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Measuring Behavioral Responses to the Property Tax
Deskins, John; Fox, William - International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young … - 2008
these effects may be desired, at least in certain circumstances, such as if the property tax limits sprawl or if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029304
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Land markets and land market regulation : progress towards understanding
Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available. In the light of this review we then identify...
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The Economics of Urban-Rural Space
Irwin, Elena G.; Bell, Kathleen P.; Bockstael, Nancy E.; … - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 435-459
The emergence of urban-rural space, as evidenced by the expansion of low-density exurban areas and growth of amenity-based rural areas, is characterized by the merging of a rural landscape form with urban economic function. Changing economic conditions, including waning transportation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822994
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Sprawl and Accessibility
Bruegmann, Robert - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 1 (2008) 1, pp. 5-11
This essay argues that many of the assumptions that have been made about sprawl are misleading or just wrong. Nowhere … impaired accessibility for a large part of the population. At very least, the debates over sprawl have pitted private vs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676572
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The American Way of Land Use
Carruthers, John I.; Hepp, Selma; Knaap, Gerrit-Jan; … - In: International Regional Science Review 35 (2012) 3, pp. 267-302
This article examines the ability of proportional hazard models to evaluate changes in land use through time. There are three specific objectives: (a) to review previous research on the complexity of urbanization and explain how the spatial hazard framework accommodates that complexity; (b); to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561613
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Geography, policy or market? New evidence on the measurement and causes of sprawl (and infill) in US metropolitan regions
Paulsen, Kurt - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 12, pp. 2629-2645
This paper proposes four metrics to measure sprawl in metropolitan regions as marginal changes in land use over time … metropolitan areas in the continental USA for 1980 and 2000. Regression analysis is used to explain variations in sprawl metrics …, suggesting that policy can mitigate sprawl development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961336
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Long-term effects of autonomous vehicles on the built environment : a systematic scoping review towards conceptual frameworks
Pimenta, Allan Ribeiro; Kamruzzaman, Mohammad; Currie, … - In: Transport reviews : a transnational transdisciplinary … 43 (2023) 6, pp. 1083-1117
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Integrated and spatially explicit modelling of the economic value of complex environmental change and its indirect effects
Bateman, Ian; Binner, Amy; Coombes, Emma; Day, Brett; … - 2012
Arguably the greatest challenge to contemporary research is to capture the inter-relatedness and complexity of the real world environment within models so at to better inform decision makers of the accurate and complete consequences of differing options. The paper presents an integrated model of...
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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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Policies with varying costs and benefits : a land conservation classroom game
Dissanayake, Sahan T. M.; Jacobson, Sarah - 2015
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