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LAND USE AND MANAGEMENT CENTRAL TO SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
New Lincoln Institute book, Toward a Vision of Land in 2015: International Perspectives, is roadmap for United Nations Millennium Development Goals
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Land use, land management, and public finance related to land are all central for future worldwide prosperity and sustainability, according to a new compilation of essays published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Toward a Vision of Land in 2015: International Perspectives (Cambridge: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008 / 352 pages / Paper / ISBN: 978-1-55844-174-3), edited by Gary C. Cornia and Jim Riddell, is based on a 2006 conference in Taiwan, cosponsored by the Lincoln Institute and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training. The conference gathered leading thinkers on land issues in anticipation of 2015, the target date for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which include: environmental sustainability through preserving environmental resources, improving the lives of slum dwellers, and increasing access to safe drinking water.
The volume investigates the changing circumstances of how society views, values, and uses land, and is a guide for policy makers on how to utilize land to help govern a community, whether as a revenue source for funding government and infrastructure or as a tool in economic development. Other chapters offer insights and advice about technical and policy innovations aimed at better land use decisions.
Ultimately optimistic on the role of land in developing countries, Toward a Vision of Land in 2015 examines how technology is changing agriculture, improving land records and the estimation of land values, altering the way land is managed and used, and facilitating the dissemination of information about land use. The book considers land decisions in the framework of sustainable development with special attention to the sustainability of food supplies – recently a flashpoint for protests and unrest from South America to Africa and beyond.
About the Editors
Gary C. Cornia is professor of public management and director of the Romney Institute of Public Management at the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and is a board member at both the Lincoln Institute and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training.
Jim Riddell serves as a course coordinator at the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training in Taiwan, and is based in Edina, Minnesota. He is former chief of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Land Tenure Service.
For review copies please contact Anthony Flint at the Lincoln Institute. The Lincoln Institute Web site is at www.lincolninst.edu.
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