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1. Assessing Land for Climate Resilience

   A guide to The Nature Conservancy’s resilient and connected network
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2023
   Mark Anderson

   Across 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...

2. Building a Landscape Conservation Approach

   The potential for Regional Conservation and Climate Partnerships in Canada
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2023
   Sarah Winterton

   This 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...

3. Overview of the National Park System Reform Process in China

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2023
   Yufei Wang, Yixin Hu, and Jingyi Liu

   China 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...

4. How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Ernest Cook, Katherine Lyons, Rashail Deminck, Lucia Portman, and Molly McDevitt 

   Land 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...

5. Building Collaboration among Community Land Trusts Providing Affordable Housing and Conservation Land Trusts Protecting Land for Ecological Value

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2023
   Katie Michels and David A. Hindin

   The 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...

6. 草根的力量

   ⼟地保护组织应对⽓候变化的解决⽅案
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2022
   James N. Levitt and Chandni Navalkha

   As communities worldwide make protecting the climate a priority, land trusts and conservancies of all sizes and capac­ities are seeking greater clarity in how to address climate change through...

7. Integrated Policy and Planning for Connectivity Conservation

   Lessons from Kenya, Romania, and Vermont, U.S.A.
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Zachary Wurtzebach 

   Ecological 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...

8. Michael Whitfield of the Heart of the Rockies Initiative Wins the Kingsbury Browne Fellowship and Conservation Leadership Award

   Comunicados de prensa
   Octubre 11, 2018

9. From the Ground Up

   How Land Trusts and Conservancies Are Providing Solutions to Climate Change
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Febrero 2022
   James N. Levitt and Chandni Navalkha

   As communities worldwide make protecting the climate a priority, land trusts and conservancies of all sizes and capac­ities are seeking greater clarity in how to address climate change through...

10. The Effects of Payments for Environmental Services on Peri-Urban Land Change in Mexico City's Conservation Zone

    Documentos de trabajo
    Junio 2022
    Julia C. Bausch, Elizabeth Tellman, Alison Acosta-Oakes, Amy Lerner, Enrique Castelán-Crespo, and Bertha Hernández-Aguilar

    In 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:...