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Conserving Biodiversity on South Africa’s Privately-Owned Grasslands
Farmer Experiences with Protected AreasDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2020South Africa’s Biodiversity Stewardship Initiative and Protected Areas Act are programs designed to help protect threatened species and provide other conservation benefits. Private grasslands...
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Taxing and Untaxing Land
Open Space and Conservation EasementsOtroSeptiembre 2006Joan M. YoungmanThis article was originally published in State Tax Notes, a journal by Tax Analysts, on September 11, 2006. One of the most dramatic recent developments in the usually staid evolution of property law...
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Conservation Easements Outside of the United States
Documentos de trabajoAgosto 2011For the past thirty years, nonprofits in the United States have been authorized to acquire and hold conservation easements, which are perpetual restrictions that prevent alteration of the subject...
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Voting for Public Funding of Open Space
Documentos de trabajoNoviembre 2006Jeffrey O. SundbergOver one thousand conservation referenda have been on ballots across the country between 2000 and 2005. More than three-quarters of them have been approved by voters. This public form of land...
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Tax and Property Value Effects of Conservation Easements
Documentos de trabajoMayo 2006Jeffrey O. Sundberg and Richard F. DyeA variety of tax incentives encourage property owners to place conservation easements on their property. This paper calculates sample tax effects for a range of tax incentives and shows that many...
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Reinventing Conservation Easements
A Critical Examination and Ideas for ReformDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2005Jeff PidotThis working paper has been published as a Lincoln Institute Policy Focus Report. No recent happening in land conservation rivals the deployment from coast-to-coast of conservation easements. Beyond...
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The Value of Open Space
Evidence from Studies of Nonmarket BenefitsDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2005Virginia McConnell and Margaret WallsOpen space provides a range of benefits to citizens of a community, beyond the benefits that accrue to private landowners. Parks and natural areas can be used for recreation; wetlands and forests...
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Assessing Land Encumbered by Conservation Restrictions
Documentos de trabajoMayo 2003James J. Czupryna, ASAThe assessment of land in Massachusetts encumbered by conservation restrictions was not a particular problem in the past since most towns tended to assess large tracts of land at comparatively low...
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Land Value Taxation and Eco-taxation
Their Social and Economic Inter-relationshipDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2000Nathaniel Lichfield and Owen ConnellanThis Report is a preliminary exploration of the inter-relationship between two forms of taxation: the long established land value taxation an the recently emerging eco-taxation. The exploration...
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Public Values and Conservation Land
A Case Study of the Norumbega Project, Weston, MADocumentos de trabajoSeptiembre 1999Charles J. FausoldThis paper explores public values and attitudes toward conservation land by tracing the history of a proposed conversion of town conservation land to water supply purposes in Weston, Massachusetts....
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