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Local Land Use Planning Responses to Hydraulic Fracturing

Journal of the American Planning Association, 2016
Problem, research strategy, and findings: The practice of horizontal high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has become widespread in many areas of the United States, yet the regulatory landscape for local governments is highly variable and legally uncertain.
Anna C Osland
exaly   +2 more sources

Improving the Performance of Local Land-Use Plans

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 1997
In the Dutch system, only the local land-use plan is legally binding. This implies that, so far as regulation of land use is concerned, the effectiveness of the system as a whole is highly dependent on the effectiveness of this type of plan. There has been much debate on this issue and the 1985 revision of the Act on Spatial Planning was meant to ...
L van Damme   +3 more
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Emerging Directions for Research on Local Land-Use Planning [PDF]

open access: possibleEnvironment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 1986
This paper is an exploration of the way the new political economy approaches in the social sciences can be developed to provide a more robust knowledge-base for local land-use planning. Consideration is given to present deficiencies in our understanding and their consequences. There then follows a review of recent developments within political economy
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The Timing of Adoptions of Land-Use Plans and Regulations in Pennsylvania Localities

Social Science Quarterly, 2003
Objective. This article explores the relationship between the timing of land‐use tool adoptions and local growth.Methods.Land cover data, census data, and information about land‐use tools were merged for all Pennsylvania minor civil divisions (MCDs) for the period 1975/1980 to 1990/1992.
Jennifer Steele, A. E. Luloff
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Adding a Localized Adjustment Capability to the LUPLAN Land-Use Planning Package

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 1985
In this paper are reported the incorporation of (a) a selective reallocation capability and (b) a conditional reallocation capability into the LUPLAN land-use planning package. A selective reallocation capability allows the user to nominate a change of plan on part of the planning area and to view the implications of that change in policy-achievement ...
J R Ive, K D Cocks
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Estimating Local Economic Impacts in Land-Use Planning

Journal of Forestry, 1976
Abstract The U.S. Forest Service has traditionally been concerned with the effects of its management on local areas. An export base model has been developed for estimating some of these effects. A new computer program, BENEFIT, incorporating the essentials of the model, enables land-use planners to estimate some of the local economic
Richard C. Field, Frank J. Convery
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Local Sustainable Development: Land-use Planning's Contribution to Modern Local Government

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2000
This paper assesses the contribution of land-use planning to the objectives of local sustainable development in some of the UK's most urbanized areas. Sustainable development provides the context within which local planning policies are now being prepared, and can be seen to be a potentially important aspect of central government's proposals for ...
Garreth E. Bruff, Adrian P. Wood
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