Sentences with phrase «land use policy»

«Our research goes anywhere from land use policy, land taxation, understanding housing markets and urban growth, to finance, mortgages, securitization in the real estate sector, and global investments in real estate and global finance.»

The third alternative is to enact fundamental changes to land use policy that prompt far more substantial densification than any U.S. city has undergone to date.

As a result, it easier to shift the blame for restricted housing supply in these cities a step further towards land use policy.

Land use policy impeding densification — as opposed to expansion — is likely to be stricter in the same cities whose outward growth is curbed, and such impediments to densification contributed to housing price growth as well.

The bill shifts power over an important aspect of land use policy from local decision makers to the state.

There is no need to over-constrain local land use policy by overriding it even when its effects don't transcend municipal boundaries.

SB 827 implements precisely this approach: It shifts power over an important but specific aspect of land use policy — housing density near transit — from the local level to the regional one.

Through shifting control of land use policy from local to regional governments, SB 827 wants to reduce the Golden State's cost of housing.

And despite five years of coverage that local press gave to landowner associations in their fight against provincial land - use policies, farmers are incensed to learn that there is such a thing as a Provincial Land Use Policy, and that solar panels qualify as a legal crop on agricultural land.

In Ontario's land use policy, articulated in the Places to Grow document, the provincial government has taken an important step to mandating a more sustainable future.

These procedural rights are particularly significant in determining whether and at what level Indigenous people are engaged in negotiations concerning state - wide land use policy including water management, infrastructure, national parks, agricultural activities etc..

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The procedural rights provided in the NTA [5]- to be notified and to comment where state governments propose future acts as part of implementing state land use policy - are also important to Indigenous participation on land the subject of a native title claim, even though they are less extensive than the right to negotiate.

New York City About Blog ULI New York's mission is to serve as the principal forum for real estate professionals in our area, reflecting the Urban Land Institute's best practices in leadership development, community service and enhancement of land use policy and practice.

Describing their collective actions — a buffet of technologies, land use policy reforms, and deforestation regulations, the ministers positioned their countries as leaders among both developed and developing nations.

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The main problems as I understand it relates to water overdraft and lax land use policy that is allowing land to subside and less flow from the rivers that allows salt to encroach farther inland and building in areas that are prone to storm surge.

[C3] Practical solutions like land use policy and landfill seem to be a better choice than hoping to control sea level rise via reducing greenhouse emissions.»

Clearly, forests, agriculture, and land governance must be at the center of Myanmar's forthcoming National Land Use Policy to properly address resource management and land conflicts,» said Michael Jenkins, President and CEO of Forest Trends, a Washington - based non-profit organization that released the report.

New York City About Blog ULI New York's mission is to serve as the principal forum for real estate professionals in our area, reflecting the Urban Land Institute's best practices in leadership development, community service and enhancement of land use policy and practice.

The journal also focuses on emerging professional issues, the role of education, evolving theories of post-modern humans and their environment, land use policy, the science of collaboration and more.

This is shown in a study from Stockholm University published in the journal Land Use Policy.

Her interviews with those involved in the slaughter, now published, reveal that killing the elephants was as much about rebelling against this state of affairs as protecting crops and livelihoods (Land Use Policy, doi.org/xz8).

Many of the donors who have given the max to de Blasio come from the real estate industry, which has an interest in city housing and land use policies.

The impact of land use transition is especially significant in the Southeast where 89 percent of the forested land is privately owned, underscoring the importance of land use policies that provide incentives for keeping lands in a forested condition.

Furthermore, this information can be a practical tool for planning sustainable landscapes, and should be incorporated into different land use policies, such as the Brazilian Forest Code, programs for ecosystems payments or in socio - environmental certification incentives.»

Activists hope Jokowi will go beyond a recent announcement to control peat fires and reform land use policies, although there is some skepticism that other topics will overtake the agenda.

In this context, we aim to explore the impact of policy instruments — in particular risk - coping mechanisms, environment - related policies and land use policies — on the social - ecological resilience of smallholders.

I'll try to convey to the folks back home that any money that will come from the Cancun agreements is not only for specific climate change mitigation or adaptation projects but also providing us a chance to rethink and revise our national agricutural, energy, and land use policies.

Proponents of the fund approach argue that linking REDD credits to the carbon market will delay the transition of developed countries to low - carbon technologies and will restrict developing countries in their ability to reform land use policies.

Emissions from deforestation can be reduced by land use policies.

Policy - based REDD activities would generate credits by reforming land use policies in a manner that would lead to reduced deforestation.

The focus on emissions reductions as some sort of solution to sea level rise (apart from any determination of cause) is distracting from developing better land use policies and coastal engineering practices.

Land use policies to enhance the forest carbon sink and tighter rules to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas could also help.

Forest and land use policies across African countries have historically passed through two types of governance: Under traditional systems controlled by families, traditional leaders and communities, decisions regarding land allocation, redistribution and protection were the responsibility of local leaders.

It also constitutes a call for municipal authorities to work together to strengthen capacities and influence relevant regulations (land use policies, food waste, waste recycling and short food chains) at national, European and international levels.

Perhaps a better approach would be to look for synergies between near and long term measures, e.g. land use policies that put people out of harm's way and lower transport energy intensity, or recycling carbon tax revenue into disease prevention.

Fraijo's efforts include advocating for planning and land use policies throughout California for the benefit of minority and low - income communities through his founding of the Leadership for Urban Renewal Network, Inc., a nonprofit based in Los Angeles that is nationally recognized for its economic development work, and his service with the Friends of the Hollywood Freeway Central Park.

This year, with a heavy lift from Robinson, MHI has tracked and documented local zoning and land use policies that restrict or eliminate manufactured housing.

This works at cross purposes to land use policies aimed at intensification.

Not exact matches

Dyer adds that readier solutions will come from policies such as hard limits to emissions or land use rather than «getting industry to squeeze down its footprint.»

The order does not call on regional authorities to shut down mining operations directly, but instead to put the squeeze on them by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.

December 2008 saw the release of the Alberta Land - Use Framework (LUF), the landmark policy that laid out how regional objectives and plans were to be established for all of Alberta.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

A 2016 survey of land use regulations by the Fraser Institute, a public policy think - tank bears out developers» assessment.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

My own view is that once we agree on a vision of what we want that can replace that of ever increasing production, it will be possible to establish overall policies of land use and taxation that will reduce the need for detailed regulation of the market.

Of central concern throughout are problems of resource depletion, of the disappearing ozone layer, and of the greenhouse effect; but these broaden to include agriculture, population, and tax and land - use policies.

Much of the policy has to do with release of land and its use.

AFSA has long campaigned for the creation of an inter-departmental Ministerial Food Forum to ensure strategic and coherent policy development and integration of planning in and across departments managing local food and food systems, population health, transport, land use, education, environmental sustainability, natural resources, infrastructure and economic development.