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1. Pension Legacy Costs and Local Government Finances

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2012
   Richard F. Dye and Tracy M. Gordon

   Local government pensions are significantly underfunded because many governments have not set aside enough funds each year to cover the liabilities incurred. In effect, they are borrowing to pay for...

2. Report from the President

   Fostering Networks on Conservation and Affordable Housing
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2012
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Policies affecting the use, regulation, and taxation of land in the United States are promulgated and applied primarily by states and local governments, and real estate markets are largely local and...

3. Creative Conservation

   Reflections on a Way to the Future
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2012
   Bob Bendick

   The conservation challenge before us, against all odds and whether we like it or not, is to create a future for the benefit of the people, based on a respect for and understanding of the multiple...

4. Faculty Profile

   Karl E. “Chip” Case
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2012

   Karl E. Case is professor of economics emeritus at Wellesley College, where he held the Katherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Chair in Economics and taught for 34 years. He is currently a senior...

5. Report from the President

   Infrastructure
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2012
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Infrastructure, defined to include transport, telecommunication, electric power, water, and sanitation, is high on the agenda of both industrial and developing countries. In the United States,...

6. A New Look at Value Capture in Latin America

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2012
   Martim O. Smolka

   It is important to shift the debate on value capture from ideological, wishful-thinking rhetoric to a more technical and practical context grounded in evidence that it can be done and has been...

7. Managing Risk and Uncertainty

   Collaborative Approaches for Climate Change
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2012
   Elizabeth Fierman, Patrick Field, and Stephen Aldrich

   To make decisions today that relate to the impacts of climate change in the future, it is necessary to build capacity for managing risk, uncertainty, and complexity in a way that remains closely...

8. Faculty Profile

   Siqi Zheng
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2012

   Siqi Zheng is an associate professor at the Hang Lung Center for Real Estate and the deputy head of the Department of Construction Management, both at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. She...

9. Report from the President

   The Evolution of Computer-Based Planning Tools
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2012
   Gregory K. Ingram

   The use of computer models in the planning of land use and transportation and for the analysis of urban housing markets has a long and variable history. One pioneering application of a large-scale...

10. Reconsidering Preferential Assessment of Rural Land

    Revista Land Lines
    Abril 2012
    Richard W. England

    Preferential assessment of rural land has become a central feature of property taxation in the United States. Governors and state legislatures need to pause and consider whether various proposed...