Land use change is one of the most pervasive socioeconomic forces affecting ecological systems, economic systems, and human wellbeing. This Oxford Handbook draws on recent advances in several economic fields that investigate land use behavior, making this a must-read for those who want to understand the frontier of land economics.

• List of Contributors


• Foreword - Daniel W. Bromley


• Preface - Joshua M. Duke and JunJie Wu


• Introduction: Land as an Integrating Theme in Economics - Joshua M. Duke and JunJie Wu


• PART I. DETERMINANTS AND DRIVERS OF LAND USE CHANGE


• 1. Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics


• Mark D. Partridge and Dan S. Rickman


• 2. Technology Adoption and Land Use


• David Zilberman, Madhu Khanna, Scott Kaplan, and Eunice Kim


• 3. Are Large Metropolitan Areas Still Viable?


• Edwin S. Mills


• 4. Modeling the Land Use Change with Biofuels


• Madhu Khanna, David Zilberman, and Christine L. Crago


• 5. Modeling the Determinants of Farmland Values in the U.S.


• Cynthia J. Nickerson and Wendong Zhang


• 6. Land Use and Sustainable Economic Development: Developing World


• Edward B. Barbier


• PART II. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF LAND USE AND LAND USE CHANGE


• 7. The Economics of Wildlife Conservation


• David J. Lewis and Erik Nelson


• 8. Connecting Ecosystem Services to Land Use: Implications for Valuation and Policy


• Robert J. Johnston, Stephen K. Swallow, Dana Marie Bauer, Emi Uchida, and Christopher M. Anderson


• 9. Land Use and Climate Change


• Bruce A. McCarl, Witsanu Attavanich, Mark Musumba, Jianhong E. Mu, and Ruth Aisabokhae


• 10. Land Use, Climate Change, and Ecosystem Services


• Witsanu Attavanich, Benjamin S. Rashford, Richard M. Adams, and Bruce A. McCarl


• 11. Fire: An Agent and a Consequence of Land Use Change


• Claire A. Montgomery


• 12. Land Use and Municipal Profiles


• Edward Stone and JunJie Wu


• PART III. METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS


• 13. An Assessment of Empirical Methods for Modeling Land Use


• Elena G. Irwin and Douglas Wrenn


• 14. Equilibrium Sorting Models of Land Use and Residential Choice


• H. Allen Klaiber and Nicolai V. Kuminoff


• 15. Landscape Simulations with Econometric-Based Land-Use Models


• Andrew J. Plantinga and David J. Lewis


• 16. An Economic Perspective on Agent-Based Models of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change


• Dawn Cassandra Parker


• 17. Spatial Econometric Modeling of Land Use Change


• Seong-Hoon Cho, Seung Gyu Kim, and Roland K. Roberts


• 18. Using Quasi-Experimental Methods to Evaluate Land Policies: Application to Maryland's Priority Funding Legislation


• Charles Towe, Rebecca Lewis, and Lori Lynch


• 19. Applying Experiments to Land Economics: Public Information and Auction Efficiency in Ecosystem Service Markets


• Kent D. Messer, Joshua M. Duke, and Lori Lynch


• PART IV. THE ECONOMICS OF LAND USE LAW AND POLICY


• 20. Open Space Preservation: Direct Controls and Fiscal Incentives


• Ekaterina Gnedenko and Dennis Heffley


• 21. Land Conservation in the United States


• Jeffrey Ferris and Lori Lynch


• 22. European Agri-Environmental Policy: The Conservation and Re-Creation of Cultural Landscapes


• Ian Hodge


• 23. Agri-Environmental Policies: A Comparison of U.S. and E.U. Experiences


• Roger Claassen, Joseph Cooper, Cristina Salvioni, and Marcella Veronesi


• 24. Stigmatized Sites and Urban Brownfield Redevelopment


• Joel B. Eisen


• 25. Regulatory Takings


• Thomas J. Miceli and Kathleen Segerson


• 26. Eminent Domain and the Land Assembly Problem


• Joshua M. Duke


• 27. Future Research Directions in Land Economics


• Joshua M. Duke and JunJie Wu

Joshua M. Duke is Professor of Natural Resource Management in the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics at the University of Delaware. He has joint appointments in the Department of Economics, the Legal Studies Program, and the Marine Science and Policy Program. During an exchange, he was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Law at the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra, Slovakia. His research areas include land use economics, analysis of agri-environmental policy, law and economics of the environment, and property rights. He has published more than 40 refereed journal articles, chapters, and law reviews. Previously, he was editor (with Titus Awokuse) of Agricultural and Resource Economics Review.
JunJie Wu is the Emery N. Castle Professor of Resource and Rural Economics at Oregon State University. He is a University Fellow at Resources for the Future; a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, UK; and a Chang-Jiang Visiting Professor at Renmin University of China. His research areas include the optimal design of agri-environmental policy, spatial modeling of land use change, and regional disparities in economic development. He has published more than 70 refereed journal articles and has received several awards for quality research, including the American Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Research Discovery Award.