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1. Infrastructure and Land Policies

   Livros
   Maio 2013
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Karin L. Brandt

   More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence...

2. China’s Environmental Policy and Urban Development

   Livros
   Fevereiro 2013
   Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man

   “It is well known that rapid urbanization and industrialization in China have had serious consequences for China's environment. Far less recognized are the wide ranging efforts undertaken...

3. Economic Regulation of Utility Infrastructure

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2013
   Janice A. Beecher

   In this paper, Janice A. Beecher examines public infrastructure as having characteristics of both public and private goods that earn a separate classification as a toll good. Utilities demonstrate a...

4. Chicago and Its Skyway

   Lessons from an Urban Megaproject
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2013
   Louise Nelson Dyble

   In this paper, Louise Nelson Dyble examines the history of political leadership throughout the Chicago Skyway’s development as a public project and assesses the lessons from its eventual...

5. Metropolitan Cities

   Their Rise, Role, and Future
   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Shahid Yusuf

   In this paper, the author points out that the world’s population crossed the 7 billion mark in 2011, more than half of it in cities. Each week the ranks of urban residents increase by 1million and on...

6. Land Lines, October 2013

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2013
   Edited by Maureen Clarke

   This issue looks at integrated coastal zone management tactics of Barbados; state-owned lands in the U.S. Intermountain West that offer opportunities for education-related funding and renewable...

7. Land Lines, July 2013

   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 2013
   Edited by Maureen Clarke

   In this issue, we feature articles on a megaproject to transform Puerto Madero, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the conservation efforts of Kenyon College; and ongoing research into the role of government in successful post-disaster recovery efforts.

8. Gestión de zonas costeras

   El modelo de Barbados
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2013
   Gregory R. Scruggs and Thomas E. Bassett

   A medida que el cambio climático va incrementando la amenaza de huracanes en el Caribe, Barbados se ha convertido en el líder regional de gestión integrada de zonas costeras...

9. Coastal Zone Management

   The Barbados Model
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2013
   Gregory R. Scruggs and Thomas E. Bassett

   As climate change heightens the threat of hurricanes in the Caribbean, Barbados is proving to be the region’s leader in integrated coastal zone management—leveraging foresight,...

10. Arrendamiento de energía renovable en suelos de fideicomisos estatales del oeste intermontañoso

    Revista Land Lines
    Outubro 2013
    Alison Berry

    Los suelos de fideicomisos estatales en el oeste intermontañoso podrían sentar las bases del desarrollo de energía renovable para financiar la educación y otras...