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What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Ruben N. Lubowski
Andrew J. Plantinga
Robert N. Stavins
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Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in the United States between 1982 and 1997. We quantify the effects of net returns to alternative land uses on private landowners’ decisions to allocate land among six major uses, drawing on detailed micro-data on land use and land quality that are comprehensive of the contiguous United States. This analysis provides the first evidence of the relative historical importance of markets and federal farm policies affecting land-use changes nationally.
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Article provided by University of Wisconsin Press in its journal Land Economics .
Volume (Year): 84 (2008)
Issue (Month): 4 ()
Pages: 529-550
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Paper Robert N. Stavins & Ruben N. Lubowski & Andrew J. Plantinga, 2008.
"What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions ,"
Working Papers
2008.83, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
[Downloadable!] Lubowski, Ruben & Plantinga, Andrew & Stavins, Robert, 2007.
"What Drives Land Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions ,"
Working Paper Series
rwp07-059, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
[Downloadable!] Ruben N. Lubowski & Andrew J. Plantinga & Robert N. Stavins, 2007.
"What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions ,"
NBER Working Papers
13572, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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