Papers from a conference sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-353) and index.

Contemporary land use problems and conflicts / Stephan J. Goetz, James S. Shortle and John C. Bergstrom -- Rural land use problems an d policy options: overview from a US perspective / Lawrence W. Libby -- Land use problems: a European perspective / Nick D. Hanley an d Fiona Watson -- Employment growth, population growth and electroni c technologies as determinants of land use / Charles Barnard -- F ailing markets and fragile institutions in land use: Colorado's experie nce / Andrew F. Seidl -- Postproductivism and changing rural land use values and preferences / John C. Bergstrom -- Urban developm ent impacts on ecosystems / Elizabeth P. Marhsall and James S. Short le -- Urban growth, rural land conversion and the fiscal well-being of local municipalities / Steven Deller -- Sense of place as an i ntegrated framework for understanding human impacts of land use change / Richard C. Stedman -- Socioeconomic and health outcomes of land use / Stephan J. Goetz -- Spatial analysis and applied land use research / Kathleen P. Bell -- Public preferences for farmland at tributes in conservation easement programs / Robert W. Paterson,...[ et al.] -- Value conflict and land use planning: an example at the r ural-urban interface / Max J. Pfeffer,...[et al.] -- The impacts of land use on nearby property values: estimates from a hedonic house p rice model / Richard C. Ready and Charles W. Abdalla -- Agri-envi ronmental complementaries: challenges and opportunities in an old world / Ian Hodge -- Multifuncitionality, land use and agricultural po licy / David Abler -- Sprawl: contemporary land use planning's pa radigm / Mark B. Lapping -- The smart growth approach to urban la nd use: implications for farmland protection / Alvin D. Sokolow -- Protecting farmland: why do we do it? Can we do it better? / Lor i Lynch -- What would an ideal Federal rural land use policy look li ke? / Thomas Johnson -- Future research needs for rational land u se decisions / Stephan J. Goetz, James S. Shortle and John C. Bergst rom.