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1. Reinventing Conservation Easements

   A Critical Examination and Ideas for Reform
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2005
   Jeff Pidot

   Conservation easements represent one of the most rapid trends in land conservation. Beyond tax credits, tax deductions, and other public subsidies that provide financial incentive for landowners to...

2. Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Diciembre 2002
   Douglas R. Porter and Allan D. Wallis

   A growing number of urban challenges—from threats of environmental degradation and sprawl, to social and fiscal disparity, to economic transformation and globalization—call for action at...

3. Regionalism on Purpose

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Agosto 2001
   Kathryn A. Foster

   In the past decade, interest in and experience with U.S. metropolitan regionalism have mushroomed as public officials, civic leaders, and metropolitan residents seek to address complicated regional...

4. Mediating Land Use Disputes

   Pros and Cons
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Abril 2000
   Lawrence Susskind, Mieke van der Wansem, and Armand Ciccarelli

   Land use planning in America began with a concern for the efficient allocation of land, but has shifted to a concern for procedural fairness in allocating public resources, which requires increased...

5. State Property Rights Laws

   The Impacts of Those Laws on My Land
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Abril 1999
   Harvey M. Jacobs

   The conservative land use movement that emerged in the 1990s to promote the interests of private property owners has pursued a vigorous legislative agenda at all levels of government. All 50 state...

6. Open Space Conservation

   Investing In Your Community's Economic Health
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Febrero 1998
   John Tibbetts

   This report describes several techniques of delineating the economic value of open space, explaining their strengths and limitations. The report also analyzes the effectiveness, practicality, and...

7. Risks and Rewards of Brownfield Redevelopment

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Abril 1997
   James G. Wright

   Brownfields are abandoned or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination that may present direct...

8. The New Urbanism

   Hope or Hype for American Communities?
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 1996
   William Fulton

   Since the early 1980s, a group of planners, architects, and developers have been rebelling against “conventional” suburban development as practiced in the United States since the end of...

9. Alternatives to Sprawl

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Diciembre 1995
   Dwight Young

   Sprawl is not a recent phenomenon. There is general agreement that it began in the construction boom of the post-World War II years and really came into its own with the initiation of the Interstate...

10. Managing Land as Ecosystem and Economy

    Enfoques en políticas de suelo
    Noviembre 1995
    Edited by Alice E. Ingerson

    Environmentalists and resource users have banded together behind the common goal, or at least the common slogan, of “sustainable development.” What are the economic, political, and social...