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Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their …
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Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their …
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Transferable development rights (TDRs) are a market-based approach to land conservation. They allow the development … restriction or conservation easement and the “receiving” property permitted more dense development than would otherwise be allowed …
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land in three federal programs—the Endangered Species Act, the Conservation Reserve Program, and Section 404 of the Clean …, or critical habitats for endangered species, are found on their properties. The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP …
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Transferable development rights (TDRs) can be used as a local planning tool to preserve land for particular uses. TDRs separate ownership of the right to develop land from ownership of the land itself, creating a market in which the development rights can be bought and sold. Landowners who sell...
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The paper explores a number of issues related to lot size and urban density. First, trends in single-family residential lot size over the past 35 years are examined in eight counties in the state of Maryland. We find that there was a trend toward larger lot sizes in many suburban counties in the...
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Concern about “open space” is growing. Conservation advocates worry that private land use decisionmakers preserve too … liabilities. Both factors may be empirically important, although tax deductibility may have larger conservation effects than does …? Do they motivate enough conservation of open space? Do tax incentives target the right conservation priorities? …
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In many communities on the urban–rural fringe, subdivisions are subject to “clustering” rules, in which houses must be located on a portion of the total land area and the remainder of the land is left as open space. This open space may be undisturbed forest or pastureland, or it may...
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government policies in determining national land-use changes from 1982 to 1997. The policies we examine are the Conservation …
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Many economists see current land use patterns as inefficient due to various market failures, and planners argue that current patterns do not follow sound planning practice. One policy of interest to both groups is transferable development rights (TDR). TDRs allow the development rights from land...
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