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We use the location set covering problem to define a natural area site selection model for use in the Chicago region.
In the 1990's, urban demand for housing land around city-agglomerations increased rapidly. Additionally, the decreasing profitability of agricultural production caused farmers, who are able to freely decide on land turnover, to be interested in land sale for non-agricultural purposes.
At the beginning of the transition, the economic decline of agriculture partially relaxed the pressure on the wildlife. However, the policy continued to concentrate on regulating the intensity of production rather then creating incentives to produce environmental qualities.
Public preferences for nonmarket services of preserved land in Delaware are measured using two survey techniques.
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), first enacted in 1985, seeks to achieve both conservation and agricultural supply control objectives through voluntary, long-term (10 year contracts) retirement of cropland.
The 2002 SDSU Farm Real Estate Market Survey reports current agricultural land values and cash rental rates by land use in different regions of South Dakota and compares them with values of earlier years.
This paper measures the potential of land to generate income and establishes the contexts under which access to land can reduce poverty. Using Mexican household data, we apply nonparametric regression methods to estimate and graphically explore the relationship between land and welfare.