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A Study of Voter Attitudes Toward Different Proposals for the Use of an Undeveloped Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Milton D. Seekins  and
David A. Storey
Milton D. Seekins
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources, University of Maine
David A. Storey
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Public concern with decisions about the use of land, particularly if it is undeveloped, is an increasing phenomenon in our society. This is especially true in the coastal zone, where land and water resources are extremely limited in quantity and subject to strong and growing demand, and where there are not only direct interrelationships among the ways adjacent parcels of shoreland and water are used, but also indirect interrelationships among various land and water uses that are effected through complex coastal ecosystems. Since the coastal waters are largely common property resources, there is a particularly strong rationale for concern about the impact of human activities upon their availability, quality, and viability within the ecosystem.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , April 1977 , pp. 81 - 92
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Paper No. 2119, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This research supported (in part) from Experiment Station Project No. 329. The authors wish to thank Cleve Willis and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.

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