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8 sty 2015 · Land economics includes, among others, land use behaviour and policy and is closely related to resource economics, environmental economics, regional science and urban economics. Given the scope and the diversity of these topics, the statement of the book editors, Jusha M. Duke and Junjie Wu, that ‘this handbook explains what economists know ...
This handbook draws broadly from advances that investigate land use behavior, markets, and policy, showing that land is a theme that integrates several fields of economics. These fields include natural resource economics, environmental economics, regional science, and urban economics.
immense value of land resources highlights the importance of land in the economy and raises critical questions, such as: • Are land resources so valuable because of scarcity? What are the principal sources of this value? • Are current land use practices efficient, i.e., do we always put land to its highest-valued use?
23 sie 2024 · This module provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts in land economics, blending economic theory with an exploration of current land-use practices and their environmental impacts.
1 sty 2006 · Land use is an important indicator of tensions between the economic system and the environment: first, productive land is a good approximation for natural capital. Second, ecosystem productivity is governed by primary production, which principally depends on land use.
This chapter presents five prominent trends in land economics: advanced theory for spatially explicit structural modeling; advanced methods to understand and uncover agents’ land use behavior; integrated economic and ecological modeling; advances in using incomplete or inconsistent data; and overcoming information challenges in policy design.
The role of land in economic theory is surveyed, both from a conceptual and historical perspective. Land has been incorporated in economic theories in various ways. Originally, land...
