuels
  • 5. Modeling the Determinants of Farmland Values in the United States
  • 6. Land Use and Sustainable Economic Development: Developing World
  • PART II. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF LAND USE AND LAND USE CHANGE. 7. The Economics of Wildlife Conservation
  • 8. Connecting Ecosystem Services to Land Use: Implications for Valuation and Policy
  • 9. Land Use and Climate Change
  • 10. Land Use, Climate Change, and Ecosystem Services
  • 11. Fire: An Agent and a Consequence of Land Use Change
  • 12. Land Use and Municipal Profiles
  • PART III. METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS. 13. An Assessment of Empirical Methods for Modeling Land Use
  • 14. Equilibrium Sorting Models of Land Use and Residential Choice
  • 15. Landscape Simulations with Econometric-Based Land Use Models
  • 16. An Economic Perspective on Agent-Based Models of Land Use and Land Cover Change
  • 17. Spatial Econometric Modeling of Land Use Change
  • 18. Using Quasi-Experimental Methods to Evaluate Land Policies: Application to Maryland's Priority Funding Legislation
  • 19. Applying Experiments to Land Economics: Public Information and Auction Efficiency in Ecosystem Service Markets
  • PART IV. THE ECONOMICS OF LAND USE LAW AND POLICY. 20. Open Space Preservation: Direct Controls and Fiscal Incentives
  • 21. Land Conservation in the United States
  • 22. European Agri-Environmental Policy: The Conservation and Re-Creation of Cultural Landscapes
  • 23. Agri-Environmental Policies: A Comparison of US and EU Experiences
  • 24. Stigmatized Sites and Urban Brownfield Redevelopment
  • 25. Regulatory Takings
  • 26. Eminent Domain and the Land Assembly Problem
  • 27. Future Research Directions in Land Economics.