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Equity in Green Infrastructure
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2024Nathaniel R. Mattison and Kyle McKenneyMany municipalities introduced their first stand-alone green infrastructure (“GI”) plans in the late 2000s and early 2010s, specifically as a means of achieving compliance with water...
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Local Land Use Planning and Climate Change Policy
Summary Report from Focus Groups and Interviews With Local Officials in the Intermountain WestDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2009David Metz and Curtis BelowPlanning for climate change entails many challenges, and in the Intermountain West this may be particularly so. In early 2009, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz...
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Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Local Economies
Documentos de trabajoOctubre 2009Rosalind H. BarkThe Intermountain West is in the bull’s eye of climate change impacts in the United States. Climate change impacts will range from increased risk of droughts, floods and wildfires, landscape level...
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Overview of the National Park System Reform Process in China
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2023Yufei Wang, Yixin Hu, and Jingyi LiuChina is at a turning point from a high economic growth rate to a low one, and the country needs to carry out policy reforms for better governance. In recent years, the National Park system reform...
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Valuing Density
An Evaluation of the Extent to which American, Australian, and Canadian Cities Account for the Climate Benefits of Density through Environmental ReviewDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2022Katrina Wyman, Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Adalene Minelli, and Sara SavaraniThis study looks at the extent to which major cities in the United States, Australia, and Canada assess the climate impacts of densification through the environmental review process. Research...
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Greenventory 2.0
Sustainability Lessons from Small and Midsize Legacy CitiesDocumentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2020Joseph Schilling and Gabriella VelascoThis working paper builds the policy case for why sustainability presents small-to-midsize legacy cities with a promising pathway for their regeneration. Its conceptual foundation rests at the...
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Políticas de Suelo, Derecho Urbanístico y Cambio Climático
Instrumentos Urbanísticos-Tributarios como Medidas para Enfrentar al Cambio ClimáticoDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Safira De La Sala, Melinda Maldonado, and Rachelle AltermanEl objetivo de esta investigación es identificar ejemplos de instrumentos de financiamiento basados en el uso del suelo (LBFT, por sus siglas en inglés) que estén siendo...
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Exploring the Use of Land Value Capture Instruments for Green Resilient Infrastructure Benefits
A Framework Applied in Cali, ColombiaDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2019Stelios Grafakos, Alexandra Tsatsou, Luca D'Acci, James Kostaras, Adriana Patricia López Valencia, Nohemi Ramirez Aranda, and Barbara SummersBuilding resilient infrastructure is one of the major challenges cities face due to urbanization rates and climate change. Financing these investments is an additional challenge particularly for...
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An Open Field
Emerging Opportunities for a Global Private Land Conservation MovementDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2014This paper explores the history of the land trust movement in the US, looks at specific examples of the growing private land conservation movement around the globe, and proposes a model that includes...