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Reclaiming the 'Public' Lands: Community Conflict and Rural Gentrification

open access: yesJournal of Rural and Community Development, 2014
The current aspirations of the British coalition government to sell-off publicly-owned land and building assets to facilitate new housing development, raise capital, and engage local communities is an emotive issue.
Darren P Smith
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Environmental regulation, multinational companies and international competitiveness [PDF]

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Concerns have been expressed that in a global market place with mobile capital, national governments will have incentives to set weak environmental policies (“environmental dumpingâ€) to protect the international competitiveness of their domestic firms,
Ulph, Alistair, Valentini, Laura
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NIMBYism and Harm Reduction Programs: Results from Baltimore City. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Urban Health, 2022
Rouhani S   +5 more
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Urban Growth Externalities and Neighborhood Incentives: Another Cause of Urban Sprawl? [PDF]

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This paper suggests a cause of low density in urban development or urban sprawl that has not been given much attention in the literature. There have been a number of arguments put forward for market failures that may account for urban sprawl, including ...
Matthias Cinyabuguma, Virginia McConnell
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Participation and Capacity Building in Community Visioning: NIMBYism and the Politics of the Rural-Urban Interface in Elk Grove, California

open access: yesJournal of Rural and Community Development, 2011
The Rural Visioning Project, a community-based research project in Elk Grove, California, emerged from collaboration between two local community groups and researchers from the University of California, Davis. It is presented as "an exercise in community
Colleen C Hiner, Ryan E Galt
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