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1. What Do We Do with the Land Left Behind?

   XSP for Floodplain Buyout Parcels
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Kelly Leilani Main, Risa Hiser, Victoria Woods, Osamu Kumasaka, Maggie Tsang, and Isaac Stein

   Flood risk is increasing across the country due to extreme precipitation, outdated infrastructure, poor development practices, and climate change. As climate impacts like storm surge and sea level...

2. Using Green and Blue Infrastructure for Urban Flood Mitigation

   Simulating Scenarios for Climate Change, GBI Technologies, and Land Policy
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Nilo Nascimento, Renan Pereira Almeida, Priscilla Moura, Talita Silva, Michelle Reboita, Wilson Fernandes, Deyvid Rosa, Pedro A. Patrício, Rafael A. S. Drumond, Kauê Melo, André Silva, and Christie Souza

   Technical approaches inspired by concepts such as green and blue infrastructure (GBI) may offer alternatives for urban adaptation to climate change with significant environmental and socioeconomic...

3. An Urban Planner’s Guide to Climate Information

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Donovan Finn , Ellie Evans , and Kevin A. Reed

   As the risks to communities from climate change becomes more pronounced, urban planners need access to better and more user-friendly forms of climate data for a variety of planning tasks ranging from...

4. Scenario Planning Using Climate Data

   New Tools Merging Science and Practice
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Donovan Finn and Naomi Miller

   The integration of climate data into scenario planning is an important next step in helping local planning practitioners more usefully engage with the public around questions of how to address local...

5. Exploratory Scenario Planning for Climate In-Migration

   A Guide for Cities in the Great Lakes Region
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Nicholas B. Rajkovich, Terry Schwarz, Gwyneth A. Harris, and Adara Zullo

   Exploratory Scenario Planning for Climate In-Migration: A Guide for Cities in the Great Lakes Region describes exploratory scenario planning techniques that communities can use to develop...

6. 2019 Survey on the Use of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) in Government Assessment Offices

   An Analysis of AVM Use, Acceptance, and Barriers to More Widespread Implementation
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2022
   Paul Bidanset and Ronald Rakow

   Accurate and consistent assessments are critical components of an equitable property tax system. Automated valuation models (AVMs) are programmed statistical and mathematical models used to estimate...

7. Fiscal Self-Sufficiency, Debt Limits, and Fiscal Sustainability in China’s Emerging Municipal Bond Market

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Yu Shi , Qing Li , and Robert Bland

   China’s municipal bond market suffers from a tension between centralized policymaking by the national government and the decentralized implementation of those policies by subnational...

8. Understanding the Spatial Impact of COVID-19

   New Insights from Beijing after One Year into Post-Lockdown Recovery
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Ling Li and Li Wan

   This paper studies the spatial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of intra-city population and housing rent changes in Beijing, China. Drawing on multiple geospatial data sets, we find...

9. Inclusionary Zoning in New York and Paris

   Trojan Horse or Antidote to Gentrification?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Lance Freeman and Magda Maaoui
   With research assistance from Xiyu Chen and Yining Lei

   This study addresses the question of whether inclusionary zoning impacts disadvantaged neighborhoods by serving as a signal for an up-and-coming neighborhood, thereby triggering gentrification. We...

10. Integrated Policy and Planning for Connectivity Conservation

    Lessons from Kenya, Romania, and Vermont, U.S.A.
    Documentos de trabajo
    Junio 2022
    Zachary Wurtzebach 

    Ecological connectivity—the unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes that sustain life on earth—is fundamental for biodiversity conservation in the 21st century. In...