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Reinventing Conservation Easements
A Critical Examination and Ideas for ReformDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2005Jeff PidotThis working paper has been published as a Lincoln Institute Policy Focus Report. No recent happening in land conservation rivals the deployment from coast-to-coast of conservation easements. Beyond...
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From Walden to Wall Street
Frontiers of Conservation FinanceLibrosOctubre 2005Edited by James N. LevittIn the absence of innovation in the field of conservation finance, a daunting funding gap faces conservationists aiming to protect America’s system of landscapes that provide sustainable...
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Reinventing Conservation Easements
Revista Land LinesAbril 2005Jeff PidotA conservation easement is private land, held by a private nonprofit corporation (typically a land trust) or a government agency. Though conservation easements are perceived as a win-win land...
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Faculty Profile
Lawrence SusskindRevista Land LinesAbril 2005Lawrence Susskind is the Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and president of the Consensus Building Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He...
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Community Land Trusts
Leasing Land for Affordable HousingRevista Land LinesAbril 2005Rosalind Greenstein and Yesim Sungu-EryilmazHigh land costs are an obstacle to developing and securing affordable housing for lower-income families. One way to address this issue is to purchase a house without the land, and a community land...