Contemporary land use problems and conflicts / Rural land use problems and policy options: overview from a US perspective / Land use problems: a European perspective / Employment growth, population growth and electronic technologies as determinants of land use / Failing markets and fragile institutions in land use: Colorado's experience / Postproductivism and changing rural land use values and preferences / Urban development impacts on ecosystems / Urban growth, rural land conversion and the fiscal well-being of local municipalities / Sense of place as an integrated framework for understanding human impacts of land use change / Socioeconomic and health outcomes of land use / Spatial analysis and applied land use research / Public preferences for farmland attributes in conservation easement programs / Value conflict and land use planning: an example at the rural-urban interface / The impacts of land use on nearby property values: estimates from a hedonic house price model / Agri-environmental complementaries: challenges and opportunities in an old world / Multifuncitionality, land use and agricultural policy / Sprawl: contemporary land use planning's paradigm / The smart growth approach to urban land use: implications for farmland protection / Protecting farmland: why do we do it? Can we do it better? / What would an ideal Federal rural land use policy look like? / Future research needs for rational land use decisions