The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics

What do economists know about land-and how they know? The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics describes the latest developments in the fields of economics that examine land, including natural resource economics, environmental economics, regional science, and urban economics. The handbook argues, first, that land is a theme that integrates these fields and second, that productive integration increasingly occurs not just within economics but also across disciplines. Greater recognition and integration stimulates cross-fertilization among the fields of land economics research. By providing a comprehensive survey of land-related work in several economics fields, this handbook provides the basic tools needed for economists to redefine the scope and focus of their work to better incorporate the contemporary thinking from other fields and to push out the frontiers of land economics. The first section presents recent advances in the analysis of major drivers of land use change, focusing on economic development and various land-use markets. The second section presents economic research on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of land use and land use change. The third section addresses six cutting-edge approaches for land economics research, including spatial econometric, simulation, and experimental methods. The section also includes a synthetic chapter critically reviewing methodological advances. The fourth section covers policy issues. Four chapters disentangle the economics of land conservation and preservation, while three chapters examine the economic analysis of the legal institutions of land use. These chapters focus on law and economic problems of permissible government control of land in the U.S. context.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