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The Vanishing Farmland Crisis
Author | : John Baden |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2021-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0700631380 |
Newspapers seem to be telling us that every cornfield is threatened by a Dairy Queen. This media barrage about the crisis of our “shrinking” farmland can be traced to the 1979 publication of Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study. The NALS report, to which eleven federal agencies contributed, argued that land-use planning and control must be employed to protect valuable farmland from “urban sprawl.” This volume, a collection of essays by a distinguished group of economists including Theodore W. Schultz, Julian L. Simon, and Pierre Crosson, takes issue with the belief that croplands need governmental protection. In opposition the collection as a whole supports two theses: 1) shrinking farm acreage is not a serious problem, and 2) individual choices by landowners in a market setting result in better-organized land use than would governmental land-use planning and regulation. Published for the Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana
Vanishing Farmland
Author | : Sarah E. Redfield |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Vanishing Farmland
Author | : Sarah E. Redfield |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
New Jersey's Environments
Author | : Neil M. Maher |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2006-01-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0813539226 |
Americans often think of New Jersey as an environmental nightmare. As seen from its infamous turnpike, which is how many travelers experience the Garden State, it is difficult not to be troubled by the wealth of industrial plants, belching smokestacks, and hills upon hills of landfills. Yet those living and working in New Jersey often experience a very different environment. Despite its dense population and urban growth, two-thirds of the state remains covered in farmland and forest, and New Jersey has a larger percentage of land dedicated to state parks and forestland than the average for all states. It is this ecological paradox that makes New Jersey important for understanding the relationship between Americans and their natural world. In New Jersey’s Environments, historians, policy-makers, and earth scientists use a case study approach to uncover the causes and consequences of decisions regarding land use, resources, and conservation. Nine essays consider topics ranging from solid waste and wildlife management to the effects of sprawl on natural disaster preparedness. The state is astonishingly diverse and faces more than the usual competing interests from environmentalists, citizens, and businesses. This book documents the innovations and compromises created on behalf of and in response to growing environmental concerns in New Jersey, all of which set examples on the local level for nationwide and worldwide efforts that share the goal of protecting the natural world.
Farmland Preservation
Author | : Jane Potter Gates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Land use, Rural |
ISBN | : |
Regulatory Reform--1974
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2076 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Independent regulatory commissions |
ISBN | : |
The Vanishing Present
Author | : Donald M. Waller |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0226871746 |
Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest of the world, the Badger State has been transformed by urbanization and sprawl, population growth, and land-use change. For decades, industry and environment have attempted to coexist in Wisconsin—and the dynamic tensions between economic progress and environmental protection makes the state a fascinating microcosm for studying global environmental change. The Vanishing Present brings together a distinguished set of contributors—including scientists, naturalists, and policy experts—to examine how human pressures on Wisconsin’s changing lands, waters, and wildlife have redefined the state’s ecology. Though they focus on just one state, the authors draw conclusions about changes in temperate habitats that can be applied elsewhere, and offer useful insights into future of the ecology, conservation, and sustainability of Wisconsin and beyond. A fitting tribute to the home state of Aldo Leopold and John Muir, The Vanishing Present is an accessible and timely case study of a significant ecosystem and its response to environmental change.