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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Land Trust"”.
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Mapping impact : an analysis of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Land Trust
… Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) community land trust, which provides long-term affordable housing to low-income families using a resale-restricted model and promotes community control over development. It seeks to answer the following question: how much and in what ways has DSNI's land …
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Seeding Trust, Sustaining Equity: Funding and Financing Relationships in the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network
Interest in community land trusts (CLTs) as one tool for stable, affordable housing and local autonomy over urban planning processes is growing rapidly—particularly in the past decade, in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis and the destruction of wealth and housing security that foreclosure …
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Feasibility study of carbon offsets as a source of revenue for a land trust using the Climate Action Reserve's avoided conversion protocol
In 2008, 279 million hectares of forest land contained 45,337 teragrams (Tg) of carbon. Changes in land use and forestry practices in 2008 resulted in a net carbon sequestration of 940.3 Tg of carbon dioxide equivalent, or 13.5% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, making forests a net …
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Examining the role of social capital in community development: How the creation of a land trust set a small town on the path to sustainability
… Vermont town. A case study of the community's land use planning history from the 1960's through to the present assesses the actions and relationships among individuals and institutions engaged in civic efforts to achieve environmental, economic, and social balance in development …
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The vascular flora of the Lula Lake land trust on Lookout Mountain in Walker County, Georgia and a biogeographical analysis of the Coastal Plain element on the Cumberland Plateau
The vascular flora of the Lula Lake Land Trust (LLLT) atop Lookout Mountain in Walker County, Georgia was surveyed from 2012 to 2014. A total of 60 collecting trips were made with 672 species and lesser taxa documented. Twenty-eight rare species of conservation concern were documented including the …
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An Analysis of Rangeland Preservation in Western States
Rangelands cover a vast portion of the U.S., providing myriad environmental services (e.g. clean water, open space, wildlife habitat). The majority of these working landscapes are privately owned and are situated on the wettest and most productive lands in the West, but ranchers often require …
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Collaboration in Unlikely Spaces: The Characteristics and Promise of Successful Collaboration Among Affordable Housing and Environmental Conservation Proponents
There is a decreasing amount of available land and competing priorities for the use of it. Land value appreciation and the effects of climate change reduce the amount of viable land at affordable prices. Sectors and stakeholders with contending interests for land parcels have a choice; they can …
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The Role of Community Land Trusts in Preserving and Creating Commercial Assets: A Dual Cae Study of Rondo CLT in St. Paul, Minnesota and Crescent City CLT in New Orleans, Louisiana
<p>As the community land trust (CLT) movement in the United States approaches its 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary, CLT members, practitioners and researchers are exploring and pushing the boundaries of the model. CLTs offer an alternative model of land use tenure that permanently removes properties …
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Coupling Targeting and Community Land Trusts: A Comprehensive Strategy for Revitalizing the Oretha Castle Haley Corridor and Central City
… recommends the incorporation of a Community Land Trust (CLT) into NORA‘s Central City Strategy to aid in effectively revitalizing the neighborhood without compromising affordability.</p>
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Truth and Reconciliation at the Bay: Environmental Discourse, Contested Notions of Human-Creation Relations in Mnidoo Gaamii/Georgian Bay, and Indigenous-Cottager Relations
How does environmental conservation land use planning, an endeavour that seeks to provide tools to combat climate change and protect habitat from destruction through development, contribute to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands/waters in Mnidoo Gamii/Georgian Bay? Through an …
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Traditional authorities and co-management of protected areas in South Africa: the case of Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape
… the role of traditional authorities in the post-land claim co-management of protected areas in the former Bantustans of South Africa, using the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve (DCNR) in the Eastern Cape as a case study. The DCNR was one of the first successful land claims involving a protected area …
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The missing designers : a history of activists designing for racial justice
… In Chapter Two, I examine the New Communities land trust and their design charrettes as a democratic intervention in an often professionalized planning process. Chapter Three considers how Critical Race Theory decodes images in these cases that seem natural, inevitable, and race neutral.
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Strategic Conservation Planning for High Knob, Virginia: A GIS Decision Support Approach
… spatial distribution of those values across a landscape of concern. The goal of this study was to help conservation organizations improve decision making for implementation of prioritization-based strategies for land protection using a GIS-based, multi-criteria decision support system …
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Show me what community looks like! : designing a popular education curriculum for a Los Angeles-based CLT
… a curriculum with a South Los Angeles community land trust. This project incorporates elements of popular education, critical pedagogy, alternative models of housing tenure, and participatory knowledge creation, both in the content and the process of designing the curriculum. I begin the thesis …
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An Exploration of Emerging Collaborative Conservation Strategies to Support Sustainable Development in the United States
… development as practiced by conservation land trusts and community landcare groups, as well as by faculty and staff at land grant universities. The first paper included in this dissertation explores "Conservation 2.0" strategies being developed and employed by land trust across the US to …
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Community Land Trusts: resilient in a crisis and a potential model for local development in the Outer Hebrides
This study looks at the resilience of Community Land Trusts in the Outer Hebrides and whether they can be seen as a model for sustainable local development.<br/>The evidence gathered for the study indicates that for some communities in the Outer Hebrides, a Community Land Trust has delivered …
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Power, planning, and the right to the post-disaster city : exploring opportunities for long-term housing affordability and resilience in earthquake recovery
… to develop new uses, facilitating changes in land ownership, and drawing on an influx of institutional funding for development projects, disasters can be catalysts for reshaping the city. I introduce the community land trust (CLT) model as a strategy uniquely suited to use these opportunities …
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Remediation by inspiration : artist-driven models for environmental clean-up
… Denes, 1989-91), and Wingfield Pines (Allegheny Land Trust, Angelo Ciotti, 2001-2010). Cases where there is an "artist as activator" are New Haven Long Wharf Master Plan (Michael Singer, 1988-1990), Nine Mile Run Watershed Project (STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, 1997-2000), and Fundred/Operation …
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A Survey of Conservation Easement Restrictions on Private Forest Land to Determine their Effects on Forest Management and Timber Supply
… easements are increasingly becoming a popular land use control for landowners, government agencies and non-profit conservation organizations. These legal documents restrict a landowner's development rights and constrain other property uses. The landowner (grantor) voluntarily places an easement …
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Communities of the Dispossessed or Technocratic Housing Nonprofits? Political Logics Animating Community Land Trusts across the American Southwest
… goals, frameworks, and practices of Community Land Trusts (CLTs) across the Southwest, in order to contribute to ongoing scholarly conversations about the potential cooptation of the CLT movement. In doing so, it contributes to the perennial question of how actors might challenge or subvert …
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