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Land Use Change and Competition in the South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

John E. Reynolds
John E. Reynolds*
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series R-08161
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Abstract

The amount of land in urban and other special uses increased more than 50 percent since the 1960s in the South. Rural land converted to urban uses is directly related to increases in population in the South. Urban land-use coefficients were estimated to provide a measure of the amount of land converted to urban uses per person added to the population base. These coefficients indicate that from 1974 to 1987 two-thirds to three fourths of an acre of land was converted to urban uses for each person added to the population base. At this rate, about 12.6 million acres are expected to be converted to urban use in the South during the next two decades.

Keywords

land use changerural land userural-urban conflicturban land conversion

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , August 2001 , pp. 271 - 281
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2001

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