Private property in land gives agricultural producers a presumptive claim to certain policies
that may be more costly than necessary, and may not achieve their intended results. In this …

The two questions to be addressed here are:(a) Why is an institutional perspective on
natural resource problems worthy of serious consideration by economists? And (b) what is …

Thirty years after it first captured public attention, farmland preservation in North America
remains a contentious issue which has failed to mature into an integrated element of rural …

First published in 1993. The broad objective of this book is to describe and explain the
contemporary geography of agriculture in developed market economies. The objective has …

While I have dedicated this book to my parents, I want to begin the acknowledgments by
thanking my wife, Susan, and our incredible children, Abigail and Warren. I am certain there …

The approach adopted towards environmental management in the rural context is different
from that in the urban context in that the first is generally based on voluntary controls …

The recent decision to continue cattle grazing in the VANP has not been uniformly
welcomed. There exists significant scientific evidence detailing the environmental impact of …

Anthony Trollope, who wrote the above description of the lives of the pastoralists on the
Darling Downs when he travelled there in the 1870s, was clearly impressed by the freedom …

The objectives of this downstream perspective and assessment of the economics of
sustainable agriculture are:(1) to explain to a general audience (broader than economists) …

This chapter examines the factors of production in more detail so as to reveal the roles in
shaping the geography of agriculture in developed market economies and focuses on three …