Land use with heterogeneous land quality: An application of an area base model

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 299-310

  Hardie, Ian W ^a   Parks, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Farmland; Forest; Hedonic; Land quality; Land rent; Land use; Multinomial logit; Southeast

Indexed keywords

LAND USE PLANNING; LOGIT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PLANNING METHOD; RURAL PLANNING;

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EID: 0031413562     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244131     Document Type: Article

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