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Land Use Projections Under Alternative Policies: A Transition Matrix Approach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2017
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As a result of accelerated growth during the past decade, land use change over time and its accompanying problems represents a policy area germane to New Hampshire. Accurate projections of the future pattern of land use would be helpful to decision makers responsible for land use policy. Such projections could assist policy makers either directly in formulating land use plans or indirectly in justifying the need (or lack of need) for overt land use planning. Future projections, based upon various alternative land use policy scenarios, will increase the quantitative supply of information to decision makers in a two-fold manner. First, such estimates provide an insight into the current trend in land use mix and, secondly, give an overview of what impacts various policies directly have upon land use change.
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- Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 87 - 99
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- Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
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This paper relates to research funded under NE-125 entitled, “Socioeconomic Factors and Rural Land Use.” New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Scientific Contribution No. 980.
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