TY - JOUR T1 - Land use planning: A study of farm and city perspectives JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 341 LP - 344 VL - 37 IS - 6 AU - Gordon Bultena AU - Eric Hoiberg AU - Don Albrecht AU - Peter Nowak Y1 - 1982/11/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/37/6/341.abstract N2 - Differences in the land use orientations of farm operators and urbanites in Iowa were tested against the assumption that farmers have relatively stronger opposition to land use planning than do urbanites. Information was obtained in 1980 from statewide samples of farmers and residents of metropolitan areas. These groups were compared in (a) their perceptions of the severity of some land use problems in the state, (b) their receptivity to spending tax monies on these problems, and (c) their attitudes toward expanded governmental involvement in land use planning. Two explanations of the assumed farm-urban differences also were tested: first, that they grow out of the differential ages and socioeconomic statuses of farm and city residents and, second, that they are a function of a more exploitive attitude of farmers toward nature. As predicted, farmers differed significantly from urbanites in being less concerned about land use problems, less committed to public expenditures on land use matters, and in wanting to restrict public initiatives on land use matters to local government. These attitudes were not explained by farm-city differences in the respondents' ages, socioeconomic statuses, or environmental orientations. ER -