Recent literature has argued that a policy of invariant tax abatement awards is more costly than necessary, and has suggested several ways of improving tax abatement policy by allowing officials discretion in granting abatements. Analysis suggests
tax abatements should be abandoned as a development policy. More generally, rent-seeking should be recognised as an important concept in the analysis and evaluation of development programmes.
This distribution is examined among households in the owner-occupied and public-rented sectors in the Birmingham area (UK). The results presented indicate that tax-expenditures tend to be more regressively distributed than subsidies to tenants
arising from non-market pricing. The benefits from the latter are more dependent on a household's location and property type than on income. Efficiency and equity objectives are not met by the current housing finance system.
The organisation of the migratory relationships gets at present a more natural character, from the point of view of the two capitals, of Czech Lands and Slovakia and the gradual increase of the migratory attraction from east to west. Prague has
in the hierarchical organisation of regional processes a special position. The regional differentiation in unemployment acknowledges the more positive prospects of the working opportunities in the main centres. - (MS)
The A. considers what meanings have been given to the term affordability in practice and suggests a range of analytically more useful definitions. It is more logical to use some form of residual income definition than one based on a prescribed ratio
rates should be extrapolated to catchment-wide rates. At the local scale of the Lachlan River highlands, active tectonic compression may be more important than flexure, which is more important at a regional scale.
The 1991 Cyclone claimed more than 140 000 lives in Bangladesh. Comparison of human casualty figures between the cyclones of 1970 and 1991 points to the effectiveness of cyclone shelters constructed after the 1970 disaster. Many inaccuracies
of the regional data on social and natural circumstances affecting human losses are discussed. Non-structural countermeasures are important to make structural ones more effective.
Recently, the topic of border regions receives more and more attention from both academics and politicians. This article serves as an overview of some aspects of this topic, by focusing on reasons for current interest in border regions
This paper reviews some of the most common problems in cave and karst parks. Evidence from research on karst parks and tourist caves shows a decline over time in the diversity biota and a general degradation of the park experience for more tourists
. A determination of the limits of acceptable change may be a more useful guideline for evaluating cave development and visitor impacts.
The collection of essays in this volume sets out explicitely to achieve an international perspective, as a step towards gaining a more global and generalized understanding of human impact on karst. Much remains to be accomplished on this topic
. This volume focuses on impacts. In future more attention must be given to solutions.
This review aims to examine the latest investigations in relation to the recent linking of the Swedish Varve Chronology to the present. It is concluded that the Chronology would benefit from a more detailed study of the processes of formation
Perspective on the geographer C. Sauer (1889-1975) whose life and epistemology were suffused with the time dimension. In Sauer's view more important to the practice of geography than space. - (DWG)
The A. studies innovations in wilderness policy in the Australian states and, more specifically, concentrates on recent developments in this area in Victoria.
Twenty-five counties in south Texas between Brownsville and Del Rio have populations that are more than half Mexican-American. On that basis, the A. delimits a Texas-Mexican homeland. - (DWG)
There is given an actual report on the natural and economic situation on this island. The regional development shows a tendency to more similarity between the provinces regarding living conditions. - (IH)