Promoting Fiscal Incentives for Urban Regeneration: Local Government Digital Presence

• Autor(es): Dinis, Ana
• Data: 2024
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/11110/2950
• Origem: Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave
• Assunto(s): Urban rehabilitation; digital strategies; fiscal incentives
• Tipo de Documento: Capitulo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

This research aims to analyse urban regeneration in Portugal in the context of environmental sustainability. Urban regeneration is much more than an information technology problem, as it increasingly requires social, economic, political, management and communication skills. Urban regeneration cannot be reduced to a mere real estate business, as it is seen as a public policy that treats the city as a collective good and aims to deal with the cities of the future. It is therefore important to highlight the role of environmental taxation as an extra f iscal policy that can influence taxpayers’ behaviour (in this case, towards the use of more sustainable materials in urban regeneration). This study seeks to show how Portuguese municipalities have a digital presence and how this presence can be relevant in the process of spreading fiscal incentives (namely to companies), in the context of their local significance. Thus, based on an exploratory analysis of the municipalities of the Portuguese Northern Region, this research aims to present a portrait of the digital presence of municipalities and how it is linked to f iscal incentives for urban regeneration. From the author’s point of view, this is a groundbreaking study because it puts the issue of environmental taxation in the context of urban regeneration on the table

FCT, Projeto UIDB/04043/2020