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Quarterly journal publishing scholarship on economic aspects of natural and environmental resources. Celebrating 100 years of scholarship and impact on public policy. Published by @uwiscpress.bsky.social | le.uwpress.org |

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Mohammad Sadegh Khorshidi, José M. Merigó, Amara Atif, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente, Finn Kydland, and Lluis Amiguet's bibliometric retrospective of Land Economics is freely available in the new issue! Read it here: le.uwpress.org/content/102/...

12.02.2026 22:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vol. 102 (1) of Land Economics is here! Mehdi Nemati, Michelle Sneed and Ariel Dinar’s open access article, “Impact of Land Subsidence on Housing Sale Values” is in publication: le.uwpress.org/content/102/...

Read the full issue here: le.uwpress.org/content/102/1

06.02.2026 15:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Revisiting Land, Labor and Capital in Neoclassical Economics" by Antoine Missemer and Antonin Pottier has been published in Vol. 101 (4), read it here: doi.org/10.3368/le.1...

28.10.2025 15:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Allen Blackman and Bridget Hoffmann's open access article has been published in Vol. 101 (4), read it here: doi.org/10.3368/le.1...

28.10.2025 15:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vol. 101 (4) of Land Economics is here!

Happy reading! le.uwpress.org/content/101/4

28.10.2025 15:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract: This study assesses the impact of land subsidence on housing sale values in the San Joaquin Valley, California. The study utilizes home sale transactions and vertical land-surface displacement data from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar techniques. Using fine-scale fixed effects, matching, as well as a repeat-sales approach, our results indicate that land subsidence resulted in a 2.4% to 5.8% reduction in housing sale values, with the largest reductions occurring in areas where substantial subsidence occurred. Such findings may have implications for groundwater management and can potentially help inform policy design to help mitigate the causes and impacts of land subsidence.

Abstract: This study assesses the impact of land subsidence on housing sale values in the San Joaquin Valley, California. The study utilizes home sale transactions and vertical land-surface displacement data from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar techniques. Using fine-scale fixed effects, matching, as well as a repeat-sales approach, our results indicate that land subsidence resulted in a 2.4% to 5.8% reduction in housing sale values, with the largest reductions occurring in areas where substantial subsidence occurred. Such findings may have implications for groundwater management and can potentially help inform policy design to help mitigate the causes and impacts of land subsidence.

Open access article published ahead of print! “Impact of Land Subsidence on Housing Sale Values: Evidence from the San Joaquin Valley, California” by Mehdi Nemati, Michelle Sneed and Ariel Dinar. Read it here: doi.org/10.3368/le.102.1.092324-0083R

15.10.2025 18:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Abstract: Spanning 1925–2024, we map Land Economics (LE) using Web of Science and Scopus with VOSviewer, bibliometrix, and SciVal. Analyses of documents, authors, and themes show LE as a central node linking environmental, agricultural, and urban economics. Seminal strands—property rights, contingent valuation, discrete choice, and hedonic pricing—anchor long-run influence. Keyword co-occurrence and thematic mapping confirm persistent emphases on valuation models, impact assessment, and policy applications, alongside emerging work on ecosystem services, climate change, and the water–energy nexus. Trend-topic and SciVal clusters reveal growing attention to disaster management, green innovation, and behavioral economics with uneven recent citation performance across topics and time.

Abstract: Spanning 1925–2024, we map Land Economics (LE) using Web of Science and Scopus with VOSviewer, bibliometrix, and SciVal. Analyses of documents, authors, and themes show LE as a central node linking environmental, agricultural, and urban economics. Seminal strands—property rights, contingent valuation, discrete choice, and hedonic pricing—anchor long-run influence. Keyword co-occurrence and thematic mapping confirm persistent emphases on valuation models, impact assessment, and policy applications, alongside emerging work on ecosystem services, climate change, and the water–energy nexus. Trend-topic and SciVal clusters reveal growing attention to disaster management, green innovation, and behavioral economics with uneven recent citation performance across topics and time.

Land Economics continues to celebrate 100 years in publication! To read an open access bibliometric review of the journal (doi.org/10.3368/le.102.1.271914) and other free preprint articles like it, visit: le.uwpress.org/content/early/recent.

07.10.2025 21:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Vol. 101 (4) of Land Economics is almost here! Follow to stay notified of when new issues go live, or sign up for email alerts at le.uwpress.org/alerts

07.10.2025 21:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Free preprint articles available now! le.uwpress.org/content/early/recent

25.09.2025 15:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vol. 101 (3) of Land Economics is here! This issue includes articles on whether good intentions make good policy, the relationship between wildlife conservation and renewable energy, and China’s annual fishing moratorium.

