Spatial targeting of agri-environmental policy and urban development

Thomas Coisnon, Walid Oueslati and Julien Salanié
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Julien Salanié: Université de Lyon, Lyon, F-69007, France ; CNRS, GATE Lyon St Etienne,F-69130 Ecully, France, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, F-42000, France

No 1401, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: Widespread public support exists for the provision of natural amenities, such as lakes, rivers or wetlands, and for efforts to preserve these from agricultural pollution. Agri-environmental policies contribute to these efforts by encouraging farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices within the vicinity of these ecosystems. A spatially targeted agri-environmental policy promotes natural amenities and may thereby affect household location decisions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent of these impacts on the spatial urban structure. We extend a monocentric city model to include farmers’ responses to an agri-environmental policy. Our main findings are that the implementation of a spatially targeted agrienvironmental policy may lead to some additional urban development, which could conflict with the aim of the policy.

Keywords: Land development; Urban sprawl; Leapfrog; Land rent; Monocentric model; Farming; Agri-environmental policy; Spatial targeting; Agricultural pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 Q24 Q25 R14 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env, nep-res, nep-sog and nep-ure
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Working Paper: Spatial targeting of agri-environmental policy and urban development (2014)
Working Paper: Spatial targeting of agri-environmental policy and urban development (2013)
Working Paper: Spatial targeting of agri-environmental policy and urban development (2013)
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