Agriculture and the Environment Searching for Greener Pastures

by Anderson, Terry L.; Yandle, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780817999124
• ISBN10: 0817999124
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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
Terry L. Anderson
Bruce Yandle
The Disappearance of Agricultural Land: Fact or Fiction?	1	(24)
Bruce R. Beattie
Land Trusts: A Return to Feudalism	25	(22)
Roger Meiners
Bruce Yandle
Taxation, Free Markets, and the Use of Agricultural Land	47	(18)
Richard E. Wagner
The Political Economy of Land Conversion on the Urban Fringe	65	(16)
Samuel R. Staley
Some Issues Surrounding Land and Chemical Use in Agriculture	81	(24)
B. Delworth Gardner
Biotechnology, Land-Use, and the Environment: Untying the Gordian Knot	105	(28)
Henry I. Miller
To Breed, or Not to Breed? The Question of Endangered Species and Agriculture	133	(36)
Ike C. Sugg
Agriculture and Water Markets	169	(20)
Terry L. Anderson
Clay J. Landry
About the Authors	189	(4)
Index	193