The Lincoln Institute’s third annual land policy conference explored the connections between property rights and land policies in developed and developing country contexts. The chapter authors discuss a range of topics including regulatory takings, the use of eminent domain and expropriation in land assembly, the emergence of private property rights in transition economies, marketable emission permits, natural resource management, and the impacts of tenure choice on land and housing development.

detailed and descriptive. The editors have provided a thorough introduction with a succinct

summary of the key points. For a reader who wants to know the direction of the main arguments

and contents in particular chapters, this is very helpful.   --International Planning Studies