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Protection of Agricultural Land: An Institutionalist Perspective

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  • Hite, J. C.
  • Dillman, B. L.

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For a long time, the consensus of old farmers sitting around crossroads stores has been that, sooner or later, America is going to run out of agricultural land because of all the houses, shopping centers, and highways that are spreading out onto the nation's cropland. And for years, such observations have been summarily dismissed as the ravings of ignorant men with too much time on their hands. Yet in the last half of the 1970s, a significant part of the educated elite in the United States began to suspect that those old farmers just might be correct. The farm press began to run articles concerning the loss of prime agricultural land to urban sprawl (Johnson); some of the more prestigious national journals appealing to educated laymen began to publish articles on the subject (Blundell); and even general circulation newspapers that seldom deign to print anything other than stories on political corruption or murder and mayhem devoted space to feature-length articles warning of the loss of cropland to non-agricultural uses (Burnside).

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  • Hite, J. C. & Dillman, B. L., 1981. "Protection of Agricultural Land: An Institutionalist Perspective," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(1), pages 43-53, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:13:y:1981:i:01:p:43-53_02
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    1. Bergstrom, John, 1999. "Exploring and Expanding the Landscape Values Terrain," Western Region Archives 321704, Western Region - Western Extension Directors Association (WEDA).
    2. Bergstrom, John C., 1998. "Exploring And Expanding The Landscape Values Terrain," Faculty Series 16653, University of Georgia, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
    3. Bergstrom, John C. & Dillman, B.L. & Stoll, John R., 1985. "Public Environmental Amenity Benefits Of Private Land: The Case Of Prime Agricultural Land," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 17(1), pages 1-11, July.
    4. Hudecová, Ľubica & Kyseľ, Peter, 2023. "Legislative protection of agricultural land," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    5. Kurowska, Krystyna & Kryszk, Hubert & Marks-Bielska, Renata & Mika, Monika & Leń, Przemysław, 2020. "Conversion of agricultural and forest land to other purposes in the context of land protection: Evidence from Polish experience," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    6. B. L. Dillman & Charles F. Cousins, 1982. "Urban Encroachment on Prime Agricultural Land: A Case Study," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 7(3), pages 285-292, December.
    7. Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO, 2015. "National Land Use Policy: Protecting Prime Agricultural Lands," Working Papers id:7083, eSocialSciences.
    8. Bergstrom, John C., 2001. "Postproductivism And Rural Land Values," Faculty Series 16689, University of Georgia, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
    9. Rosenberger, Randall S. & Walsh, Richard G., 1997. "Nonmarket Value Of Western Valley Ranchland Using Contingent Valuation," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 22(2), pages 1-14, December.

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