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1. Exploring Sustainable Development in Latin America

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2024
   By Carina Arvizu Machado, May 14, 2024

   Addressing poverty, climate change, and other threats to Latin American settlements

2. Lincoln Award Recognizes Outstanding Land Policy Journalism in Latin America

   Revista Land Lines
   Diciembre 2023
   By Jon Gorey, December 11, 2023

   Investigations of climate funding inequties, illegal land grabs, and water scarcity earn kudos in annual competition

3. “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.

4. Meet the Lincoln Institute’s New Director for Latin America and the Caribbean

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2022
   By Will Jason, October 17, 2022. 

   With Martim Smolka’s retirement earlier this year, the Lincoln Institute has a new face in Latin America and the Caribbean, Anacláudia Rossbach, who took over as director for the region...

5. A Day in the Life

   Videos y multimedia
   Octubre 2022

   What does the work of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy look like on the ground? We outfitted several team members and partners with 360-degree cameras and asked them to visually share the places...

6. A Global Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Housing Outcomes

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Cynthia Goytia and Eric J. Heikkila

   This paper examines the relationship between land use regulations and housing outcomes, especially housing affordability and informality. Using a unique and important database of 191 metropolitan...

7. The Effects of Payments for Environmental Services on Peri-Urban Land Change in Mexico City's Conservation Zone

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Julia C. Bausch, Elizabeth Tellman, Alison Acosta-Oakes, Amy Lerner, Enrique Castelán-Crespo, and Bertha Hernández-Aguilar

   In many cities of the developing world, informal settlements are a key place for people with low incomes to access housing. Informal urbanization drives land-use change at the urban periphery:...

8. Climate Change Adaptation and Property Values

   A Survey of the Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Katherine A. Kiel

   This paper surveys the current literature of the impact of climate change adaptation on residential property values. Several categories of adaptation are considered including ecosystem management,...

9. The Statute of the Metropolis and Planning Reform in Brazil

   Analyzing Land Use Planning Practices and Metropolitan Land Conflicts
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2021
   Abigail Friendly and Felipe Francisco De Souza

   In 2015, Brazil enacted the Statute of the Metropolis (Federal Law No. 13,089) to regulate the establishment of metropolitan areas and regional public policies throughout the country. This research...

10. Value Capture and the Role of Land in the Equality of Opportunities

    The Case of São Paulo, Brazil
    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 2021
    Ciro Biderman

    São Paulo has developed a unique instrument for capturing land value: charging for the right to build. This instrument has been evolving since mid-1970s and is now firmly established in the...