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Economic values at the fringe: Land use and forestry in the wildland-urban interface
| Author: |
Marcouiller, D.W. |
| Date: |
2005 |
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In: Vince, S.W.; Duryea, M.L.; Macie, E.A.; Hermansen, L.A., eds. Forests at the wildland-urban interface: conservation and management. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC. 17 p. Chapter 4. |
| Abstract: |
The role of economics at the wildland-urban interface supplants other theoretical constructs associated with forested land-use change. There are no silvicultural or environmental theories that explain forest clearing for residential purposes. These are clearly anthropocentric phenomena explained by human-driven economic pressures. To understand land-use change, one must delve into the social sciences that explain macrointeractions between humans and their environment. This chapter is written to help the reader distinguish and separate alternative economic concepts of land and land-based resources such as productive use value, speculative development value, and amenity value. An appreciation for the more comprehensive set of values associated with land and land-based resources more completely captures the essence of this rather dramatic phenomenon of rapid land-use change. |
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