Oxford Handbook of Land Economics (Hardcover)

List of Contributors; Foreword - Daniel W. Bromley; Preface - Joshua M. Duke and JunJie Wu; Introduction: Land as an Integrating Theme in Economics - Joshua M. Duke and JunJie Wu; PART I. DETERMINANTS AND DRIVERS OF LAND USE CHANGE; 1. Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics; Mark D. Partridge and Dan S. Rickman; 2. Technology Adoption and Land Use; David Zilberman, Madhu Khanna, Scott Kaplan, and Eunice Kim; 3. Are Large Metropolitan Areas Still Viable?; Edwin S. Mills; 4. Modeling the Land Use Change with Biofuels; Madhu Khanna, David Zilberman, and Christine L. Crago; 5. Modeling the Determinants of Farmland Values in the U.S.; Cynthia J. Nickerson and Wendong Zhang; 6. Land Use and Sustainable Economic Development: Developing World; Edward B. Barbier; PART II. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF LAND USE AND LAND USE CHANGE; 7. The Economics of Wildlife Conservation; David J. Lewis and Erik Nelson; 8. Connecting Ecosystem Services to Land Use: Implications for Valuation and Policy; Robert J. Johnston, Stephen K. Swallow, Dana Marie Bauer, Emi Uchida, and Christopher M. Anderson; 9. Land Use and Climate Change; Bruce A. McCarl, Witsanu Attavanich, Mark Musumba, Jianhong E. Mu, and Ruth Aisabokhae; 10. Land Use, Climate Change, and Ecosystem Services; Witsanu Attavanich, Benjamin S. Rashford, Richard M. Adams, and Bruce A. McCarl; 11. Fire: An Agent and a Consequence of Land Use Change; Claire A. Montgomery; 12. Land Use and Municipal Profiles; Edward Stone and JunJie Wu; PART III. METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; 13. An Assessment of Empirical Methods for Modeling Land Use; Elena G. Irwin and Douglas Wrenn; 14. Equilibrium Sorting Models of Land Use and Residential Choice; H. Allen Klaiber and Nicolai V. Kuminoff; 15. Landscape Simulations with Econometric-Based Land-Use Models; Andrew J. Plantinga and David J. Lewis; 16. An Economic Perspective on Agent-Based Models of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change; Dawn Cassandra Parker; 17. Spatial Econometric Modeling of Land Use Change; Seong-Hoon Cho, Seung Gyu Kim, and Roland K. Roberts; 18. Using Quasi-Experimental Methods to Evaluate Land Policies: Application to Maryland's Priority Funding Legislation; Charles Towe, Rebecca Lewis, and Lori Lynch; 19. Applying Experiments to Land Economics: Public Information and Auction Efficiency in Ecosystem Service Markets; Kent D. Messer, Joshua M. Duke, and Lori Lynch; PART IV. THE ECONOMICS OF LAND USE LAW AND POLICY; 20. Open Space Preservation: Direct Controls and Fiscal Incentives; Ekaterina Gnedenko and Dennis Heffley; 21. Land Conservation in the United States; Jeffrey Ferris and Lori Lynch; 22. European Agri-Environmental Policy: The Conservation and Re-Creation of Cultural Landscapes; Ian Hodge; 23. Agri-Environmental Policies: A Comparison of U.S. and E.U. Experiences; Roger Claassen, Joseph Cooper, Cristina Salvioni, and Marcella Veronesi; 24. Stigmatized Sites and Urban Brownfield Redevelopment; Joel B. Eisen; 25. Regulatory Takings; Thomas J. Miceli and Kathleen Segerson; 26. Eminent Domain and the Land Assembly Problem; Joshua M. Duke; 27. Future Research Directions in Land Economics; Joshua M. Duke and JunJie Wu