Competition-based environmental policy: An analysis of farmland preservation in Maryland

Land Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 555-575

  Horowitz, John K ^a   Lych, Lori ^a   Stocking, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LAND USE; MODELING;

MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350560584     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.85.4.555     Document Type: Article

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