Review: Climate Change and Land Policies

Abstract

Fifteen papers and thirteen comments, originally presented at a land policy conference held by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in 2008, explore the relationships between property rights and land policies from a multidisciplinary perspective. Papers discuss design principles of robust property rights institutions--what we have learned; U.S. private property rights in international perspective; China's land system--past, present, and future; property rights and real estate privatization in Russia--a work in progress; developing land markets within the constraint of state ownership in Vietnam; the use of eminent domain in Sao Paulo, Bogota, and Mexico City; the myth and reality of eminent domain for economic development; property rights protection and spatial planning in European countries; whether decreases in property value caused by regulations should be compensated; land registration, economic development, and poverty reduction; looking beyond land titling and credit accessibility for the urban poor; property rights created under a federalist approach to tradable emissions policy; private conservation easements--balancing private initiative and the public interest; the role of private-sector developers in challenges to local land use regulations; and the mediocrity of government subsidies to mixed-income housing projects. Ingram is President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Hong is Fellow of Interdepartmental Programs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Index.