A review of fiscal measures to benefit heritage conservation

This research paper reports an international review of the use of fiscal incentives (such as property tax incentives, income tax deductions and VAT) for heritage conservation. The research examines countries across Europe and North America. The paper has been presented at RICS headquarters

Real estate tax credits and other incentives for investing in historic property in the United States

This article reviews different incentives provided in the USA and makes comparisons to incentives offered in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Together with outputs 1& 2, this article was cited in House of Commons: ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee, Eleventh Report of Session 2003-4 (Volume I) into “The Role of Historic buildings in Urban Regeneration” (HC 47-I, EV29 published on 29 July 2004)

Overview of Hybrid Financial Instruments and Investment Leverage Enablers for Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse

Cultural heritage adaptive reuse investment strategies involve long-term, sometimes perpetual, investment horizons, which necessitate the integration of sustainable funding mechanisms. In order to achieve participatory circular human prosperity, the sustainable finance movement must re-evaluate investment leverage approaches including value creation models, the design of hybrid financial instruments, analytical decision-making frameworks,collaborative social enterprise structures, impact performance metrics and evolving mindsets. In the context of this overview of financial and non-financial instruments, cultural heritage adaptive reuse activities include: • Adaptive reuse of cultural built heritage structures • Energy retrofit of cultural built heritage structures • Protection and management of natural eco-systems; • Socio-cultural community enterprise activities. Cultural heritage adaptive reuse activities embody circular economy dimensions, that engender social, cultural, environmental and economic regeneration, within the global value chain. Consideration of the financial landscape, with regard to capital investment leverage is as much about understanding the motivations of social enterprise stakeholders (including local communities) to engage with the capital markets, as about innovations in financial instruments to safeguard cultural heritage values

Black and Green: The future of Indigenous-environmental relations in Australia

Indigenous–environmental relations in Australia have a difficult history. Two examples from fieldwork in northern Australia – the Wild Rivers campaign in Queensland and contestations over Walmadan (James Price Point) in Western Australia – facilitate exploration of the contrast between the sustained, multiple and detailed efforts that environmental groups have put into black–green relations, and the public perception that environmentalists do not care about Indigenous people. The multiple competing political narratives of different Indigenous activists and environmental organisations around notions of environment and economy are identified. This detailed analysis suggests that environmentalists need to advocate for a peopled-landscape and all activists must engage in a more nuanced discussion and understanding of diverse forms of economy

Investment Leverage for Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage

This article tracks the design of a panoptic toolkit of complementary financial (grant and endowment, tax, debt and equity) and non-financial (regulation, real estate, risk mitigation and performance, capacity building, impact metric and digital network) instruments, designed to leverage capital investment and engender collaborative partnerships, to encourage investment capital to flow to cultural heritage adaptive reuse activities