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1. Conserving Biodiversity on South Africa’s Privately-Owned Grasslands

   Farmer Experiences with Protected Areas
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Jeffrey O. Sundberg

   South Africa’s Biodiversity Stewardship Initiative and Protected Areas Act are programs designed to help protect threatened species and provide other conservation benefits. Private grasslands...

2. Current Issues and Perspectives in Urban Water Demand Management

   A Report on the 5th Urban Water Demand Roundtable April 8–9, 2019, Tempe, Arizona
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2020
   Ray Quay, Zachary Sugg, and Faith Sternlieb

   The Urban Water Demand Roundtable (UWDR) is a convening of practitioners, consultants, and academics engaged in water demand research. The UWDR was initially organized in 2012 by a group of water...

3. Toward Holistic Landscape Conservation in the 21st Century

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2019
   Michael B. Whitfield

   In America we enjoy an amazing conservation legacy. However, all of Planet Earth is in the midst of an environmental and social crisis. Here in the United States, observers often see conflict between...

4. Harnessing Technology to Accelerate Land Protection

   GIS at The Trust for Public Land
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2019
   Will Rogers

   By developing and using sophisticated mapping and spatial analysis tools, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been able to dramatically increase its effectiveness in delivering its land-for-people...

5. Harnessing Technology for Land Conservation

   Reflections on the Evolving Role of Geographic Information Services and Technology in Advancing the Land for People Mission of The Trust for Public Land
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Will Rogers

   By developing and using sophisticated mapping and spatial analysis tools, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been able to dramatically increase its effectiveness in delivering its land-for-people...

6. Green Infrastructure in Patagonia

   Sharing the Recent Chilean Land Conservation Experience with the European Conservation Community
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Tilmann Disselhoff and Tom Kirschey

   This paper attempts to capture some of the early lessons from the creation of a new National Park Network in Chilean Patagonia. We argue that the National Park Network of Patagonia constitutes green...

7. Conservation Easements Outside of the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2011
   Gerald Korngold

   For the past thirty years, nonprofits in the United States have been authorized to acquire and hold conservation easements, which are perpetual restrictions that prevent alteration of the subject...

8. Voting for Public Funding of Open Space

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2006
   Jeffrey O. Sundberg

   Over one thousand conservation referenda have been on ballots across the country between 2000 and 2005. More than three-quarters of them have been approved by voters. This public form of land...

9. Tax and Property Value Effects of Conservation Easements

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2006
   Jeffrey O. Sundberg and Richard F. Dye

   A variety of tax incentives encourage property owners to place conservation easements on their property. This paper calculates sample tax effects for a range of tax incentives and shows that many...

10. Reinventing Conservation Easements

    A Critical Examination and Ideas for Reform
    Documentos de trabajo
    Marzo 2005
    Jeff Pidot

    This 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...