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Rappaport Institute Policy Notes Database
Environment
For more information on each entry, please click the title of each dataset.
| A Study of the Contexts Within Which Urban Vacant Land is Accessed for Community Open Space |
| Citizen Participation and Local Governmental Choice in Local Environmental Controversies |
| Effectiveness of Stormwater Best Management Practices Along the Southeast Expressway, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Enhancing Regional Greenfrastructure |
| Historical Description of the Vegetation of the Boston Harbor Islands: 1600-2000 |
| Immigrants, Sustainability and Emerging Roles for Universities |
| Landowner Driven Sustainable Forest Management and Value-Added Processing |
| Low-Hanging Fruit: Social Values and Industry Discretion in Toxics Use Reduction Policy |
| Modeling Infrastructure Vulnerabilities and Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Systems: Methodology and Application to Metropolitan Boston |
| New Estimates of the Demand for Urban Green Space: Implications for Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Boston's Big Dig Project |
| Open Space, Housing Construction and Home Prices: What's the Payoff from Smart Growth? |
| Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor - A Unique Environmental Success Story |
| Regulation and Capitalization of Environmental Amenities: Evidence from the Toxic Release Inventory in Massachusetts |
| Sacred Landscapes and Profane Structures: How Offshore Wind Power Challenges the Environmental Impact Review Process |
| Strategic Response to Regulatory Thresholds: Evidence from the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act |
| The Challenge of Energy Policy in New England |
| The Origins of Community-Based Environmental Protection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act |
| The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behaviorial Blend |
| Too Many Parents? Part A: Governance of Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway and Part B: Making a Conservancy Work |
| Troubled Water? Acquiescence, Conflict, and the Politics of Place in Watershed Management |
| Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
| Water, Water Everywhere: Dare I Drink A Drop? |
| Weatherizing the Homes of Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Clients: A Programmatic Assessment |
| Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts |
 More information about these issues is available at IssueSource, an online database produced by MassInc and the State House News Service that "gives citizens basic, background information on Massachusetts politics and policy news stories."
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