The other side of sprawl: A county-level analysis of farm loss in Florida

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-235

  Basu, Pratyusha ^a   Chakraborty, Jayajit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Farm loss; Florida; Regression; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; LAND USE; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54349106464     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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