Agriculture and the environment : searching for greener pastures /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2001.
Description:	x, 198 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 483 Hoover Institution Press publication ; 483.
Subject:	Agricultural ecology -- United States. Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- United States. Land use, Rural -- United States. Agricultural ecology. Agriculture -- Environmental aspects. Land use, Rural. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4537170

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Other authors / contributors:	Anderson, Terry L. (Terry Lee), 1946- Yandle, Bruce.
ISBN:	0817999124 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
1. The Disappearance of Agricultural Land: Fact or Fiction?
2. Land Trusts: A Return to Feudalism
3. Taxation, Free Markets, and the Use of Agricultural Land
4. The Political Economy of Land Conversion on the Urban Fringe
5. Some Issues Surrounding Land and Chemical Use in Agriculture
6. Biotechnology, Land-Use, and the Environment: Untying the Gordian Knot
7. To Breed, or Not to Breed? The Question of Endangered Species and Agriculture
8. Agriculture and Water Markets
About the Authors
Index

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