Climate change and land policies
By: edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong
Publisher: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9781558442177
Subjects: Urban Land use; Congresses; Climatic changes; Government policy
Description: xvi, 477 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Conference proceedings.
Table of contents: title: Land policies in the face of climate change / Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong; title: Preparing for rising water along U.S. coastlines / Bruce Babbitt; title: Sea-level rise and coastal zone management / Robert J. Nicholls; title: The impact of climate change on land / Robert Mendelsohn; title: Alternative energy sources and land use / Clinton J. Andrews, Lisa Dewey-Mattia, Judd M. Schechtman, and Mathias Mayr; title: Integrating adaptation and mitigation in local climate change planning / Elisabeth M. Hamin; title: Land use and vehicle miles of travel in the climate change debate : getting smarter than your average bear / Marlon G. Boarnet, Douglas Houston, Gavin Ferguson, and Steven Spears; title: The decline in transit-sustaining densities in U.S. cities, 1910/2000 / Shlomo Angel, Alejandro Blei, Jason Parent, and Daniel A. Civco; title: Prediction of transportation outcomes for LEED-ND pilot projects / Reid Ewing, Colin Quinn-Hurst, Lauren Brown, Meghan Bogaerts, Michael Greenwald, and Ming Zhang; title: Congestion pricing : an overview of experience and impacts / Kiran Bhatt; title: Changing land uses in forestry and agriculture through payments for environmental services / Sven Wunder and Jan Borner; title: Capturing economic rents to pay for conservation of sensitive sites / John A. Dixon; title: Do U.S. policy makers have better alternatives to cap and trade? / Ian W. H. Parry and Roberton C. Williams III; title: The environment and global governance : can the global community rise to the challenge? / Uma Lele, Aaron Zazueta, and Benjamin Singer; title: American federalism and climate change : policy options and public opinion / Barry G. Rabe and Christopher P. Borick; title: Climate change and the management of national and state-owned land in the united states / Christopher McGrory Klyza.