Contested Countryside The Rural Urban Fringe in North America

North American farmland continues to be lost to nonfarm use (40 million acres and counting since 1970). This trend at the rural/urban fringe is the fulcrum of the debate over the desired shape of the landscape into 2YK. A dozen original papers discuss features of the agricultural land preservation strategies adopted by every state and provincial government in the US and Canada, per four major themes: the spatial structure/organizational form of the "contested countryside", land conversion protection policies, local rural-urban relationships given often divergent values, and non-governmental organizations as the most rapidly expanding area of environmental action.Furuseth, Owen J. is the author of 'Contested Countryside The Rural Urban Fringe in North America' with ISBN 9781859726624 and ISBN 1859726623.