Land use and resource issues in the new West -- Development patterns and prototypes -- A geographic land use digest -- Convergent problems, divergent solutions -- The takings issue as a challenge to growth management -- A rational model for comprehensive land use planning

Intro -- Title page -- Table of content -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Natural Land -- 2 Profiles -- Part II Degraded Land -- 3 Functions -- 4 Properties -- 5 Erosion -- 6 Chemical degradation -- 7 Physical degradation -- Part III Remediating Land -- 8 Investigation -- 9 Remediation --...

Tradable development rights (TDR) are discussed as a mechanism to reduce land consumption while ensuring an efficient implementation of profitable building projects. We present a novel laboratory experiment on the feasibility of TDR and simulate the acquisition and trading of development rights....