ABSTRACT
Introduction Although the term “multifunctionality” is more familiar in Europe (Batie 2003), residents on both sides of the Atlantic recognize and appreciate non-production, or multifunctional, outputs from agricultural land. Public policies increasingly seek to supply these often nonmarket outputs, especially through the creation of new and more innovative policies or by better aligning existing policies to promote stewardship (Dobbs and Pretty 2004). This chapter focuses on policies that help achieve an important goal of stewardship – the provision and preservation of landscape and open-space amenity benefits (Abler 2004). Many policies affect the provision of such amenity benefits (Duke and Lynch 2006), but land preservation policies represent the principal interventions affecting their allocation by land markets. The most common types of land preservation policies include:
1 regulatory methods, including conservation-oriented zoning; 2 purchase of agricultural conservation easements (PACE); and 3 acquisitive or fee-simple purchase.
