Agriculture and the environment : searching for greener pastures
- Responsibility
- edited by Terry L. Anderson and Bruce Yandle.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, [2001]
- Copyright notice
- ©2001
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations.
- Series
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 483.
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Anderson, Terry L. (Terry Lee), 1946-
- Yandle, Bruce.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The disappearance of agricultural land: fact or fiction? / Bruce R. Beattie
- Land trusts: a return to feudalism / Roger Meiners and Bruce Yandle
- Taxation, free markets, and the use of agricultural land / Richard E. Wagner
- The political economy of land conversion on the urban fringe / Samuel R. Staley
- Some issues surrounding land and chemical use in agriculture / B. Delworth Gardner
- Biotechnology, land-use, and the environment: untying the Gordian knot / Henry I. Miller
- To breed, or not to breed? The question of endangered species and agriculture / Ike C. Sugg
- Agriculture and water markets / Terry L. Anderson and Clay J. Landry.
- Summary
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The authors focus on the major environmental constraints that limit U.S. food production without necessarily improving environmental quality. Each chapter documents a specific issue, discusses the regulatory response, and offers ideas for reform.
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Subjects
- Subject
- Agricultural ecology > United States.
- Agriculture > Environmental aspects > United States.
- Land use, Rural > United States.
- NATURE > Ecology.
- NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
- SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
- SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
- Agricultural ecology.
- Agriculture > Environmental aspects.
- Land use, Rural.
- United States.
- Landwirtschaft
- Umweltschutz
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Bodennutzung
- USA.
- Genre
- Electronic book.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2001
- Series
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 483
- Access
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Format
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- Action note
- digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
- ISBN
- 9780817999186 (electronic bk.)
- 0817999183 (electronic bk.)
- 9780817999162 (electronic bk.)
- 0817999167 (electronic bk.)
- 0817999124
- 9780817999124
