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Title The Vanishing Farmland Crisis Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land / ed. by John Baden. Publ. for the Political Economy Research Center.

Publication Info. Bozeman/Mont. : Univ. Pr. of Kansas, 1985.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
1985.

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Description 1 online resource (IX, 169 Seiten.).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Studies in Government and Public Policy
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Note 9 Beitr.
Description based on print version record.
Summary 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.
Subject Land use, Rural -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses.
Soil conservation -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses.
Farms -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses.
Agriculture and state -- United States -- Congresses.
Utilisation agricole du sol -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis -- Congrès.
Sols -- Conservation -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis -- Congrès.
Exploitations agricoles -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis -- Congrès.
Politique agricole -- États-Unis -- Congrès.
Food & society.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
Agriculture and state
Farms -- Government policy
Land use, Rural -- Government policy
Soil conservation -- Government policy
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Indexed Term Agriculture
United States of America
Farming industry
National Agricultural Lands Study
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Added Author Baden, John.
Political Economy Research Center.
Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN 9780700630707
0700630708
0700602534
9780700602537
Standard No. AU@ 000068651523

 
    
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