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1. Planning and the Climate Change in the Caribbean

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2013
   Michel Frojmovic, Jennifer Graeff, and Asad Mohammed

   Climate change poses a tangible threat to countries throughout the world, affecting populations, economies, environment and overall security. As more studies, reports and statistics are released, it...

2. Assessment of Land Use Effect on Climate Change Sensitivity on the Northern Coastal Zone of Honduras

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Arie Sanders, Denisse McLean, and Alexandra Manueles

   In this paper we examine the effect of land use and land use change on climate change sensitivity on the north coast of Honduras. To reach this objective, we ran simulations to analyze the spatial...

3. El impacto del sistema de Transporte Rápido de Buses (Metrobús) en los precios del suelo en la Ciudad de México

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Durfari Janive Velandia Naranjo

   En este artículo se estima el efecto del sistema de Transporte Rápido de Buses en la Ciudad de México en los precios del suelo de uso residencial en el mercado formal. Espec...

4. The Impact of Bus Rapid Transit System on Land Prices in Mexico City

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Durfari Janive Velandia Naranjo

   This paper estimates the effect of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system of Mexico City on residential land prices in the formal real estate market. Specifically, we estimate the effects of Line 1 (on...

5. Strategic Land Use Planning for Climate Change-Driven Water Shortages in El Alto, Bolivia

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Linda Shi, Marisa Escobar, Brian Joyce, and James Kostaras

   The highland city of El Alto, Bolivia, is vulnerable to climate change due to the region’s declining water resources and its socio-economic, fiscal and governance constraints. El Alto could...

6. Assessing Urban Land Use Regulation in Argentina

   Literature Review and Research Strategy
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Cynthia Goytia and Ricardo A. Pasquini

   This paper reports the advances made in our research on urban land regulation in Argentina during 2010 and 2011 and describes what we plan to do next. In this research we aim at a better...

7. The Resolution of Land-Use Conflicts in Sao Paulo

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Salo Coslovsky

   São Paulo, Brazil, is a densely populated, globally connected urban center whose rapid growth has been associated with an increasing number of land-use conflicts. In this paper, I use...

8. Water, Water Everywhere

   Sea Level Rise and Land Use Planning in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Pará
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Thomas E. Bassett and Gregory R. Scruggs

   The Caribbean and northern coastal Brazil face severe impacts from climate change, particularly from sea-level rise. This paper analyses current land use and development policies in three Caribbean...

9. Rio de Janeiro Residents Associations and Recent Favela Real Estate Trends

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Gregory R. Scruggs and Arthur Acoca-Pidolle

   Favelas in Rio de Janeiro have been targeted by public policies in the last four years designed to improve quality of life through improved public safety, transportation, housing, and social...

10. The Urban Property Tax (IPTU) in Brazil

    An Analysis of the Use of the Property Tax as a Revenue Source by Brazilian Municipalities
    Documentos de trabajo
    Julio 2013
    José Roberto Rodrigues Afonso, Erika Amorim Araujo, and Marcos Antonio Rios da Nóbrega

    This paper analyzes the relative importance of the property tax as a revenue source for Brazilian municipalities. The paper, which was originally written in Portuguese in 2010, provides a diagnostic...