Property Rights and Land Policies (Book)

Editor(s): Ingram, Gregory K., and Yu-Hung Hong
Publication Date: May 2009

$30.00; 496 pages; Inventory ID 188-0; English; ISBN 978-1-55844-188-0

FREE DOWNLOADS BELOW

PURCHASE PRINT EDITION

PURCHASE KINDLE EDITION


Property Rights and Land Policies Chapter 1	PDF	440 KB

Property Rights and Land Policies Chapter 2 Elinor Ostrom Design Principles	PDF	500 KB

Abstract

The Lincoln Institute offers a reduced price on a set of 4 Land Policy books which collect selected proceedings from its 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 annual land policy conferences. This set includes
Land Policies and Their Outcomes (2007),
Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies (2008),
Property Rights and Land Policies (2009), and
Municipal Revenues and Land Policies (2010).

Land Policy Series of 4 Books.

Lincoln Institute’s third annual land policy conference explores the connections between property rights and land policies in developed and developing country contexts. Property Rights and Land Policies, draws together cross-disciplinary scholarly work from Lincoln Institute’s third annual land policy conference. Essays from a variety of land policy and economic experts explore the connections between property rights and land policies in developed and developing country contexts.

The chapter authors discuss a range of land policy topics including regulatory takings, the use of eminent domain and expropriation in land assembly, the emergence of private property rights in transition economies, marketable emission permits, natural resource management, and the impacts of tenure choice on land and housing development.

This book is part of a series of volumes featuring scholarly work related to Lincoln Institute of Land Policy conferences.

Contents

I. Introduction

1. Examining Land Policies from a Property Rights Perspective, Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

II. The Design and Evolution of Property Rights Institutions

2. Design Principles of Robust Property Rights Institutions: What Have We Learned? Elinor Ostrom

3. U.S. Private Property Rights in International Perspective, Harvey M. Jacobs

4. China’s Land System: Past, Present, and Future, Dwight H. Perkins
Commentary: Scott Rozelle

5. Property Rights and Real Estate Privatization in Russia: A Work in Progress, Bertrand Renaud, Joseph K. Eckert, and R. Jerome Anderson
Commentary: Robert M. Buckley

6. Developing Land Markets Within the Constraint of State Ownership in Vietnam, Stephen B. Butler
Commentary: Annette M. Kim

III. Public Compensations for Takings

7. The Use of Eminent Domain in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City, Antonio Azuela
Commentary: Vicki Been

8. The Myth and Reality of Eminent Domain for Economic Development Practice, Jerold S. Kayden
Commentary: John D. Echeverria

9. Property Rights Protection and Spatial Planning in European Countries, Vincent Renard
Commentary: Barrie Needham

10. Should Decreases in Property Value Caused by Regulations Be Compensated? Abraham Bell
Commentary: Perry Shapiro

IV. Property Rights Approaches to Achieving Land Policy Goals

11. Land Registration, Economic Development, and Poverty Reduction, Klaus Deininger and Gershon Feder
Commentary: Alain Durand-Lasserve

12. Looking Beyond Land Titling and Credit Accessibility for the Urban Poor, Edesio Fernandes
Commentary: Ernesto Schargrodsky

13. Property Rights Created Under a Federalist Approach to Tradable Emissions Policy, Dallas Burtraw and Rich Sweeney
Commentary: Wallace E. Oates

14. Private Conservation Easements: Balancing Private Initiative and the Public Interest, Gerald Korngold
Commentary: Nancy A. McLaughlin

15. The Role of Private-Sector Developers in Challenges to Local Land Use Regulations, Keri-Nicole Dillman and Lynn M. Fisher
Commentary: Alexander von Hoffman

16. The Mediocrity of Government Subsidies to Mixed-Income Housing Projects, Robert C. Ellickson
Commentary: Ingrid Gould Ellen