Happy reading! le.uwpress.org/content/101/3

05.08.2025 15:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract: Various policy interventions can be implemented to motivate individuals to adopt pro-environmental landscaping behaviours. Here we compare the influence of economic incentives and social norms on urban landowners’ adoption of native gardens. First, we model the relationship between social norms and landowners’ actual land-use decisions. We then estimate adoption intention under different support programs using a choice experiment, also considering social norms. We find social norms can play a significant role in the adoption of native gardens, comparable to relatively expensive financial incentives. Therefore, social norms may enhance the performance of incentives to increase rates of land conservation.

Abstract: Various policy interventions can be implemented to motivate individuals to adopt pro-environmental landscaping behaviours. Here we compare the influence of economic incentives and social norms on urban landowners’ adoption of native gardens. First, we model the relationship between social norms and landowners’ actual land-use decisions. We then estimate adoption intention under different support programs using a choice experiment, also considering social norms. We find social norms can play a significant role in the adoption of native gardens, comparable to relatively expensive financial incentives. Therefore, social norms may enhance the performance of incentives to increase rates of land conservation.

Open access article published ahead of print! “The Role of Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Encouraging the Adoption of Native Gardens” by Curtis Rollins, Claire Doll, Katrin Rehdanz, Jürgen Meyerhoff, Michael Burton and David Pannell. Read it here: le.uwpress.org/content/earl...

31.07.2025 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vol. 101 (3) of Land Economics is almost here! Follow to stay notified of when new issues go live, or sign up for email alerts at le.uwpress.org/alerts

26.06.2025 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract: It is usually argued that the advent of neoclassical economics led to the consideration of only two factors of production (capital and labor) instead of three (capital, labor and land). From the 1880s to the 1920s, land and natural resources would have been marginalized and left to applied fields such as land economics. This article revisits this episode. Theoretically speaking, it shows that there was no requirement in marginal productivity theories to subsume land into capital. Historically speaking, it demonstrates that alternatives did exist, within American neoclassicism, to the neglect of land and natural resources, providing inspiration for today’s research.

Abstract: It is usually argued that the advent of neoclassical economics led to the consideration of only two factors of production (capital and labor) instead of three (capital, labor and land). From the 1880s to the 1920s, land and natural resources would have been marginalized and left to applied fields such as land economics. This article revisits this episode. Theoretically speaking, it shows that there was no requirement in marginal productivity theories to subsume land into capital. Historically speaking, it demonstrates that alternatives did exist, within American neoclassicism, to the neglect of land and natural resources, providing inspiration for today’s research.

Open access article published ahead of print! “Revisiting Land, Labor and Capital in Neoclassical Economics” by @antmis1.bsky.social and Antonin Pottier. Read it here: le.uwpress.org/content/earl... #econsky #economics

24.06.2025 17:21 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Abstract: We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of training university students in Bogotá to use a smartphone app that displays real-time location-specific air quality data. The training increased participants’ acquisition of information about air quality, their knowledge about avoidance behavior, and most important, their reported avoidance behavior. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that if scaled to the entire city of Bogotá, the training could reduce premature cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and respiratory deaths among the additional 3–8 percent of the city’s population incentivized to undertake avoidance behavior by 51–61 percent per year, a benefit valued at US$11–13 million.

Abstract: We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of training university students in Bogotá to use a smartphone app that displays real-time location-specific air quality data. The training increased participants’ acquisition of information about air quality, their knowledge about avoidance behavior, and most important, their reported avoidance behavior. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that if scaled to the entire city of Bogotá, the training could reduce premature cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and respiratory deaths among the additional 3–8 percent of the city’s population incentivized to undertake avoidance behavior by 51–61 percent per year, a benefit valued at US$11–13 million.

Open access article published ahead of print! Can Smartphone App Trainings Help Reduce Exposure to Air Pollution? Experimental Evidence from Bogotá by Allen Blackman and Bridget Hoffmann. Read it here: le.uwpress.org/content/earl...

17.06.2025 18:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Free preprint articles available now! le.uwpress.org/content/early/recent

#economics #econsky

10.06.2025 20:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Free issue available now! le.uwpress.org/content/96/4

04.06.2025 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Since 2017, Land Economics has published open access content, making select articles freely available to scholars, policy makers, and the public. View the collection here: le.uwpress.org/page/collections/open-access

28.05.2025 19:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The editorial leadership of Land Economics has been instrumental in shaping its direction and maintaining its commitment to publishing high-quality, policy-relevant research. Discover the editors who have helmed the journal for its 100 years in publication: le.uwpress.org/page/history/editors

23.05.2025 20:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great journal which retains its own clear niche even in the crowded ecosystem of contemporary science. Personally, the papers by Trudy Ann Cameron and Kenneth E Train had the biggest impact on my research

06.05.2025 20:37 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Some great papers here.

