Agriculture and the Environment: Searching for Greener Pastures

by Terry L. Anderson (Editor), Bruce Yandle (Editor)

Overview

The authors focus on the major environmental constraints that limit U.S. food production without necessarily improving environmental quality. Each chapter documents a specific issue, discusses the regulatory response, and offers ideas for reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817999124
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Series:	Publication Series , #483
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Terry Anderson, the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the executive director of PERC - the Property and Environment Research Center, a think tank focusing on market solutions to environmental problems located in Bozeman, Montana, and professor emeritus at Montana State University.

Table of Contents

	Prologue	vii
1	The Disappearance of Agricultural Land: Fact or 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