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1. Equity in Green Infrastructure

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2024
   Nathaniel R. Mattison and Kyle McKenney

   Many 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...

2. Agriculture in the Colorado River Basin States

   Challenges and Implications for the Future
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2023
   Nike Opejin, Faith Sternlieb, and Catherine Van Dyke

   The 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...

3. Conservation Easements: Legal Principles, Valuation, and Applications

   Educación a distancia
   Junio 14, 2023
   Faculty: Joan Youngman, Armando Carbonell, Paul O’Leary, James J. Czupryna, and Stephen J. Small

   Conservation easements play an important role in protecting natural landscapes and sensitive habitats, and in promoting sustainable land use practices. In this course, students will explore the...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. Developing a Quantitative Spatial Economic Model to Evaluate Urban Water Conservation Policies in Denver

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Juan Carlos G. Lopez

   This 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...

7. Research-Informed Documents of Practice

   Helping Urban Planners and Water Managers Direct the Change Needed for Creating Climate-Adapted Urban Landscapes
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2023
   Paul W. Lander and Mary Ann Dickinson

   The 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...

8. 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...

9. Understanding the Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Urban Greenspaces

   A green infrastructure approach to healthy behavior and outcome
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2023
   Yizhao Yang, Hong Wu, Dong Li, and Jie Hu

   This 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...

10. 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...