Publication Details

Published: January 1, 1942

Publisher: Iowa State College Press

Location: Ames, Iowa, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31274/isudp.1942.4

Downloads: 5885

Chapters

• Front Matter and Introduction
• 1. Definitions
• 2. Efficiency, Capacity, Elasticity, and Intensity
• 3. The Relationship of Rent to the Elasticity of Production and Intensity of Land. Use
• 4. Exploitation of Virgin Fertility and the Intensive and Extensive Margins
• 5. Price Changes and Conservation
• 6. The Individual and Fertility Maintenance
• 7. The Individual and Conservation When Exploitation Induces Erosion or Soil Deterioration
• 8. Society and Conservation
• 9. Methods of Soil Control over Land Use
• 10. Problems of Measurement in Conservation Planning
• 11. War and Conservation
• 12. The Formulation of Public Policy and Action
• Selected Readings
• Index

Citation

Bunce A. 1942. The Economics of Soil Conservation