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Equity in Green Infrastructure
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2024Nathaniel R. Mattison and Kyle McKenneyMany municipalities introduced their first stand-alone green infrastructure (“GI”) plans in the late 2000s and early 2010s, specifically as a means of achieving compliance with water...
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Agriculture in the Colorado River Basin States
Challenges and Implications for the FutureDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2023Nike Opejin, Faith Sternlieb, and Catherine Van DykeThe Babbitt Center report, Agriculture in the Colorado River Basin States: Challenges and Implications for the Future, examines the challenges confronting agricultural producers in the Colorado River...
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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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Developing a Quantitative Spatial Economic Model to Evaluate Urban Water Conservation Policies in Denver
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2023Juan Carlos G. LopezThis paper develops a quantitative spatial model for the city of Denver to consider policy proposals to reduce urban water demand using data on land use and water demand by households and business...
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Research-Informed Documents of Practice
Helping Urban Planners and Water Managers Direct the Change Needed for Creating Climate-Adapted Urban LandscapesDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2023Paul W. Lander and Mary Ann DickinsonThe past decade has seen a tremendous increase in the interest of the relationship between land use and water planning (American Planning Association Water & Planning Network, 2017). This has led...
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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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Understanding the Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Urban Greenspaces
A green infrastructure approach to healthy behavior and outcomeDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2023Yizhao Yang, Hong Wu, Dong Li, and Jie HuThis paper argues that urban greenspaces’ ultimate health efficacy lies in them working together as a system and as green infrastructure to provide a variety of ecosystem services. This...
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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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China’s Shifting Demographic Geography
Insights from the 2020 CensusDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2023Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei ZhangThis monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...
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