Demands On Rural Lands

Preface -- Introduction -- Rural Land-Use Analysis and Planning: An Overview -- Some Choices in Rural Resource Management -- Issues in the Use of Rural Lands -- Sustainable Use of Canada's Rural Land Resources: Relating Research to Reality -- The Conflict Between Conservation and Food Production in Great Britain -- Countryside Parks and Multipurpose Use of Rural Resources -- Land-Use Adjustments to Aquifer Depletion in Western Kansas -- "Let Them Eat Houses!" The Implications of Urban Expansion onto Good Farmland -- Protecting Farmland from Whom and for What Purpose? -- Risk-Aversion Versus Optimal Strategies for Planning Rural Resources -- Resource Information Systems -- Monitoring Rural Land-Use Change: A Pilot Project -- Application of a Land Resource Information System to a Small Area in Scotland -- Automation and the Supply of Information for Land-Use Management -- The Agricultural Land Base Study: Natural Resource Policy Research in Alberta -- Land Evaluation and Environmental Change: The Case of Land Drainage and Food Production -- The Usefulness of Computer Aids That Capture Expert Knowledge about Land Management -- Analysis for Resource-Use Policy -- A Matrix-Flow Approach to Rural Domestic Energy: A Kenyan Case Study -- Rating Agricultural Land: Some New Measures of Importance -- Assessing the Impacts of Acid Rain on Regional Agricultural Production in Ontario -- Program Evaluation of Rural Resource Improvement -- The Dynamics of the Urban Field -- Farm Size and Land Use in the Urban Fringe in Scotland -- Conclusion -- Review and Prospect