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- Title
Evolutionary Processes in Soil Conservation Policy.
- Authors
Griffin, Ronald C.; Stoll, John R.
- Abstract
To understand where particular institutions and policies are going, it is necessary to know where they have been. Research on the origin and progress of particular institutions can sometimes provide crucial insights into the current status and future outlook of these institutions. In this paper we summarize and interpret part of the history and some of the apparent evolutionary processes past soil conservation policy. The underlying social objectives of these policies will, in the process, be identified. These findings shall be compared to those social objectives that economics identifies as the legitimate pursuits of government. The end result is an improved understanding of the social purposes of soil conservation policy, both real and theoretical, and the identification of some significant trends which have important implications for future policy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; SOIL conservation; UNITED States. Soil Conservation Service; ENVIRONMENTAL economics; POLITICAL planning; SOCIAL policy; AGRICULTURAL conservation; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Land Economics, 1984, Vol 60, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3146090