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Date published:
July 1, 2005
Publication type:
Working paper

 Ming Chien Lo and Mark D. Partridge

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Date published:
April 19, 2005
Publication type:
Working paper

Mark D. Partridge and Dan S. Rickman

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Date published:
January 1, 2005
Publication type:
Working paper

Mark D. Partridge and Dan S. Rickman. Forthcoming in Applied Economics.

Date published:
December 1, 2004
Publication type:
Policy brief

The Office of Farmland Preservation (OFP) of the Ohio Department of Agriculture(ODA) requested a regional analysis of the applicant data for the Agricultural EasementPurchase Program (AEPP).

Date published:
December 1, 2004
Publication type:
Policy brief

As primary conveyors of water in the Lake Erie watershed, agricultural drainage ditches play a role in the identified problem of high levels of agricultural sediment loading in Lake Erie.

Date published:
November 5, 2004
Publication type:
Policy brief

People at the interface between rural and urban places are increasingly at odds over how resources will be used. There are disputes over the mix of services (and dis-services) that flow from the land and water and over the rules that govern how and by whom the mix is determined.

Date published:
October 24, 2004
Publication type:
Policy brief

The many products of animal agriculture are important to American consumers of that there can be no question. Effective demand for meat and other animal products increases with income and is often used as an indicator of economic improvement for a population.

Date published:
May 12, 2004
Publication type:
Policy brief

This workshop is the final one in a four workshop series on the general theme of agroenvironmental policy issues in the Great Lakes Region. This series was supported by a grant from the U.S.

Date published:
November 13, 2003
Publication type:
Policy brief

Farmland protection policy in the U.S. is not a uniform, coherent national effort, but an assemblage of disparate state and local programs. Authority to guide or control land use change has been delegated by Congress to the states, and from there to local governments in most states.

Date published:
April 1, 2003
Publication type:
Policy brief

Local governments throughout Ohio are seeking ways to guide development and protect open land, including working farmland.  The most recent addition to the list of policy instruments is the Agricultural Easement Purchase Program administered by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.

Date published:
January 1, 2003
Publication type:
Policy brief

Paving and developing open land have many obvious impacts on water. First, impervious cover essentially eliminates the groundwater recharge service that land can perform. Land is both conduit and filter for water returning to the aquifer for further use.

Date published:
January 1, 2003
Publication type:
Policy brief

This paper seeks to explain variations in the prices offered to farmers for the sale of their development rights in 12 of the states currently participating in the Farmland Protection Program (FPP) under the 1996 Farm Bill.

Date published:
May 9, 2002
Publication type:
Policy brief

This is the third of fi ve annual workshops on the general theme of agro-environmental policy issues in the Great Lakes Region. The series is underwritten by a grant from the U.S.

Date published:
January 1, 2002
Publication type:
Policy brief

The purchase power of governments is fundamental to land policy change in the U.S. The power to acquire certain land services augments the powers to regulate and tax as state and local units respond to the public demand to retain undeveloped land for the various services it provides.

Date published:
January 1, 2002
Publication type:
Policy brief

One of the most valuable "sticks" in the fee simple bundle of rights commonly known as "private property" is the right to develop that land (Lindstrom, 2000).

Date published:
October 11, 2001
Publication type:
Policy brief

The purpose of this paper is to consider how economics as a social science may help organize our  thinking about farmland protection policy in the U.S.

Date published:
September 17, 2001
Publication type:
Policy brief

Traffic congestion is the proverbial “rain on the parade” of suburbanites headed for work every morning and back to paradise in the evening. Circling “trafficopters” report with CNN-like urgency of another accident on the north side, backing up traffic for miles.

Date published:
September 5, 2001
Publication type:
Policy brief

This conference focuses on one category of policy tools - regulations. Speakers are policy researchers and agency leaders.

Date published:
September 1, 2001
Publication type:
Policy brief

By Jeff S. Sharp and Jason W. Reece

Date published:
August 1, 2001
Publication type:
Policy brief

By incorporating the spatially arrangement of counties relative to each other, this paper uses a land use share model to investigate the possibility that the allocation of land use in one county could be influenced by not only the degree to which the county is zoned, but also the degree to which

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