Are agricultural land preservation programs self-financing?

Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 149-169

  Geoghegan, Jacqueline ^a,b   Lynch, Lori ^c   Bucholtz, Shawn J ^d  

^a Department of Economics ^*  (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

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EID: 72149107152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781936331659     Document Type: Chapter

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