Overview

David Kay is a Senior Extension Associate with the Community & Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) in the Department of Development Sociology. David provides leadership to CaRDI in the area of Landscape Management and Land Use Planning, with the goal of helping to "support sound management of New York`s land resources". His land use programming involves research, outreach, and training efforts that attempt to build community-based decision making capacity and to help weave local policy into a regionally coherent fabric. David also serves on his local planning board and has served on the boards of several local and New York State planning organizations.

Additional Links

• Link to CALS Research portal
• Link to CALS Impact statements

Professional Activities

• Geisler, Charles and David Kay. 2007. Land Use Planning and Security in Terrains of Terror, presented at the Conference on the Science and Education of Land Use: A Transatlantic, Multidisciplinary and Comparative approach, at the Westin Washington, DC City Center, The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, September 24-26, 2007. - 2007
• Boisvert, Richard N. David Kay, and Calum Turvey. 2007. Agro-terrorism Risks in the Mid-Atlantic Region: Economic Implications, presented at: Marketing Policy Conference, "Bio-terrorism and Natural Disasters: Market and Policy Responses ", Washington, DC, March 22-23, 2007, Organizers: Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section (FAMPS) & NC-1016. - 2007
• Kay, David. Organizer, moderator and presenter of seven session track on Healthy Farm Neighbor Relations, at NYS Direct Marketing Conference, Owego New York, January 19, 2007. - 2007
• Kay, David and Nelson Bills. "Owners' Perspectives on the Status and Future of Undeveloped Land in NYS, " Presented at the Agricultural and Food Systems Inservice, Ithaca NY, Cornell University, November 9, 2006. - 2006
• Pendall, Rolf, Joe Laquatra, David L. Kay, Nelson Bills, Jordan Souter, and Margaret Cowell. "Rural Sprawl in Upstate NY: Observations on Residential Development and Housing Prices, " presentation at New York Upstate Chapter American Planning Association Annual Meeting, September 2006. - 2006
• Kay, David. "When Worlds Collide: Resolving Farm-Neighbor Conflicts, " Presentation at New York State Association of Towns, February 21, 2006. - 2006
• Suter, Jordan F., Nelson L. Bills, David L. Kay and Gregory L. Poe. "Assessing the Impact of Open Space on Residential Property Values in Urban, Suburban and Rural Areas: a Hedonic Pricing Study of Upstate New York, " Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Presented at the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Meetings NAREA conference on Monday, June 12, 2006. - 2006

Selected Publications

• Kay, David. 2007. Heats and Animosities: What Rural New Yorkers Think about Local Taxes and Services, Research & Policy Brief Series, Department of Development Sociology, Issue 8/August. 2007
• Kay, David, Suzanne Motheral. 2007. Converging Worlds: The State of Farm-Neighbor Relations in NYS, Issue 4, Cornell Community and Rural Development Institute, Research & Policy Brief Series, Department of Development Sociology, Issue 4/April. 2007
• Kay, David and Nelson Bills. 2007. What are the Plans of Owners of Idle Agricultural Land in NYS? Rural New York Minute, Issue 3 Cornell Community and Rural Development Institute, Department of Development Sociology, March 2007. 2007
• Kay, David, Duncan Hilchey, Martin Shields. 2007. The Economic Impact of the Grape Juice and Winery Sectors of the Lake Erie Concord Grape Belt (of Chautauqua County, New York and Erie County, Pennsylvania) Report submitted to the Lake Erie Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association, Westfield, NY. March, 2007. 2007
• Kay, David, Chuck Geisler, & Nelson Bills. 2007. Terrorism & Residential Location Preferences in New York State, Research & Policy Brief Series Issue 1, Community and Rural Development Institute, Cornell University. 2007
• Laquatra, Joseph, Rolf Pendall, David L. Kay, Jordan F. Suter, and Nelson Bills. The Changing Nature of Housing Markets In Upstate New York, Housing and Society, 34 (1), 65-75. 2007. 2007
• Kay, David, James E. Pratt, Mildred E. Warner. Measuring the Role of Local Services with Hypothetical Extraction, Growth and Change, 38(3), 419-442. September 2007. 2007
• Boisvert, Richard N. David Kay, and Calum Turvey. 2007. Agro-terrorism Risks in the Mid-Atlantic Region: Economic Implications, presented at: Marketing Policy Conference, "Bio-terrorism and Natural Disasters: Market and Policy Responses ", Washington, DC, March 22-23, 2007, Organizers: Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section (FAMPS) & NC-1016. 2007
• Geisler, Charles and David Kay. 2007. Land Use Planning and Security in Terrains of Terror, presented at the Conference on the Science and Education of Land Use: A Transatlantic, Multidisciplinary and Comparative approach, at the Westin Washington, DC City Center, The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, September 24-26, 2007. 2007
• Vadas, Timothy M., Timothy J. Fahey, Ruth E. Sherman, David Kay. Local-scale analysis of carbon mitigation strategies: Tompkins County,New York, USA, Energy Policy 35(11): 5515?5525. 2007. 2007
• Suter, Jordan F., Gregory L. Poe, Nelson L. Bills and David L. Kay, 2007. "Implicit Prices for Open Space in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas ", selected paper, ASSA meetings Jan. 4 2008, New Orleans. 2007
• Kay, David. 2007. Do Residential Preferences Foster Sprawl in Upstate New York, New York Minute, Issue 11 Cornell Community and Rural Development Institute, Department of Development Sociology, November 2007. 2007
• Pratt, J., & Kay, D. (2006). Beyond Looking Backward: Is Child Care a Key Economic Sector? Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 37 (2). 2006
• Connelly, Nancy, B. Knuth, and D. Kay. "Public Support for Ecosystem Restoration in the Hudson River Valley, USA. " Environmental Management 29: 467-476. 2002

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