Economic evaluation of agricultural land to assess land use changes

Land Use Policy

Volumn 56, Issue , 2016, Pages 125-146

  Ustaoglu, E ^a   Perpina Castillo C ^a   Jacobs Crisioni, C ^a   Lavalle, C ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agricultural land valuation; EU countries; Land use changes; Net Present Value

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; LAND EVALUATION; LAND USE CHANGE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84981742581     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.04.020     Document Type: Article

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