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The present paper studies the land use change impacts of fuels and biofuels. We test the theoretical hypothesis, which says that changes in fuel prices cause changes in land use both directly and indirectly and, because of price inter-dependencies, biofuels reinforce the land use change impacts....
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The U.S. population is becoming increasingly urban and has gradually shifted to the south and west. Policy restrictions have played a role in preventing dynamic areas expanding, and when they do expand it can be through low-density housing sprawl. Land use restrictions and a sluggish housing...
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Following popular discourse, we abuse economic terminology by defining the "housing shortage" in the United States as the difference between the number of homes that would be built in the absence of supply constraints and the actual number of homes. The magnitude of the housing shortage is...
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. Nearly all had recent experience with a tropical storm or hurricane and had hurricane plans in place. About half teach … hurricane preparedness to students and 85 % train staff members in hurricane preparedness. Sources of information about cyclone … threats were the National Hurricane Center (91 %), local television news (74 %), The Weather Channel (67 %), and the internet …
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