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1. Comprehensive Planning Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Planning and Urban Form This course underscores the critical importance of citizen planners in shaping the future of their communities through simple actions (or inaction) that can have important consequences. The course encourages responsible stewardship in a society that is rapidly changing. Modules provide users with tools and techniques, case studies, good practices, and other resources to meet the needs of twenty-first century urban, rural, or suburban communities.
2. Introduction to New England Forests Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Planning and Urban Form The topics of forest management, ecology, stewardship, and sustainability are explored in this online program coordinated by Brian Donahue of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The course teaches how woodlands can be actively managed for timber and at the same time protected, in the context of urban and suburban growth, for future generations.
3. Local Communities Adapting to Climate Change Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Planning and Urban Form This course is adapted from a two-day course developed by Larry Susskind, Patrick Field and Todd Schenk at the Consensus Building Institute in collaboration with Steve Aldrich of Bio Economic Research Associates (bio-eraTM), and Paul Kirshen, at Battelle. It introduces decision makers to tools for climate change adaptation planning. Using videos, interactive exercises, and self-assessments, the course walks learners through lessons on climate change risks, climate downscaling, collaborative decision-making,...
4. Practical Ecology Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Planning and Urban Form Dan Perlman of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts introduces key lessons from the sciences of ecology and conservation biology to help land use planners, developers, and members of planning boards manage the interface between humans and nature for the beneit of all parties. Incorporating ecological and conservation insights into planning and development will increase human health and safety, add to human pleasure, and help protect native species and ecosystems. By approaching our relationship wit...
5. Property Rights in America Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Planning and Urban Form Since the 1990s, the property rights movement has played a significant role in the land use and environmental arena at the national, state, and local levels. The national coalition has helped to pass legislation in 27 states that restricts the right of state and local governments to enact and enforce land use regulations and has reshaped public dialogue on the appropriate balance of private and public property rights. This course, developed by Harvey Jacobs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, acquaints ...
6. Resolving Land Use Disputes Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Planning and Urban Form This online course is based on the introductory course offered as part of the Mediating Land Use Disputes Series developed by Patrick Field, Ona Ferguson, and others at the Consensus Building Institute with the Lincoln Institute. It presents practical experience and insights into negotiating and mediating solutions to conflicts over land use and community development. Through filmed lectures, interactive exercises, and simulations, participants learn about cases involving land development and community grow...
7. Designing and Implementing Property Tax Systems in Africa Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Valuation and Taxation This course provides an overview of property taxation and its role in fiscal decentralization, reviews current international practices and trends in developing and developed countries, discusses the implications of choosing different property tax bases, and examines the administrative realities inherent in any property tax system.
8. Successful Property Tax Reform: The Case of Massachusetts Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Valuation and Taxation This course examines the deep problems of the Massachusetts property tax in the 1970s and the subsequent reforms that created one of the most functional and fair property tax systems in the United States. Course modules explore the property tax system prior to reform; events leading up to the tax revolt and the assessment reforms; and the future of the current system.
9. Taxation and Economic Development Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Valuation and Taxation This course, developed by Jeffrey Chapman of Arizona State University, analyzes the theory and tools of local economic development in the United States. In addition to modules focused on the role of the property tax and economic development, the course also explores economic development theory and the current state of the law on these issues. It examines innovative public financial incentives, the role of the community in economic development, and addresses the special problems in rural areas. It includes ...
10. The New Model of Tax Administration Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Valuation and Taxation This course examines advanced statistical methods and new technology, such as spatial analysis and geographic information systems (GIS), that can improve the valuation of land and buildings for tax purposes.
11. Two-Rate Taxation of Land and Buildings: Benefits and Challenges of Innovative Property Tax Reform Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Valuation and Taxation This course presents a variety of political and economic views on the taxation of land and buildings. It reviews the rationale for applying different tax rates to land and buildings, describes the history of two-rate taxation in Pennsylvania, and discusses current issues in the assessment of land value.
12. Valuing Land Affected by Conservation Easements Location(s): Ongoing Online Course Department: Valuation and Taxation Conservation easements brings together land policy, environmental questions and tax policy in a complex and compelling way; and though widely used and accepted since its implementation several decades ago, conservation easements still generate controversy. This online course provides an overview of conservation easements, including background on the current policy debate, and draws on experts in environmental studies, planning, tax law, valuation and assessment.
