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Land Trusts in Florida: A Brief Guide to Land Trusts for Protecting Land in your Community
EDIS, 2017 A land trust is a private nonprofit organization that owns and manages land to protect its natural, economic, and cultural value. This document provides an overview of the role that land trusts plan in conservation, and how landowners may contact or ...
Benjamin North +1 more
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Land trusts conserve California farmland
California Agriculture, 1998 Communities can conserve farmland with land-use plans and zoning ordinances, but regulatory efforts are often transitory because future elected officials can revise them.
E Vink
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Basic Steps to Creating a Conservation Land Trust in Florida
EDIS, 2019 Conservation land trusts, more commonly called land trusts, are private 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that protect land important to your community for its natural, cultural, and recreational value.
Benjamin W. North +2 more
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Land trusts as a complementary solution to nature conservation system in Poland
Economics and Environment, 2023 This article is a new voice in the debate on the future of nature conservation in Poland. It develops the subject of grass-roots initiatives in the context of the most important contemporary challenges related to area-based nature conservation.
Agata Burlińska, Aleksandra Nowakowska
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Land Trusts and Beginning Farmers' Access to Land: Exploring the Relationships in Coastal California
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 This paper examines relationships between beginner farmers and land trusts in coastal California. Set within the context of land consolidation in agriculture and increasing land values, some beginner farmers have created innovative land tenure ...
Jessica Beckett, Ryan E. Galt
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Ecology and Society, 2016 As an important component in collaborative natural resource management and nonprofit governance, social capital is expected to be related to variations in the performance of land trusts.
Tatyana B. Ruseva +2 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 Globally, privately protected area (PPA) programs are increasing in size and number. Participating in a PPA program can be fiscally challenging for landholders (e.g., enrollment costs; potential reduction in land value; opportunity costs; costs of ...
Matthew J. Selinske +4 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 Ranching communities in 10 Western states self‐organized to create conservation organizations affiliated with state livestock associations and supporting conservation efforts compatible with agricultural production.
Drew E. Bennett +3 more
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A place to belong: creating an urban, Indian, women-led land trust in the San Francisco Bay Area
Ecology and Society, 2023 When grounded in Indigenous epistemologies, land trust structures provide an effective, inclusive vehicle to enact community and landscape care in the face of colonial disruptions.
Beth R. Middleton Manning +6 more
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Living on the block: How equitable is tokenized equity?
Big Data & Society, 2023 Recently blockchain has become a tool for spatial coordination and appropriation. Globally, the tokenization of land and housing has led to new forms of datafication and increased financialization. In the case of land non-fungible tokens), security token
Jillian Crandall
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