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Future of land use in Australia: An economic perspective
Author(s) -
Mues C.,
Peterson D.,
Walshaw T.,
Morris P.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
land degradation and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1099-145X
pISSN - 1085-3278
DOI - 10.1002/ldr.3400050208
Subject(s) - land management , land use , order (exchange) , environmental resource management , land cover , land development , land information system , environmental planning , perspective (graphical) , government (linguistics) , resource (disambiguation) , natural resource , business , natural resource economics , economics , geography , computer science , political science , engineering , civil engineering , computer network , linguistics , philosophy , finance , artificial intelligence , law
It is proposed that the standard economist's model of optimum land use is extended to include the interaction with land cover and land condition. Such a model allows consideration of the influence of market factors and government policies and programmes on land use patterns and management practices, and the feedback effect on land cover and land condition. Recent developments in the approach to modelling land condition, which include the joint consideration of economic factors and physical processes, are discussed. Factors affecting the pattern of agricultural land use in Australia are then reviewed. The importance of considering economic and physical interactions when assessing land use patterns is increasingly being recognized in research and policy development. If research is to meet the needs of land managers in the future then economists and physical scientists will need to integrate their data modelling capabilities in order to address natural resource management issues.