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Assessing Land for Climate Resilience
A guide to The Nature Conservancy’s resilient and connected networkDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2023Mark AndersonAcross the planet, climate change is exacerbating already-critical biodiversity loss that is degrading landscape connectivity, habitats, and livability across species. Motivated by the urgency of...
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Building a Landscape Conservation Approach
The potential for Regional Conservation and Climate Partnerships in CanadaDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2023Sarah WintertonThis working paper reviews the growth of Regional Conservation Partnerships (RCPs) in the United States and the outcomes being achieved by those operating in Canada to determine whether and how these...
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Overview of the National Park System Reform Process in China
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2023Yufei Wang, Yixin Hu, and Jingyi LiuChina is at a turning point from a high economic growth rate to a low one, and the country needs to carry out policy reforms for better governance. In recent years, the National Park system reform...
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How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2023Ernest Cook, Katherine Lyons, Rashail Deminck, Lucia Portman, and Molly McDevittLand conservation – defined as land protection, restoration and stewardship – can be used to address climate change both by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and by helping human and...
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Building Collaboration among Community Land Trusts Providing Affordable Housing and Conservation Land Trusts Protecting Land for Ecological Value
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2023Katie Michels and David A. HindinThe community land trust and conservation land trust movements are each advancing longterm, beneficial uses of land for public needs. Community land trusts primarily focus on obtaining land for...
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Integrated Policy and Planning for Connectivity Conservation
Lessons from Kenya, Romania, and Vermont, U.S.A.Documentos de trabajoJunio 2022Zachary WurtzebachEcological connectivity—the unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes that sustain life on earth—is fundamental for biodiversity conservation in the 21st century. In...
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The Effects of Payments for Environmental Services on Peri-Urban Land Change in Mexico City's Conservation Zone
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2022Julia C. Bausch, Elizabeth Tellman, Alison Acosta-Oakes, Amy Lerner, Enrique Castelán-Crespo, and Bertha Hernández-AguilarIn many cities of the developing world, informal settlements are a key place for people with low incomes to access housing. Informal urbanization drives land-use change at the urban periphery:...
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Standing Tall
Forestry Practices on Lands Conserved by Selected New England Land TrustsDocumentos de trabajoAbril 2021Jane DifleyLand trusts in New England have protected and take part in the stewardship of millions of acres of forestland that are managed for various conservation purposes. Many engage directly in forest...
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The Evolution of a Land Trust
Placing Social Transformation at the Center of the Conservation EffortDocumentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2021Fernando Lloveras San MiguelThis narrative examines the evolution of a land trust, Para la Naturaleza (PLN) in Puerto Rico, as it navigated a vast array of challenges. These challenges led Para la Naturaleza to transform itself...
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Economic Effects of Land Conservation Spatial Characteristics for Climate Change Adaptation
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2021Seung Kyum Kim and Longfeng WuLand conservation has been recognized as a multifunctional adaptive strategy to tackle climate change as it includes the ability to mitigate risk and enhance biodiversity. However, limited empirical...
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