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Towards a Coordinated Information System for Natural Resource Planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2020

Lee D. Schneider  and
Donn A. Derr
Lee D. Schneider
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics & Marketing, Rutgers University - the State University of New Jersey
Donn A. Derr
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics & Marketing, Rutgers University - the State University of New Jersey
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From 1940 to 1970 the population of the United States and particularly the Northeast has increased rapidly. The population of the United States has grown from approximately 132 to 203 million people, while the increase in the Northeast was from 36 to 49 million. This constitutes a 54 percent increase in the United States’ population and a change in density from 37 to 57 people per square mile. For the Northeast, which is already the most densely populated region of the United States (New Jersey having 953 people per square mile), the expansion was from 134 to 182 people per square mile, representing a 36 percent increase.

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Natural Resource Economics
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 1 , October 1972 , pp. 182 - 191
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This paper is based upon current and future work at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (New Brunswick) under the Regional Research Project NE-78.

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