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Conservation land acquisition lists and nearby property values: evidence from the Florida Forever programme

Beal-Hodges, Mary - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 114 (2012) 1

Agencies throughout the world are implementing plans to preserve open spaces. The demand to preserve open space is often justified based on the value of the amenities associated with the land. However, many times open space is valued most for what it is not: the absence of negative externalities...

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Welfare and Biodiversity Tradeoffs in Urban Open Space Protection

Tajibaeva, Liaila; Haight, Robert; Stephen, Polasky - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

In this paper, we analyze the optimal spatial pattern of open space and residential development in an urban model that includes provision of both local and global public goods. In our model, households choose where to live based on land prices, proximity to employment, and amenity values that...

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THE ECONOMICS OF LAND-ZONING

Goetz, Renan-Ulrich; Zilberman, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2000

be complemented by land-zoning or land-use taxes. We compare the efficiency of different spatial environmental policies … such as land-use taxes or land zoning. The necessary changes required to transform a spatially optimal, yet static …

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Markets for Development Rights: Lessons Learned from Three Decades of a TDR Program

Walls, Margaret - 2012

by baseline zoning regulations. This paper summarizes the economics literature on TDRs and describes a long …

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Land markets and land market regulation : progress towards understanding

Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available. In the light of this review we then identify...

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Théorie économique de la ville discontinue

Pouyanne, Guillaume - In: Revue d'économie régionale & urbaine : RERU (2014) 4, pp. 587-611

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Théorie économique de la ville discontinue

Pouyanne, Guillaume - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine novembre (2014) 4, pp. 587-611

Discontinuous (leapfrog) development is a kind of urban sprawl, defined as a lack of continuity in expansion. This …

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Determinants of local housing growth in a multi-jurisdictional region, along with a test for nonmarket zoning

Gottlieb, Paul D.; O’Donnell, Anthony; Rudel, Thomas; … - In: Journal of Housing Economics 21 (2012) 4, pp. 296-309

In the State of New Jersey, two rural preservation tools are paramount: (1) Zoning that sets a floor on the size of …-based test for binding minimum-lot-size zoning, leveraging the fact that the 83 communities are in a single housing market and … excess large-lot zoning, leading to the suppression of short-term housing growth in communities that specialize in this …

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Growth Management Policies for Exurban and Suburban Development: Theory and an Application to Sonoma County, California

Newburn, David A.; Berck, Peter - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 3

This study examines the effectiveness of growth management policies on influencing future patterns of exurban and suburban development. We initially estimate a spatially explicit model of residential development with parcel data in Sonoma County, California. This estimated model is then used to...

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DEVELOPMENT AT THE URBAN FRINGE AND BEYOND: IMPACTS ON AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LAND

Heimlich, Ralph E.; Anderson, William D. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2001

Land development in the United States is following two routes: expansion of urban areas and large-lot development (greater than 1 acre per house) in rural areas. Urban expansion claimed more than 1 million acres per year between 1960 and 1990, yet is not seen as a threat to most farming,...

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