Simon, Julian L.; Sudman, Seymour - In: International Regional Science Review 7 (1982) 3, pp. 257-272
The National Agricultural Lands Study (NALS), using data prepared by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), has estimated that between 1967 and 1977 two to three million acres annually have been shifted from farmland to urban uses and water. This paper argues that the underlying data have not been...
