Week 7 (2/27): Land Use Policy & Economics

Presenter: Patrick Archie, PhD Student, ESPM (tentative)

Topic: Agricultural Land Trusts (Case Study: Marin, Sonoma, Napa)

Heimlich, Ralph E. and William D. Anderson. 2001. Development at the Urban Fringe and Beyond: Impacts on Agriculture and Rural Land. AER-803. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Leichenko, Robin M. and William Solecki. 2005. Exporting the American Dream: Globalization of Suburban Consumption Landscapes. Regional Studies 39(2):241-253.

Gordon, Peter and Harry Richardson. 1998. Farmland Preservation and Ecological Footprints: A Critique. Planning and Markets 1(1).

Pfeffer. M. J. and M. B. Lapping. 1994. Farmland Preservation, Development Rights, and the Theory of the Growth Machine: The Views of Planners. Journal of Rural Studies 10(3): 233-248.

Bunce, Michael. 1998. Thirty Years of Farmland Preservation in North America: Discourses and Ideologies of a Movement. Journal of Rural Studies 14(2):233-247.

Brabec, Elizabeth, & Chip Smith. 2002. Agricultural land fragmentation: the spatial effects of three land protection strategies in the eastern United States. Landscape and Urban Planning 58:255-268.

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