Hi!

Well the group I belongs too (the Environmental Science and Engineering Group) at Linnaeus University have had a lot of work about the economic aspects of landfills and landfilling.

Best Regards

Yahya

There is a 2007 hedonic paper on landfills:

"Does size really matter? Landfill scale impacts on property values" Applied Economics Letters" Jong Seok Lim and Paul Missios 

Dear Patrick, how can I get access to this paper?

Dear Yahya, did you publish anything I could read?

Thanks.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504850600592531#.VLgahyvF9D0

You should also look at:

http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/132172/2/2000-2-2.pdf

https://ideas.repec.org/a/jre/issued/v32n32010p321-340.html

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3146693?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Thank you Patrick.

I would like to know exactly how much space landfills take up, now and historically. Do you have numbers for urban areas?

Rebecca,

Not yet, I am working on it.