The distinctive role of land use policy

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Distinctive Role

scholarly journals Motivations for Growth Revolts: Discretion and Pretext as Sources of Development Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Manville ◽  
Taner Osman
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Traditional Role

This article suggests that “ballot box growth revolts”—instances where citizens use direct democracy to curb development—may be caused by local governments’ use of discretionary development approvals. We further suggest that growth revolts themselves provide a useful window into discretionary approvals, and illustrate how discretion can create conflict. Discretion is appealing to fiscally constrained cities because it lets them bargain with developers over building permissions, and thus helps cities finance public amenities. But it also gives cities incentives to regulate more heavily than they otherwise might, and to regulate pretextually: to write rules primarily for the purpose of bargaining them away. In sum, zoning's increasing use as a tool of fiscal policy can undermine its traditional role of providing assurance about future land use policy. We use various examples to illustrate our argument, including five growth revolts in Southern California.

scholarly journals Critical Review : Menjajaki perubahan tata guna lahan dan peran produksi kelapa sawit di Indonesia dan Malaysia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anto Ariyanto
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Land Use Policy

Jurnal yang diambil untuk makalah ini bersumber dari jurnal Land Use Policy 28 (2011) 193–206. Jurnal ini menyediakan informasi tentang kebijakan penggunaan lahan serta implikasinya. Jurnal yang dikritisi berjudul Exploring land use changes and the role of palm oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia ditulis oleh Birka Wicke, Richard Sikkema, Veronika Dornburg, dan André Faaij, dipublikasikan pada tahun 2011.

CEO and CFO Equity Incentives and the Pricing of Audit Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Anthony Billings ◽  
Xinghua Gao ◽  
Yonghong Jia
Keyword(s):  
Positive Association ◽  
Audit Fees ◽  
Internal Controls ◽  
Audit Risk ◽  
Pricing Decisions ◽  
Equity Incentives ◽  
Accounting Scandals ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Distinctive Role

SUMMARY: The alleged perverse role of managerial incentives in accounting scandals, and the distinctive role of auditors in identifying and intervening in attempted earnings manipulation, highlight the importance of explicitly considering executive incentive plans by auditors in the auditing process. By empirically testing auditors' responses to CEO/CFO equity incentives in planning and pricing decisions using data from 2002 through 2009, we document compelling evidence that CFO equity incentives are positively associated with audit fees and CEO equity incentives are not statistically related to audit fees, suggesting that auditors perceive heightened audit risk associated with CFO equity incentives. Our further analyses reveal that the positive association between CFO equity incentives and audit fees is more pronounced in firms with weak internal controls, indicating heightened risk associated with CFO equity incentives in this setting perceived by auditors. JEL Classifications: G30, G34, M42, M52.

Conservation and privatization decisions in land reform of New Zealand’s high country

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Adena R Rissman ◽  
Molly C Daniels ◽  
Peter Tait ◽  
Xiaojing Xing ◽  
Ann L Brower
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Conservation Easement ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Lower Productivity ◽  
Ecological Values

Summary Neoliberal land reforms to increase economic development have important implications for biodiversity conservation. This paper investigates land reform in New Zealand’s South Island that divides leased state-owned stations (ranches) with private grazing leases into state-owned conservation land, private land owned by the former leaseholder and private land under protective covenant (similar to conservation easement). Conserved lands had less threatened vegetation, lower productivity, less proximity to towns and steeper slopes than privatized lands. Covenants on private land were more common in intermediate zones with moderate land-use productivity and slope. Lands identified with ecological or recreational ‘significant inherent values’ were more likely to shift into conserved or covenant status. Yet among lands with identified ecological values, higher-threat areas were more likely to be privatized than lower-threat areas. This paper makes two novel contributions: (1) quantitatively examining the role of scientific recommendations about significant inherent values in land reform outcomes; and (2) examining the use of conservation covenants on privatized land. To achieve biodiversity goals, it is critical to avoid or prevent the removal of land-use restrictions beyond protected areas.

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