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1. “Mayor’s Desk” Book Highlights Crucial Work of Local Government Leaders

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2023
   By Kristina McGeehan, November 7, 2023

   20 innovative leaders from five continents share their struggles and successes, along with strategies for making cities more equitable, sustainable, and healthy places to live and work.

2. Land-Based Mitigation Strategies and Their Implications for Local Communities in the Global South

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2023
   Katherine A. Snyder

   Land-based carbon mitigation strategies are receiving considerable interest for their potential to sink carbon or provide sources of alterative clean energy. The actors and agencies in this sector...

3. Effects of Flood Hazard on Property Prices in Cape Town, South Africa

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2023
   Claus Rabe and David Karpul

   In many cities in the Developing South, a growing number of households live in areas prone to flooding. Past research indicates that flood risk has a discount effect on property prices, an important...

4. Land Lines, Enero 2023

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2023

   Este número explora los esfuerzos estatales de reforma de zonificación, un experimento ambicioso de The Port de Cincinnati por preservar la capacidad de pago de vivienda en esa ciudad,...

5. El escritorio del alcalde

   Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra Leona
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2023
   Por Anthony Flint

   La alcaldesa Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr asumió su cargo en Freetown, Sierra Leona, en mayo de 2018, después de desempeñarse como jefa del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Freetown. La profesional de las...

6. Land Lines, Octubre 2022

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2022
   Editado por Katharine Wroth

   En este número, se analizan diversas medidas que las ciudades están tomando para mejorar su infraestructura, por ejemplo, implementar fondos colaborativos de agua, eliminar requisitos...

7. Land Matters Podcast: Confronting Extreme Heat in Africa: A Conversation with the Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Diciembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, December 12, 2022

   The mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, discusses appointing Africa’s first chief heat officer, fighting climate change with land use planning, and overhauling the property tax system to ensure fiscal sustinability.

8. Research on Land-Based Financing Approaches for Climate Action

   Solicitud de propuestas
   Febrero 2023

9. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...

10. Integrated Policy and Planning for Connectivity Conservation

    Lessons from Kenya, Romania, and Vermont, U.S.A.
    Documentos de trabajo
    Junio 2022
    Zachary Wurtzebach 

    Ecological connectivity—the unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes that sustain life on earth—is fundamental for biodiversity conservation in the 21st century. In...