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Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities
Enfoques en políticas de sueloJulio 2023By Joseph Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi VelascoPreparing the country for a low-carbon future that is economically and racially just is an enormous undertaking. Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities investigates how local governments in...
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Buy-In for Buyouts
The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood ZonesEnfoques en políticas de sueloSeptiembre 2016Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff, and Dare BrawleyThis report offers policy recommendations to increase participation in buyout programs and to make them more effective tools for building resilience in coastal communities. Based on a study of...
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Lessons from Sandy
Federal Policies to Build Climate-Resilient Coastal RegionsEnfoques en políticas de sueloAbril 2014Robert Pirani and Laura TolkoffThis report, spurred by aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, identifies a set of policies, regulations, and administrative practices that federal agencies can adopt to help coastal metropolitan regions...
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Making Room for a Planet of Cities
Enfoques en políticas de sueloEnero 2011Shlomo Angel, with Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. BleiThis 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...
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Large Landscape Conservation
A Strategic Framework for Policy and ActionEnfoques en políticas de sueloMayo 2010Matthew McKinney, Lynn Scarlett, and Daniel KemmisThe most important land and water conservation issues facing North America—including land use patterns, sustainable water management, biodiversity protection, and adaptation to climate change...
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Planning for Climate Change in the West
Enfoques en políticas de sueloEnero 2010Rebecca Carter and Susan CulpPlanning for Climate Change in the West offers regional planners techniques for addressing climate change concerns while they focus on issues affecting regional growth. A warmer and dryer climate in...
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Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation
Enfoques en políticas de sueloAgosto 2009Patrick M. Condon, Duncan Cavens, and Nicole MillerLand use patterns and urban form can strongly impact an urban community’s contribution to global climate change through the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Key contributors to a...
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Managing Land as Ecosystem and Economy
Enfoques en políticas de sueloNoviembre 1995Edited by Alice E. IngersonEnvironmentalists and resource users have banded together behind the common goal, or at least the common slogan, of “sustainable development.” What are the economic, political, and social...