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1. Determinants of Change in the Intermountain West

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2014
   Josef Marlow and Stephen Aldrich

   The future operating environment and planning context for the Intermountain West is highly uncertain. Driven by powerful forces including climate, shifting economics, population demography, and...

2. On-Bill Repayment

   Repaying Clean Energy Investments on Utility Bills
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2014
   James Fine, Brad Copithorne, Michael Roos, Ruiwen Lee, Jessica Feingold, Elizabeth Stein, and Sandra Shorenstein

   Clean energy investing is a proven yet mostly untapped opportunity for improving Americas’ economic and environmental prospects. There is massive potential for profitable investment in energy...

3. Policies Affecting Renewable Energy Generation on State Trust Lands in the Intermountain West

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2014
   Alison Berry

   State trust lands could play an important role in the growing market for renewable energy. These lands, covering 35 million acres in the Intermountain West, were granted to the states at the time of...

4. Conservation Easements in the U.S. and Abroad

   Reflections and Views toward the Future
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2014
   Harvey M. Jacobs

   Public policy for privately owned land in the United States was traditionally undertaken in one of three ways: through regulation, via manipulation of the property tax, or through targeted use of...

5. Integrating Scenario Planning Tools with Wildlife Planning Tools

   Informing Land Use Planning in a Rural Desert Landscape via the Morongo Basin Alternative Futures Project
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2014
   Stephanie Weigel, Cameron Ellis, and Brent Brock

   The Morongo Basin Alternative Futures project was undertaken as part of a multi-year regional conservation planning project facilitated by the Sonoran Institute in a rural Mojave Desert setting in...

6. Planning for Conservation Priorities Across Community Values

   An Evaluation of the Conservation Priority Setting Methodology as Developed by Perlman and Western Lands and Communities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2014
   Nicole Schneidman

   In 2005, Dan Perlman, Associate Professor of Biology at Brandeis University, began piloting a values-driven approach to conservation priority setting and planning in partnership with Western Lands...

7. Approaches to Local Regulation of Shale Gas Development

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2014
   Tushar Kansal and Patrick Field

   Residents of the towns and cities where shale gas development has been occurring are dealing with a whole host of challenges and risks felt at the local level. This paper explores some of the...

8. Improving Collaboration Between State Trust Land Managers and Large Landscape Conservation Practitioners

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2014
   Susan Culp

   Large landscape-scale conservation (LLC) frameworks hold significant promise for meeting 21st century challenges while maintaining and/or restoring the health and function of critical ecosystem...

9. Developing a Web-Based Prioritization Tool for the Lower Susquehanna River

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2014
   Jeffrey Allenby and Joel Dunn

   Chesapeake Conservancy has developed a tool that can display data layers and perform a custom analysis based on user input to determine the highest value conservation opportunities along the lower...

10. Getting Right-of-Way Right

    Landowner Compensation for Electric Power Transmission Rights-of-Way
    Documentos de trabajo
    Diciembre 2013
    Alison Berry

    In January 2013, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Sonoran Institute, Headwaters Economics and the Western Governors’ Association convened a workshop focusing on landowner compensation for...