Regions, Land Consumption and Sustainable Growth

Assessing the Impact of the Public and Private Sectors

New Horizons in Regional Science series

Edited by Oedzge Atzema, Professor of Economic Geography, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, the late Piet Rietveld, former Professor of Transport Economics, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Daniel Shefer, Kunin-Lunnenfeld Professor of Urban and Regional Economics, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel and Visiting Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, US

This book provides an in-depth investigation of the role of the private and public sectors in land markets and regional economics, and explores the reasons behind government intervention in the interests of sustainable growth.