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Uncertain Futures: Integrating Land and Water Planning in an Era of Climate Volatility
Revista Land LinesMarzo 2023By Heather Hansman, March 21, 2023Learn how three communities are adapting their land and water planning processes in the face of climate chaos.
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Integrating Land Use and Water Management
Resúmenes de políticas públicasAgosto 2022By Erin RuglandLand without water cannot support urban form of any scale, yet many land use decisions are made without regard to water, and vice versa. This Policy Brief introduces readers to best management...
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Lincoln Institute Launches Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy
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Growing Water Smart
Workshop Helps Western Communities Integrate Water and Land Use PlanningRevista Land LinesFebrero 2020By Katharine Wroth, February 4, 2020During the last two decades, the population of Fort Collins, Colorado, expanded from 100,000 to 170,000. According to the city’s newly adopted comprehensive plan, that total is expected to swell to...
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New Publication
Integrating Water Efficiency into Land Use Planning in the Interior West: A Guidebook for Local PlannersRevista Land LinesEnero 2019By Emma Zehner, January 9, 2019Las Vegas residents receive $3 for every square foot of grass they replace with drought-tolerant landscaping. In Morro Bay, California, developers must retrofit existing housing stock to save twice...
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Next Steps
Hammering Out a Future for Water Users in the U.S. WestRevista Land LinesSeptiembre 2019By Matt Jenkins, September 17, 2019Earlier this year, seven U.S. states and Mexico reached an agreement about how to share the increasingly scarce water of the Colorado River. But the new agreement lasts only a few years, so...
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Water Planning
Land Use Decisions Could Make or Break the River That Sustains One in Nine AmericansRevista Land LinesMayo 2019By Anthony Flint, May 3, 2019The Drought Contingency Plan for the Colorado River will help maintain water supplies for 40 million people, but the hard work to bring about a truly sustainable future is just beginning.
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Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy
Abril 2017Building Capacity to Secure Our Water Future The sustainability of water and land resources is one of the greatest challenges facing the Colorado River Basin. Since most uses of land require an...
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Our new initiative to find water solutions in land
Entradas de blogMayo 2017