Cost of Community Services in Southern New England
Chepachet, RI: Southern New England Forest Consortium, Inc., 1995. A planning document evaluating the fiscal contributions of developed land versus forest, farm, and open space land in towns distributed across southern New England.

Does Farmland Protection Pay? The Cost of Community Services in Three Massachusetts Towns
Northampton, MA: American Farmland Trust, 1992. A study of three Massachusetts towns, comparing the costs of services versus revenues of residential development, commercial/industrial development, and farming & open space land use.

The Economic Benefits of Parks and Open Space: How Land Conservation Helps Communities Grow Smart and Protect the Bottom Line
San Francisco, CA: The Trust for Public Land, 1999. A casebook presenting data and examples of open space protection that result in benefits such as boosting tourism, attracting businesses, and preventing flood damage.

Fact Sheet: Cost of Community Services Studies
Northampton, MA: American Farmland Trust, April 2000. A brief overview of the methodology, history and use of Cost of Community Services Studies as well as a summary of the studies that have been performed across the country.

Making the Case for Land Conservation: Fifteen Years of Cost of Community Services Studies
Julia Freedgood for the American Farmland Trust, 2002.

Review of Fiscal Impact Studies Relevant to the Highlands Region of Massachusetts
Prepared for the Highland Communities Initiative by the American Farmland Trust, September 2001.