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Developing a Quantitative Spatial Economic Model to Evaluate Urban Water Conservation Policies in Denver
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2023Juan Carlos G. LopezThis paper develops a quantitative spatial model for the city of Denver to consider policy proposals to reduce urban water demand using data on land use and water demand by households and business...
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Understanding the Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Urban Greenspaces
A green infrastructure approach to healthy behavior and outcomeDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2023Yizhao Yang, Hong Wu, Dong Li, and Jie HuThis paper argues that urban greenspaces’ ultimate health efficacy lies in them working together as a system and as green infrastructure to provide a variety of ecosystem services. This...
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How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2023Ernest Cook, Katherine Lyons, Rashail Deminck, Lucia Portman, and Molly McDevittLand conservation – defined as land protection, restoration and stewardship – can be used to address climate change both by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and by helping human and...
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China’s Shifting Demographic Geography
Insights from the 2020 CensusDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2023Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei ZhangThis monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...
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Urban Growth Boundaries for Watershed Health
Managing the Impacts of Peripheral Land Uses on Water Quantity and QualityDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2022Lance GlossThis working paper considers how the common land use planning tool of establishing Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs) can better integrate water management. Three case studies and mixed methods research...
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What Do We Do with the Land Left Behind?
XSP for Floodplain Buyout ParcelsDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2022Kelly Leilani Main, Risa Hiser, Victoria Woods, Osamu Kumasaka, Maggie Tsang, and Isaac SteinFlood risk is increasing across the country due to extreme precipitation, outdated infrastructure, poor development practices, and climate change. As climate impacts like storm surge and sea level...
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Regulating Urban Sustainability
Land Regulations, Urban Spatial Structure, Transportation Infrastructure, and Greenhouse Gas EmissionsDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2022Paavo Monkkonen , Erick Guerra, Jorge Montejano Escamilla, and Camilo Caudillo CosCities feature prominently in debates over how to deal with the existential threat of climate change, alternating between the role of potential savior (e.g. Copenhagen or Amsterdam) and prime culprit...
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Valuing Density
An Evaluation of the Extent to which American, Australian, and Canadian Cities Account for the Climate Benefits of Density through Environmental ReviewDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2022Katrina Wyman, Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Adalene Minelli, and Sara SavaraniThis study looks at the extent to which major cities in the United States, Australia, and Canada assess the climate impacts of densification through the environmental review process. Research...
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The Development of Copycat Towns in China
An Initial Analysis of Their Economic, Social, and Environmental ImplicationsDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2017Daniel Sui, Bo Zhao, and Hui KongThe great urban leap forward in China during the past four decades has dramatically transformed the Chinese landscape across the country as well as Chinese society in many profound ways. By situating...
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Urban Planning for Climate Change
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007Edward J. BlakelyScientific opinion is now unanimous that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise with concomitant extreme weather patterns and events. There is a protean body of scientific literature...
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