UID:
almafu_9959711207702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (IX, 169 Seiten.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780700602537
,
0700602534
Serie:
Studies in Government and Public Policy
Inhalt:
The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen as endangered—and as the direct prelude to a nationwide shortage of both food and fiber. The NALS report, to which eleven federal agencies contributed, argued that landuse planning and control must be employed to protect valuable farmland from “urban sprawl.” First published in 1984, this 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. Rather, 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 free market setting result in betterorganized land use than would governmental landuse planning and regulation.
Anmerkung:
9 Beitr.
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780700631384
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0700631380
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780700630707
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0700630708
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
