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From the Ground Up: How Land Trusts and Conservancies are Providing Solutions to Climate Change

This Policy Focus Report presents a dozen case studies that demonstrate how land trusts, conservancies, and other nongovernmental civic organizations have meaningfully addressed climate change over the past several decades. These organizations are working to protect land, biodiversity, and historic resources in more than 100 countries on ...
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Green Infrastructure Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration Privately Protected Areas Stewardship and Land Management

An Open Field: Emerging Opportunities for a Global Private Land Conservation Movement

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

This paper explores the history of the land trust movement in the US, looks at specific examples of the growing private land conservation movement around the globe, and proposes a model that includes a framework of legal, financial and organizational elements.
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Working Paper / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas

Conservation on Private Land: A Review of Global Strategies with a Proposed Classification System

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

With parks and protected areas insufficient to sustain global biodiversity, the role of private land in biodiversity conservation is increasingly significant. This paper proposes a classification system for private land conservation as a complement to IUCN's classification of global protected areas.
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Resource Type Research Paper
Topic Law and Policy / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

Alternative Ways to Support Private Land Conservation

European Commission

This report for the European Commission extensively details current global trends occurring in private land conservation. It offers analysis of such trends and also suggests alternative methodologies for performing private land conservation in different areas of the world depending on legal, governance, and financial structures.
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Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Law and Policy / Privately Protected Areas