• Project Dates: 2011 - 2013
• Project Leader: Guy Garrod
• Sponsors: EU: Marie Curie Actions Intra-European Fellowships

LUPUS explored the economic processes under-pinning the phenomenon of urban sprawl. In particular, the project investigated the role of the spatial distribution of environmental amenities in urban sprawl and the influence of future land development on agricultural land values. Throughout the project, urban sprawl was considered to be the simultaneous result of two separate mechanisms. On the one hand, are the effects of the behaviour of households and firms and the development patterns that they engender in suburban areas, while on the other hand is the influence of evolving land values and of developing agricultural and land use policies.

Associated Publications:

Coisnon T., W. Oueslati and J. Salanié (2013), “Spatial targeting of agri- environmental policy and urban development”, Ecological Economics, 101, 33-42.

Coisnon T., W. Oueslati and J. Salanié (2013), “Agri-environmental policy and urban sprawl: A general equilibrium analysis”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 96(3), 673-689.

Coisnon T., W. Oueslati and J. Salanié (2013), “Urban sprawl occurrence under spatially varying agricultural bid-rent and amenities”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 44, 38-49