Agriculture and the environment : searching for greener pastures /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anderson, Terry L. (Terry Lee), 1946-, Yandle, Bruce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, [2001]
Colección:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 483.
Temas:
Agricultural ecology > United States.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects > United States.
Land use, Rural > United States.
Écologie agricole > États-Unis.
Agriculture > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis.
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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