The economics and externalities of agricultural land in the urban fringe

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dc.contributor.authorStobbe, Tracy
dc.contributor.supervisorvan Kooten, G. Cornelis
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-08T22:19:19Z
dc.date.available2008-08-08T22:19:19Z
dc.date.copyright2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-08-08T22:19:19Z
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Economicsen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe preservation of agricultural land, especially that which lies close to cities (in the so-called urban fringe), is a concern in many jurisdictions around the world. Agricultural land values change dramatically as farmland is located nearer to urban areas and development pressure has increased on these lands as urban populations have expanded. In British Columbia, Canada, a provincial-wide zoning system forbids the development or non-agricultural use of land without special permission. This system is explicitly designed to protect the capability of the land to produce food in the future, but it also implicitly protects the positive spillovers from agricultural land such as environmental services and open space. Three empirical papers comprise the original research in this dissertation. They seek to answer related questions about agricultural land values in the urban fringe. First, a statistical investigation is conducted into the factors that are associated with successful applications for exclusion from the agricultural zoning system. This study finds that a measure of distance (metres from the main highway) is highly significantly correlated with a parcel’s chances of being excluded. Next, a paper examines the trend of hobby farmers springing up in the urban fringe. Two different models seek to illuminate common trends in the types of parcels that hobby farmers choose, and the price that hobby farmers pay for the land, respectively. This study finds that hobby farmers seem to be very selective about the parcels they choose, likely trying to take advantage of favourable taxation rates for agricultural producers in place in the province. Lastly, a study seeks to understand how residential parcels’ values are influenced by the nearness to and view of agricultural land. Agricultural land in the study does not appear to exhibit an open space premium, though this could be influenced by uncertainty about the future use of the land. All the empirical work in this dissertation utilizes geographic information systems (GIS) technology that allows the calculation of distances to features of interest. Hedonic pricing models and binary choice models are the main statistical tools used.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1055
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectAgricultural landen_US
dc.subjecteconomicsen_US
dc.subjectgeographyen_US
dc.subjectGISen_US
dc.subjectexternalitiesen_US
dc.subjectpublic goodsen_US
dc.subjecturban fringeen_US
dc.subjectfarmlanden_US
dc.subjectregional economicsen_US
dc.subjectenvironmenten_US
dc.subjectrent theoryen_US
dc.subjecthistory of economic thoughten_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Economics::Agriculture--Economic aspectsen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Economics::Economics--Historyen_US
dc.titleThe economics and externalities of agricultural land in the urban fringeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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