Toward a Vision of Land in 2015 (Book)

International Perspectives

Editor(s): Cornia, Gary C., and Jim Riddell
Publication Date: April 2008

$30.00; 344 pages; Inventory ID 174-3; English; Paperback; ISBN 978-1-55844-174-3

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Abstract

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has collaborated with the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan for many years, and in October 2006 the two organizations cohosted a conference on land-related issues to commemorate the 100th international training course held at the center. The conference gathered some of the best thinkers on land issues to discuss their invited papers on topics that would be important between the present time and the year 2015, the target date to which United Nations member states have agreed for a set of Millennium Development Goals. For example, the seventh goal, to “ensure environmental sustainability,” calls for preserving environmental resources, improving the lives of slum dwellers, and increasing access to safe drinking water.

Edited by Gary C. Cornia and Jim Riddell, this book compiles the conference proceedings and alerts policy and decision makers to the changing circumstances of how society views, values, and uses land. Some of the issues addressed in this volume help policy makers think about how to utilize land to help govern a community. This topic includes using land as a revenue source for the funding of government or as a tool in economic development.

Other chapters offer insights and advice about technical and policy innovations that might improve our understanding of land use decisions, or discussthe need for a careful reevaluation of the process of thinking about land and its fundamental importance in a society.

On many dimensions, these chapters offer optimistic outlooks for the future of land. Technology is changing the way land is now managed and used; and the evidence of improvements in land records, agricultural technology, estimation of land values, and dissemination of information about land use is encouraging. Worth considering are the suggestions to examine land decisions within a framework of sustainable development, particularly regarding the sustainability of food supplies.

Contents

Introduction
1. Changing Views, Values, and Uses of Land, Gary C. Cornia and Chi-Mei Lin

Public Finance and Land Administration
2. The Property Tax in Developing Countries: Current Practice and Prospects, Roy Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
3. Property Taxation in a Global Economy: Is a Capital Gains Tax on Real Property a Good Idea?, Sally Wallace

Local Economic Development
4. The Sprawl of Economics: A Response to Jan Brueckner, Gerrit-Jan Knaap
5. Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Environment: A Nature Conservation Approach for the Green Island of Taiwan, John Chien-Yuan Lin
6. The Role of Local Government in Contemporary Economic Development, Michael I. Luger

Institutional Reform
7. Property Valuation in the Twenty-first Century, Peter F. Colwell and Joseph W. Trefzger
8. Global Challenges for Land Administration and Sustainable Development, Ian Williamson
9. The Multilevel Development Bank as Midwife: Delivering Property Rights Reform, John W. Bruce

Changing Visions of Land
10. Land and Economic Development: New Institutional Arrangements, Daniel W. Bromley
11. Social Dimensions of Rural Resource Sustainability, Anthony Bebbington
12. Future Challenges of Sustainable Land Use in Taiwan, Kuo-Ching Lin
13. Environmental Planning for a Sustainable Food Supply, Robert E. Evenson
14. Toward a 2015 Vision of Land, Jim Riddell

About the Editors

Gary C. Cornia is professor of public management in the Romney Institute of Public Management at the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He is also a member of the boards of directors of the Lincoln Institute and ICLPST.

Jim Riddell is former chief of FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) Land Tenure Service. He serves as a course coordinator at the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan and is based in Edina, Minnesota.