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Vanishing Farmland Crisis: Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land
by Vanishing Farmland Crisis: Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land
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The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen as endangered--and as the direct prelude to a nation-wide shortage of both food and fiber. The NALS report, to which eleven federal agencies contributed, argued that land-use planning and control must be employed to protect valuable farmland from "urban sprawl."
First published in 1984, this collection of essays by a distinguished group of economists, including Theodore W. Schultz, Julian L. Simon, and Pierre Crosson, takes issue with the belief that croplands need governmental protection. Rather, the collection as a whole supports two theses: 1) shrinking farm acreage is not a serious problem, and 2) individual choices by landowners in a free market setting result in better-organized land use than would governmental land-use planning and regulation.
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- University Press of Kansa Brand
- Oct 8, 2021 Pub Date:
- 9780700631384 ISBN-13:
- 0700631380 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 184.0 pages Paperback
- 9 in * 0.38 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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