Economic impacts of shifting sloping farm lands to alternative uses

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 48-55

  Liao, Xianchun ^a   Zhang, Yaoqi ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic impacts; Faustmann model; Land expectation value; Land uses; Slope land conversion program

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; ORCHARD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE FARMING; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TAX SYSTEM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

CITRUS;

EID: 41049099521     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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