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1. Local Land Use Planning and Climate Change Policy

   Summary Report from Focus Groups and Interviews With Local Officials in the Intermountain West
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 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...

2. Gestión del crecimiento suburbano

   Cambios en el uso del suelo y el mercado del suelo en el área de influencia del Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de Quito, Ecuador
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2009
   Andrea Carrión

   La investigación analiza las políticas de desarrollo en áreas suburbanas de la ciudad de Quito y los impactos que éstas han tenido en el uso del suelo y el mercado...

3. Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Local Economies

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 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...

4. Design Principles Are Not Blue Prints, but Are They Robust?

   A Meta-Analysis of 112 Studies
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2009
   Michael Cox, Gwen Arnold, and Sergio Villamayor Tomas

   Scholars in the social sciences are only recently recognizing and developing appropriate analytical tools to understand complex systems. The central problem is the extremely large number of variables...

5. Amending Perpetual Conservation Easements Confronting the Dilemmas of Change

   A Practitioner’s View
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2009
   Darby Bradley

   As conservation easements age, land trusts have begun to confront changed circumstances that they could not have anticipated when the easements were drafted, and under which an amendment may serve...

6. The Effects of Land Development on Municipal Finance

   A Conceptual Overview
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2009
   Kurt Paulsen

   The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical and conceptual understanding of the fiscal effects which might be expected to result from land development within a community. The paper begins...

7. Teardowns and Land Values in New York City

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2009
   Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Michael Gedal

   A “teardown sale” occurs when a buyer purchases a property intending to demolish the existing structure and rebuild. In cities where vacant land is scarce, teardowns can play an important...

8. Underused Lots in New York City

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2009
   Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Josiah Madar, and Simon McDonnell

   Despite a robust real estate market for most of this decade, researchers and policymakers have observed that many areas of New York City have remained built out well below their zoning capacity. This...

9. Forests in United States Climate Policy

   A Comprehensive Approach
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2009
   Laurie Wayburn

   The comprehensive inclusion of domestic forests in national climate policy is essential to achieving United States goals to stabilize and reduce net emissions reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2), the...

10. Working Across Boundaries

    People, Nature, and Regions
    Livros
    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...