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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Land trusts"”.
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Urban community land trusts in Boston
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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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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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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The Story of Rubina: Lessons on Self-governance in Peruvian informal settlements and Considerations for Community Land Trusts
… Both have caused adverse side effects such as land speculation and land trafficking, respectively. This thesis studies the failure of these past policies and proposes that a new property regime - Community Land Trusts (CLTs) - might be the optimal way to address these property and housing …
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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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Balancing Purpose and Growth: Evaluating Community Land Trusts (CLTs) as an Organizational Model and the Imperative for Strategic Management
… rental markets across income levels. Community land trusts (CLTs) have gained popularity as a promising model to help preserve long-term affordable housing. However, while CLTs have been extensively studied conceptually, relatively little research has examined the strategic management choices …
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Wetland mitigation banking as a tool for conservation
This comment proposes that wetland mitigation banking under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act be employed by land trusts and conservation groups to generate revenue for funding land acquisitions and on-going stewardship for both wetland and wetland-related upland habitats threatened or impacted by …
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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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Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana
… easements have historically been used by land trusts and government agencies to preserve private land from development and subdivision, to preserve unique geological features, and protect fish and wildlife habitat. The national and Montana state conservation easement legislation does not …
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Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana
… easements have historically been used by land trusts and government agencies to preserve private land from development and subdivision, to preserve unique geological features, and protect fish and wildlife habitat. The national and Montana state conservation easement legislation does not …
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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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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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The Battle of Gentrification vs. Centrification: The role of nonprofits
… policy, programs, outreach, engagement, CDCs, land trusts, etc. to mitigate the negative impacts of gentrification. As gentrification has become increasingly integrated into a competitive cityscape of economic development, this paper asks if a practice of ‘centrification’ within community can …
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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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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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Private Preservation: Using Garden City-Inspired Legal Tools to Preserve Communities and Heritage
… how a reappropriation of privatism and communal land ownership and management can work to preserve communities and heritage as an alternative set of tools to public preservation. Using the law of property to explore private legal and economic preservation tools, this thesis explores the …
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Donations and sales of conservation easements on forestland in the Northern Forest of New York State
… is a study of conservation easements of forestland in the Northern forest Region of New York State. Forestland easements are the subset of conservation easements encumbering forestland. As of 1995, there were 79 of these forestland easements within the study area. Of this total of 79 forestland …
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Rents, efficiency, and incomplete markets: exploring the inner workings of the emerging market for private land preservation and conservation easements
This economic study explores land market development and identifies contributing sources to incomplete markets (markets that do not operate efficiently or yield consistent price information). I make the case that the market for private land preservation–land that is preserved through the efforts of …
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