In honor of C. Lowell Harriss
05.17.2012
The C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship recipients for 2012-2013 have been named, continuing to honor the late Columbia University economist who served for decades on the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s board of directors. Through its longstanding graduate student dissertation fellowships, the Lincoln Institute assists Ph.D students, primarily at U.S. universities but also worldwide. This program supports scholars early in their careers, and covers topics ranging from the property tax to watershed protection, through the Department of Taxation and Valuation and the Department of Planning and Urban Form.
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Value capture, past and present
05.11.2012
Although it’s been used widely in Europe and Latin America, value capture – the concept of asking private landowners to contribute to the cost of infrastructure, for example, in anticipation of the rise of property values such projects bring – has been only recently increasing in use in the U.S. Value Capture and Land Policies, the latest in the Land Policy Conference series, is a comprehensive survey on the use of value capture in the U.S. and around the world, based on the proceedings of the 6th Annual Land Policy Conference held in Cambridge in May 2011.
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Universities as conservation catalysts
05.07.2012
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy held a two-day conference in Boulder in April to explore ways that colleges and universities can play a role facilitating large landscape conservation. The meeting included about three dozen senior professors, staff and administrators from universities, colleges and field research stations from places as diverse as China, California, Kenya, Montana, Florida, Arizona, Australia, and New England, to consider the role that their organizations play as conservation catalysts.
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