Agriculture and the environment : searching for greener pastures / edited by Terry L. Anderson and Bruce Yandle.
Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2001.Description: x, 198 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:- 0817999124 (alk. paper : pbk.)
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Table of contents
1. The disappearance of agricultural land: fact of fiction? 1
2. Land trusts: A return to feudalism 25
3. Taxation, free markets, and the use of agricultural land 47
4. The political economy of land conversion on the urban fringe 65
5. Some issues surrounding land and chemical use in agriculture 81
6. Biotechnology, land-use and the environment untying the gordian knot 105
7. To breed, or not to breed? the question of endangered species and agriculture 133
8. Agriculture and water markets 169
About the authors 189
Index 193
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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