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1. Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Agosto 2009
   Patrick M. Condon, Duncan Cavens, and Nicole Miller

   Land use patterns and urban form can strongly impact an urban community’s contribution to global climate change through the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Key contributors to a...

2. Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation

   A Heritage of Civic Engagement
   Libros
   Febrero 2009
   Edited by Charles H.W. Foster

   Many partners have been involved over the last decade in developing an archive of materials documenting the evolution of land conservation in the six New England states. Coordinated by Charles H. W....

3. Should Decreases in Property Value Caused by Regulations Be Compensated?

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Abraham Bell

   Ideally, government could recoup the benefits of land use planning and redistribute them to those who bear the costs. In this case takings compensation is justified. Given the reciprocal nature of...

4. Private Conservation Easements

   Balancing Private Initiative and the Public Interest
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Gerald Korngold

   A commonly used property rights approach to conserving the environment is private conservation easements. Gerald Korngold discusses the benefits of this policy and proposes methods to mediate some of...

5. Land Lines, October 2009

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2009
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue looks at the importance of conserving U.S. forests in mitigating the effects of climate change; an overview of the achievements and obstacles of privately-held U.S. conservation easements...

6. Local Land Use Planning and Climate Change Policy

   Summary Report from Focus Groups and Interviews With Local Officials in the Intermountain West
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2009
   David Metz and Curtis Below

   Planning for climate change entails many challenges, and in the Intermountain West this may be particularly so. In early 2009, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz...

7. Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Local Economies

   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2009
   Rosalind H. Bark

   The 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...

8. Report from the President

   Climate Change and Urban Development
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2009
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Accumulating evidence indicates that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, are raising average temperatures, acidifying and raising the level of oceans, and...

9. The Role of Forests in U.S. Climate Policy

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2009
   Laurie A. Wayburn

   Forest loss is part of the climate problem, but forest conservation is part of the solution. The comprehensive inclusion of domestic forests in national climate policy is essential to achieving the...