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A conference co-hosted by the Lincoln Institute and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan in October 2006 explored land-related topics that would be important between the present time and the year 2015, the target date to which United Nations member states have agreed for a set of Millennium Development Goals. This book compiles the conference proceedings and alerts policy and decision makers to the changing circumstances of how society views, values, and uses land. Technology is changing the way land is now managed and used; and the evidence of improvements in land records, agricultural technology, estimation of land values, and dissemination of information about land use is encouraging. Worth considering are the suggestions to examine land decisions within a framework of sustainable development, particularly regarding the sustainability of food supplies.
Gary C. Cornia is professor of public management in the Romney Institute of Public Management at the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Jim Riddell is former chief of FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) Land Tenure Service. He serves as a course coordinator at the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan and is based in Edina, Minnesota.
Introduction
1. Changing Views, Values, and Uses of Land, Gary C. Cornia and Chi-Mei Lin
Public Finance and Land Administration
2. The Property Tax in Developing Countries: Current Practice and Prospects, Roy Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
3. Property Taxation in a Global Economy: Is a Capital Gains Tax on Real Property a Good Idea?, Sally Wallace
Local Economic Development
4. The Sprawl of Economics: A Response to Jan Brueckner, Gerrit-Jan Knaap
5. Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Environment: A Nature Conservation Approach for the Green Island of Taiwan, John Chien-Yuan Lin
6. The Role of Local Government in Contemporary Economic Development, Michael I. Luger
Institutional Reform
7. Property Valuation in the Twenty-first Century, Peter F. Colwell and Joseph W. Trefzger
8. Global Challenges for Land Administration and Sustainable Development, Ian Williamson
9. The Multilevel Development Bank as Midwife: Delivering Property Rights Reform, John W. Bruce
Changing Visions of Land
10. Land and Economic Development: New Institutional Arrangements, Daniel W. Bromley
11. Social Dimensions of Rural Resource Sustainability, Anthony Bebbington
12. Future Challenges of Sustainable Land Use in Taiwan, Kuo-Ching Lin
13. Environmental Planning for a Sustainable Food Supply, Robert E. Evenson
14. Toward a 2015 Vision of Land, Jim Riddell