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1. Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Agosto 2009
   Patrick M. Condon, Duncan Cavens, and Nicole Miller

   Land use patterns and urban form can strongly impact an urban community’s contribution to global climate change through the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Key contributors to a...

2. Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation

   A Heritage of Civic Engagement
   Libros
   Febrero 2009
   Edited by Charles H.W. Foster

   Many partners have been involved over the last decade in developing an archive of materials documenting the evolution of land conservation in the six New England states. Coordinated by Charles H. W....

3. Design Principles of Robust Property Rights Institutions

   What Have We Learned?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Elinor Ostrom

   Elinor Ostrom, one of the pioneers in developing the theory of property rights, challenged the then-conventional wisdom that common-pool resources will be overharvested if clearly delineated private...

4. Should Decreases in Property Value Caused by Regulations Be Compensated?

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Abraham Bell

   Ideally, government could recoup the benefits of land use planning and redistribute them to those who bear the costs. In this case takings compensation is justified. Given the reciprocal nature of...

5. Private Conservation Easements

   Balancing Private Initiative and the Public Interest
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Gerald Korngold

   A commonly used property rights approach to conserving the environment is private conservation easements. Gerald Korngold discusses the benefits of this policy and proposes methods to mediate some of...

6. Working Across Boundaries

   People, Nature, and Regions
   Libros
   Agosto 2009
   Matthew J. McKinney and Shawn Johnson

   “The principles, strategies, and tools describes in this book are a gold mine of information about how to manage regional collaborations and reach consensus around some of the most difficult...

7. Local Land Use Planning and Climate Change Policy

   Summary Report from Focus Groups and Interviews With Local Officials in the Intermountain West
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2009
   David Metz and Curtis Below

   Planning for climate change entails many challenges, and in the Intermountain West this may be particularly so. In early 2009, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz...

8. Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Local Economies

   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2009
   Rosalind H. Bark

   The Intermountain West is in the bull’s eye of climate change impacts in the United States. Climate change impacts will range from increased risk of droughts, floods and wildfires, landscape level...

9. Report from the President

   Climate Change and Urban Development
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2009
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Accumulating evidence indicates that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, are raising average temperatures, acidifying and raising the level of oceans, and...

10. The Role of Forests in U.S. Climate Policy

    Revista Land Lines
    Octubre 2009
    Laurie A. Wayburn

    Forest loss is part of the climate problem, but forest conservation is part of the solution. The comprehensive inclusion of domestic forests in national climate policy is essential to achieving the...