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1. What Do We Do with the Land Left Behind?

   XSP for Floodplain Buyout Parcels
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Kelly Leilani Main, Risa Hiser, Victoria Woods, Osamu Kumasaka, Maggie Tsang, and Isaac Stein

   Flood risk is increasing across the country due to extreme precipitation, outdated infrastructure, poor development practices, and climate change. As climate impacts like storm surge and sea level...

2. Demands on the Land: To Secure a Livable Future, We Must Steward Land Wisely

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2022
   By Sivan Kartha, July 27, 2022

   From sequestering carbon to providing homes for displaced people, from producing food to siting renewable energy, land is an essential component of many climate solutions. How can we prioritize the demands we place on this finite resource?

3. Mayor’s Desk: Burlington, Vermont, Aims for Net Zero

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2022
   By Anthony Flint, July 25, 2022

   Leaders in the city of Burlington, Vermont, are promising to eliminate net fossil fuel use by 2030. Mayor Miro Weinberger discusses the city’s ambitious plans, the critical role of utilities, and the ways local leaders can take meaningful climate action.

4. 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...

5. 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:...

6. 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...

7. Life of an Idea: The Story of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

   Videos y multimedia
   Julio 2022

   "Life of an Idea: The Story of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy" explores the groundbreaking solutions that the Lincoln Institute advanced in its first 75 years and looks toward the decades to come.

8. Podcast: Kara Swisher on What Tech Can Do for Climate

   Videos y multimedia
   Febrero 2022
   Season 3, Episode 1 of the Land Matters podcast with Anthony Flint and Kara Swisher. 

   The big technology companies could do big things to address climate change, says Silicon Valley chronicler Kara Swisher, host of the Sway podcast at the New York Times. Inventions await in...

9. Podcast: Elizabeth Kolbert Explains How a Toad Might Guide a Better Climate Future

   Videos y multimedia
   Diciembre 2021
   Season 2, Episode 10 of the Land Matters podcast with Anthony Flint and Elizabeth Kolbert. 

   The cane toad, introduced in Australia in the 1930s to control pests, quickly became a major problem itself – one of many examples of human interventions in natural systems that scientists...

10. Land Lines, January 2022

    Revista Land Lines
    Enero 2022
    Edited by Katharine Wroth

    This special land conservation issue explores the rise of civic conservation in China, the critical role land can play in addressing the climate crisis, the growth of solar energy systems on U.S....