Regional Modelling for Optimal Allocation of Agricultural Crops Considering Environmental Impacts, Housing Value and Leisure Preferences

Nava Haruvy () and Sarit Shalhevet ()

ERSA conference papers from European Regional Science Association

Abstract: Regional planning should consider the impact of agricultural crops on housing value and leisure, as well as on the local environment. We designed an optimization model for allocating agricultural crops based on farmers profits as well as the impact on these three factors. Each crop creates a different landscape, as well as a different effect on shading and noise reduction. These in turn influence the value of nearby housing and the regional leisure opportunities. Each crop also has a positive and negative environmental impact, including potential use of treated wastewater as well as the effects of pesticides and fertilizers. All these factors were combined with economic considerations to suggest the optimal regional allocation of agricultural crops.

New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env and nep-geo
Date: 2006-08
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://www-sre.wu-wien.ac.at/ersa/ersaconfs/ersa06/papers/822.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa06p822

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in ERSA conference papers from European Regional Science Association
Address: Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Series data maintained by Gunther Maier ().