Environmental and Resource Economics

, Volume 48, Issue 3, pp 487–509 | Cite as

Accounting for Spatial Effects in Economic Models of Land Use: Recent Developments and Challenges Ahead

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Abstract

The marked increase in the availability of spatial data has forced researchers engaged in land use modeling to directly confront the question of space and the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in developing spatial models. Advances have come from multiple disciplines, most notably through the development and application of spatial theory and methods from regional science, geography, urban economics and more recently, theoretical and applied econometrics. The main goal of this paper is to summarize the econometric challenges of spatial data and to highlight spatial models and methods with a particular focus on models of land markets and land use change. We also discuss the data and modeling challenges associated with modeling the underlying spatial economic mechanisms that give rise to land use patterns and the complexities involved in modeling land use as a coupled economic-ecological system.

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Spatial econometrics Hedonic Land use change 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Economic Sciences and IMPACT CenterWashington State UniversityPullmanUSA
  2. 2.Agricultural, Environmental, and Development EconomicsThe Ohio State UniversityColumbusUSA

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