Land Use Problems and Conflicts

James S. Shortle, John C. Bergstrom, Stephen J Goetz

• 1: Contemporary land use problems and conflicts; 1: Land use problems and conflicts; 2: Rural land use problems and policy options; 3: Land use problems; 4: Employment growth, population growth and electronic technologies as determinants of land use; 5: Failing markets and fragile institutions in land use; 6: Postproductivism and changing rural land use values and preferences; 2: A closer look at consequences of land use problems and conflicts; 7: Urban development impacts on ecosystems; 8: Urban growth, rural land conversion and the fiscal well-being of local municipalities; 9: Sense of place as an integrated framework for understanding human impacts of land use change; 10: Socioeconomic and health outcomes of land use; 3: Data and empirical issues; 11: Spatial analysis and applied land use research; 12: Public preferences for farmland attributes in conservation easement programs 1; 13: Value conflict and land use planning; 14: The impacts of land use on nearby property values; 4: A closer look at solutions to land use problems and conflicts; 15: Agri-environmental complementarities; 16: Multifunctionality, land use and agricultural policy; 17: Sprawl; 18: The smart growth approach to urban land use; 19: Protecting farmland; 20: What would an ideal Federal rural land use policy look like?; 21: Future research needs for rational land use decisions