Offers an introduction to current issues regarding land-use and describes the economic tools which are used in resolving land-use conflicts. The book defines land resources to include agricultural land, forest land, residential, and commercial and industrial land.

The concept of land; The theory of welfare management; Property rights, market failure, externality, and environmental economics; Social cost-benefit analysis; Input-output models for regional and community development; Valuing nonmarket benefits; Conservation, sustainable development, and preservation; The economic effects of global climate change; Efficiency and equity in land use planning; Preservation and conservation of rural land; The economics of soil conservation; Water and agriculture; Forest and range economics; Economics of multiple use management for public land; Ethics and land resource economics.