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1. 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...

2. 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...

3. 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...

4. Making Room for a Planet of Cities

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Enero 2011
   Shlomo Angel, with Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. Blei

   This report—the precursor to Planet of Cities—provides policy makers and planners with a conceptual framework for understanding urban expansion and provides research-based suggestions for...

5. 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...

6. Climate Change and Land Policies

   Libros
   Mayo 2011
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   Developing policies that will keep climate change in check has become a global priority, as increasing greenhouse gas emissions contribute to extreme weather patterns. If these emissions remain...

7. China’s Housing Reform and Outcomes

   Libros
   Abril 2011
   Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man

   “This book provides a unique evaluation of the most sweeping, swift, and successful housing policy reform ever conducted in any country. It is indispensable for any professional involved in...

8. Regional Planning in America

   Practice and Prospect
   Libros
   Abril 2011
   Edited by Ethan Seltzer and Armando Carbonell

   “Regional Planning in America is an extraordinary collection that presents a clear view of the field and highlights its many forms and applications for the twenty-first century. It is essential...

9. Opportunities and Limits for the Evolution of Property Rights Institutions

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Thráinn Eggertsson

   In this paper, Thráinn Eggertsson examines how assumptions based on national politics and hard-to-obtain and limited data yield valuable tools for exploring the logic of institutional changes to...

10. Gold Rush Legacy

    American Minerals and the Knowledge Economy
    Ponencias
    Noviembre 2011
    Karen Clay and Gavin Wright

    In this paper, Karen Clay and Gavin Wright argue that the gold-mining camps of California had a more complex governance structure than economic historians have supposed. In some respects, the mining...