Rural areas are increasingly changed by drivers on large spatial scales such as economic globalization and climate change. These international drivers may bring forth abrupt disturbances, such as high output price peaks and falls, water floods and droughts, and massive outbreaks of animal diseases which negatively affect a rural areas’ environmenta...
Ruimtelijke vestigingsfactoren zijn altijd al belangrijk geweest bij de locatiekeuze van bedrijven. Waar vroeger de nabijheid van grondstoffen belangrijk was, ligt de nadruk nu meer op infrastructuur, clusters en Quality of life (leefomgevingkwaliteit). Het relatieve belang van alle vestigingsfactoren verschilt sterk per type bedrijf en bedrijfsact...
The main reason for government intervention in land markets is market failure. Open space is a non-market output or externality of farmland and, although it might be important to people, there is no actual market for the good as such. The Netherlands and the Province of British Columbia in Canada both experience similar problems of expanding cities...