06.05.2025 20:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

To celebrate 100 years of Land Economics, some of the journal’s most influential articles are now open access! Trace the development of thought and history of scholarship in the field dating back to 1925. le.uwpress.org/page/history/research

06.05.2025 20:09 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

📢New guidelines for accepted manuscripts from @uwiscpress.bsky.social: All figures should include, for each panel, alternative text (alt text), a text description of the image designed to provide meaning for users with visual impairments. See journals.uwpress.wisc.edu/PDFs/AltText... #ADACompliance

29.04.2025 18:34 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Did we mention the special issue content is completely free? 😱
“How to Decide When Experts Disagree: Uncertainty-Based Choice Rules in Environmental Policy” by Richard Woodward and Richard Bishop www.jstor.org/stable/3147241 as well as other articles from the issue are available now!

29.04.2025 14:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🌏 Happy Earth Day everyone! 🌍 Read our 1997 special issue “Defining Sustainability” here: www.jstor.org/stable/i358000

22.04.2025 20:58 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Abstract: This article estimates the effect of climate change on Canadian farmland values using a unique dataset of 45,000 parcel-level sales between 2017 and 2022. The parcel-level data support a regression approach with unique controls for nonagricultural influences (i.e., census division fixed effects and proximity to urban areas). Our results suggest that by 2070, climate change will positively increase farmland values across our sample of Canadian farmland parcels.

Abstract: This article estimates the effect of climate change on Canadian farmland values using a unique dataset of 45,000 parcel-level sales between 2017 and 2022. The parcel-level data support a regression approach with unique controls for nonagricultural influences (i.e., census division fixed effects and proximity to urban areas). Our results suggest that by 2070, climate change will positively increase farmland values across our sample of Canadian farmland parcels.

Open access article from the latest issue: “The Effect of Climate Change on Canadian Farmland Values: A Ricardian Approach” by Nicholas Bannon, Christopher Kimmerer and B. James Deaton. le.uwpress.org/content/101/2/201

15.04.2025 15:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract: This article examines the degree to which information inefficiency influences farmland price expectations. Using expectations and observed values of Iowa farmland from 1964 to 2021 and the empirical test of Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2015), we estimate the degree to which information rigidities hold explanatory power for information inefficiency. Our results suggest that Iowa farmland professionals infrequently update their information set or underweight new information. This article provides a necessary step toward a better understanding of the role of information in farmland market efficiency, furthering the discussion of development of additional public information in farmland markets.

Abstract: This article examines the degree to which information inefficiency influences farmland price expectations. Using expectations and observed values of Iowa farmland from 1964 to 2021 and the empirical test of Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2015), we estimate the degree to which information rigidities hold explanatory power for information inefficiency. Our results suggest that Iowa farmland professionals infrequently update their information set or underweight new information. This article provides a necessary step toward a better understanding of the role of information in farmland market efficiency, furthering the discussion of development of additional public information in farmland markets.

Open access article from the latest issue: “Information Rigidities and Farmland Value Expectations” by Chad Fiechter, Todd Kuethe and Wendong Zhang. le.uwpress.org/content/101/2/218

10.04.2025 18:45 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Abstract: Preference heterogeneity among landowners managing transboundary resources can determine the production of externalities across their lands. I test this hypothesis in the context of an invasive species affecting two forest landowners, where one values their property for recreation and the other produces timber. Using a spatially explicit first-mover repeated game, I find that the social cost of the externality is greatest when a bioinvasion starts on the recreation property. Except for species with fast long-distance dispersal, the optimal subsidy is nonuniform, targeting the landowner who acts as the weaker link, regardless of where a bioinvasion starts.

Abstract: Preference heterogeneity among landowners managing transboundary resources can determine the production of externalities across their lands. I test this hypothesis in the context of an invasive species affecting two forest landowners, where one values their property for recreation and the other produces timber. Using a spatially explicit first-mover repeated game, I find that the social cost of the externality is greatest when a bioinvasion starts on the recreation property. Except for species with fast long-distance dispersal, the optimal subsidy is nonuniform, targeting the landowner who acts as the weaker link, regardless of where a bioinvasion starts.

Open access article from the latest issue: “Spatial Bioinvasion Externalities with Heterogeneous Landowner Preferences: A Two-Agent Bioeconomic Model” by Shady S. Atallah. le.uwpress.org/content/101/2/262

03.04.2025 16:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’re not fooling you! May’s issue is here early! Vol. 101 (2) includes articles on the land impacts of Natura 2000 and managing nitrogen in farmland under excessive rainfall. le.uwpress.org/content/101/2

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01.04.2025 17:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Free preprint articles available now! le.uwpress.org/content/early/recent

#economics #econsky

25.03.2025 20:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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