Title Agriculture and the environment : searching for greener pastures / edited by Terry L. Anderson and Bruce Yandle

Published Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, [2001] ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations Series Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 483 Hoover Institution Press publication ; 483. Contents The disappearance of agricultural land: fact or fiction? / Bruce R. Beattie -- Land trusts: a return to feudalism / Roger Meiners and Bruce Yandle -- Taxation, free markets, and the use of agricultural land / Richard E. Wagner -- The political economy of land conversion on the urban fringe / Samuel R. Staley -- Some issues surrounding land and chemical use in agriculture / B. Delworth Gardner -- Biotechnology, land-use, and the environment: untying the Gordian knot / Henry I. Miller -- To breed, or not to breed? The question of endangered species and agriculture / Ike C. Sugg -- Agriculture and water markets / Terry L. Anderson and Clay J. Landry Summary The authors focus on the major environmental constraints that limit U.S. food production without necessarily improving environmental quality. Each chapter documents a specific issue, discusses the regulatory response, and offers ideas for reform Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Agricultural ecology -- United States Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- United States Land use, Rural -- United States. NATURE -- Ecology. NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness. SCIENCE -- Environmental Science. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy. Agricultural ecology Agriculture -- Environmental aspects Land use, Rural Landwirtschaft Umweltschutz Aufsatzsammlung Bodennutzung United States USA Form Electronic book Author Anderson, Terry L. (Terry Lee), 1946- Yandle, Bruce. ISBN 9780817999186 0817999183 9780817999162 0817999167

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