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Büttner, Thiess - 2021

This paper explores the effects of fiscal competition on local land use. A theoretical analysis considers the tradeoff faced by a local government deciding about the amount of land made available for commercial or residential uses, when its expansion has adverse effects on the quality of life....

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Institutional Fragmentation and Urbanisation in the EU Cities

Cappelli, Federica; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano - 2020

This article examines the relationship between institutional fragmentation and the spatial extent of cities in Europe’s Functional Urban Areas. European Union planning regulations vary across member states, but in most cases, local authorities determine land use within the more general...

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Dynamics of Urban Sprawl: Applying a CA-based Model to Explore Future Development Scenarios in Thessaloniki

Lagarias, Apostolos - 2013

This study explores the dynamics of urban sprawl through the application of DYNAMA, a Cellular Automata (CA) based model. The model simulates the urban land use expansion process in a disaggregated field of land units taking into account a set of local characteristics of cells and neighborhood...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397347

Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon

Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014

Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...

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The Effect Of Current And Future Land Use On House Prices

Pouyanne, Guillaume; Dantas, Monique; Gaschet, Frédéric - 2013

The control of urban sprawl often involves policies of allowable use zoning. By protecting large areas from development, such policies may, in fact, provoke ?leapfrog? development through their inflationary effect on the land and property markets in the area which is already urbanised. This...

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Is a Sustainable Land-Use Policy in Germany Possible?

Fischer, Beate; Jöst, Frank; Klauer, Bernd; Schiller, … - 2009

Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analyse driving forces for land-use conversion and to assess, whether the German political "30- hectares-goal" is feasible given the current institutional setting. In this paper major driving forces for...

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Ressource Boden: ökologisches Schutzgut oder Basis wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung?

Krehl, Angelika; Jehling, Mathias; Krüger, Tobias - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 91 (2022) 1, pp. 55-67

Das sozioökonomische Wachstum und die raumstrukturellen Veränderungen der letzten ca. 50 Jahre haben Spuren hinterlassen. Dabei zeigt sich ein Spannungsfeld, denn die Bereitstellung von Flächen für urbane Nutzungen geht mit Nutzungskonflikten hinsichtlich der Ressource Boden einher. Im...

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Urban agriculture digital planning for the European Union's Green Deal

Bartolome, Ana M; Carpio, Deiyalí A; Urbano, Beatriz - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 24 (2022) 59, pp. 159-172

Urban agriculture is a nature-based solution recommended for the regeneration and adaptation of urban areas to climate change, in consonance with the European Green Deal. Nevertheless, for the development of urban agriculture, the availability, access and usability of cultivable land in urban...

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The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023

Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average elasticities of city population and built area to aggregate city building heights of 0.12 and -0.17, respectively, indicating that the largest global cities in developing...

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Planning for the Future: A Land-Use and Transport Interaction Model for Switzerland

Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Zeiler, Alexandra; … - 2014

answer these questions, different scenarios have been simulated including all 3000 municipalities in Switzerland using the … for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) at ETH Zurich, regioConcept (Switzerland) and ESMO (Slovakia). The models in FaLC … for Switzerland focusses basically on three scenarios: - Effects of road network modification - Effects of company taxes …

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