LAND USE CONVERSION: EVALUATION AND STRATEGIC ACTIONS

Ntegrating Land Use and Transportation Planning: a Strategic Approach

T he problems of urban sprawl-low-density residential and commercial development, road traffic congestion and high cost public transit systems are the result of the cumulative, long-term effect of disjointed planning decisions on the urban fabric. What is needed to offset the planning mistakes of the last 30 years is an integrated approach to land use and transportation planning. Existing plann...

Habitat and Open-space at Risk of Land-use Conversion: Targeting Strategies for Land Conservation

Land-use legacies regulate decomposition dynamics following bioenergy crop conversion

Land-use conversion into bioenergy crop production can alter litter decomposition processes tightly coupled to soil carbon and nutrient dynamics. Yet, litter decomposition has been poorly described in bioenergy production systems, especially following land-use conversion. Predicting decomposition dynamics in postconversion bioenergy production systems is challenging because of the combined infl...

Property Tax Impacts on the Timing of Land Use Conversion

This study investigates how property taxes a¤ect development timing. A theoretical framework motivates an empirical model that explores how land use change decisions are made over time. A survival model using plot level data is estimated to show how di¤erent factors in‡uence the timing of development of individual parcels. The results suggest that higher taxes slow development, as expected. Wit...

Strategic Disclosure of Collective Actions

The paper illustrates how decision makers may have an incentive to withhold information regarding the existence of Pareto improving collective actions. The resulting level of inefficiency varies with the way compromises are reached when the parties have to choose among multiple options. Various reasonable compromise rules can be ranked unequivocally, and a rule resulting in a minimal level of i...