Development at the urban fringe and beyond: Impacts on agriculture and rural land

RE Heimlich, WD Anderson - 2001 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Land development in the United States is following two routes: expansion of urban areas
and large-lot development (greater than 1 acre per house) in rural areas. Urban expansion …

[BOOK][B] Wetlands and agriculture: Private interests and public benefits

RE Heimlich - 1998 - books.google.com
Society has recently increased the value it places on the services that wetlands provide,
including water quality improvement, flood control, wildlife habitat, and recreation. However, …

Agricultural adaptation to urbanization: Farm types in northeast metropolitan areas

RE Heimlich, CH Barnard - Northeastern journal of agricultural and …, 1992 - cambridge.org
Metropolitan agriculture is not homogeneous. This paper delves beneath metropolitan county
averages using data on individual farms in the Northeast classified into three statistically …

Land use and demographic change: results from fast-growth counties

M Vesterby, RE Heimlich - Land Economics, 1991 - JSTOR
Population deconcentration has been the primary force shaping changes in urban land use
in the United States since World War II (Long and DeAre 1983). The rate, causes, and effects …

Metropolitan agriculture: Farming in the city's shadow

RE Heimlich - Journal of the American Planning Association, 1989 - Taylor & Francis
Metropolitan areas officially defined by the US Census Bureau now encompass 16 percent
of land area in the United States, including 29 percent of all farms and almost 20 percent of …

Farm resource regions

RE Heimlich - 2000 - ideas.repec.org
ERS recently constructed a new set of regions depicting geographic specialization in production
of US farm commodities. ERS will use the new regions to display results of its analyses …

Metropolitan growth and agriculture: Farming in the city's shadow

RE Heimlich, DH Brooks - 1989 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Farmland acreage in metropolitan counties rose by nearly half between 1974 and 1982 as
metropolitan areas were redefined and additional counties were designated as metro. Metro …

Costs of an agricultural wetland reserve

RE Heimlich - Land Economics, 1994 - JSTOR
The Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 included a Wetland Reserve
Program (WRP). Eligibility and costs for wetland restoration were estimated using data from …

[BOOK][B] Productivity and erodibility of US cropland

RE Heimlich - 1989 - books.google.com
Soil erosion policy aiming to remove highly erodible land from production to reduce soil
erosion may be dealing with some of the most productive and valuable US cropland. If so, …

[PDF][PDF] Estimating greenhouse gas emissions from soy-based US biodiesel when factoring in emissions from land use change

TD Searchinger, RE Heimlich - 2008 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Lifecycle greenhouse gas calculations for biofuels have traditionally focused on engineering
calculations of emissions from the production process. They have carefully analyzed the …