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1. Smart Growth Forum Examines Sustainable Communities Program

   Comunicados de prensa
   Noviembre 22, 2011

   For Immediate ReleaseContact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Nov. 22, 2011) – Leaders from around the New England region will examine what current funding battles in Washington means...

2. Climate Change and Land Policies

   Comunicados de prensa
   Mayo 11, 2011

3. Estimating Agricultural Use Value for Property Tax Purposes

   How do State Programs Assess Use Value?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2011
   John E. Anderson

   All fifty states in the United States provide property tax preferences for agricultural land via some form of use-value assessment. By this assessment approach agricultural land is valued in its...

4. Regularización de asentamientos informales en América Latina

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Octubre 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic...

5. Regularização de Assentamentos Informais na América Latina

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Octubre 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic...

6. Regularization of Informal Settlements in Latin America

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   This report provides municipal and community leaders with an overview of the challenge of informal settlements in Latin America, along with recommendations for improving regularization policies. It...

7. Land Use and Vehicle Miles of Travel in the Climate Change Debate

   Getting Smarter Than Your Average Bear
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2011
   Marlon G. Boarnet, Douglas Houston, Gavin Ferguson, and Steven Spears

   In this paper, Marlon G. Boarnet, Douglas Houston, Gavin Ferguson, and Steven Spears analyze the nonlinear relationship between land use and VMT and related thresholds. Based on a travel diary survey...

8. Property in Land and Other Resources

   Libros
   Noviembre 2011
   Edited by Daniel H. Cole and Elinor Ostrom, with a foreword by Douglass C. North

   This book by Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, shows how property rights systems affect the use of scarce natural resources. It is a rich source of...

9. The Impact of Climate Change on Land

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2011
   Robert Mendelsohn

   In this paper, Robert Mendelsohn discusses land use changes in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and recreational activities. Although the precise magnitude of climate change is not known,...

10. Explorando el futuro de la conservación de grandes paisajes

    Revista Land Lines
    Octubre 2011
    James N. Levitt

    A pesar de las evidentes restricciones presupuestarias a nivel federal, se encuentran disponibles incontables oportunidades para llevar a cabo proyectos de conservacion a escala expansiva, con un...