Resilient Communities Starter Kit
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Westwide Reports
ReStore – 06.2014
DownloadWorkshop participants identified several alternative approaches for further study. For example, alternative compensation schemes including annual payments or royalty payments merited much discussion. There was also interest in new approaches to landowner negotiations,… MORE ›
Getting Right-of-Way Right
DownloadIn January 2013, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Sonoran Institute, Headwaters Economics and the Western Governors’ Association convened a workshop focusing on landowner compensation for electric power transmission (transmission) rights-of-way. In particular,… MORE ›
RESET – Assessing Future Housing Markets in the Rocky Mountain West 03.13.2013
DownloadLeasing Renewable Energy on State Trust Lands in the Intermountain West 01.01.2013
DownloadThis report discusses the status and trends of renewable energy on state trust lands, and makes recommendations for ways to better incorporate renewable energy into state trust land portfolios.
WestWord – Summer 2008
DownloadWestWord – Summer 2011
DownloadSustaining Large Landscape Conservation Partnerships – Strategies for Success 06.01.2012
DownloadAn Analysis of Contributory Value on Trust Lands in the West 12.01.2011
DownloadThis working paper seeks to explain the obstacles and outline recommendations to create an environment that supports the use of contributory value and nonmonetary consideration allowing state trust lands to be used for… MORE ›
Landscapes Of The American Spirit – A Celebration Of The National Landscape Conservation System And Its Community Partnerships – 10.15.2010
DownloadNational Historic Trails Interpretive Center – 10.01.2010
DownloadSanta Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument – NLCS Profile – 10.01.2010
DownloadIn The Line Of Fire – Managing Growth At The Forests Edge – Protecting Lives Ecosystems And Tax Payer Dollars – 04.15.2010
DownloadPlanning For Climate Change In The West – Policy Focus Report – 02.01.2010
DownloadPlanning for Climate Change in the West offers regional planners techniques for addressing climate change concerns while they focus on issues affecting regional growth. This Policy Focus Report acknowledges the critical role of… MORE ›
Local Land Use Planning and Climage Change Policy – Summary Report From Focus Groups and Interviews with Local Officials in the Intermountain West 12.01.2009
DownloadPlanning for climate change entails many challenges, and in the Intermountain West this may be particularly so. In early 2009, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3 Research) conducted a series of focus… MORE ›
Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Local Economies 10.01.2009
DownloadWide ranging climate change impacts will compel households, businesses, farmers, land managers, and local governments to adapt. The key question is whether adaptation will be ad hoc or guided. There are cost-efficient reasons to… MORE ›
Western Landscapes In The Crossfire – Urban Growth And The National Landscape Convservation System – 07.10.2009
DownloadGrowing Cooler – Energy Efficient Land Use And Transportation Planning – 06.01.2009
DownloadLand Use Planning and the Changing Climate of the West 12.01.2008
DownloadThis paper reviews effective greenhouse gas mitigation policies policies and discusses the challenges that land use planners may face in attempting to implement land use planning-related state climate action policies at the local… MORE ›