Land and water policy can shape the built and natural environment to reduce the extent of climate change and help communities and natural systems withstand the impacts of rising temperatures and sea levels.
We seek transformative and systemic change, leveraging land policy and planning practice to reduce energy demand, transition to more sustainable transportation and energy systems, increase community resilience, balance trade-offs, and create thriving, inclusive communities.
Ongoing threats to land resources diminish resilience in communities and exacerbate poverty and spatial inequality. The Lincoln Institute builds cross-sectoral capacity to more sustainably steward and manage land resources in the United States and around the globe.
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A thriving, sustainable future requires that communities consider land and water decisions together, not in siloes. The Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, founded at the Lincoln Institute in 2017, works with communities to better integrate land and water planning.
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