Area of Focus: Land Use Policy

Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: Jun 06, 2007

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Land Use Policy

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Definition Land use policy refers to the practice of creating new regulations and practices, and of changing existing ones that have been adopted by a government or an organization, and that govern activity related to land use and planning, through electoral politics, bond issues, referenda, private land purchase, campaigning, lobbying, advocacy and direct action. <

FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS

The International Land Coalition is a global alliance of intergovernmental, governmental and civil-society organizations. The Coalition works together with the rural poor to increase their secure access to natural resources, especially land, and to enable them to participate directly in policy and decision-making processes that affect their livelihoods at local, national, regional and international levels.

Maryland Land Conservation Center The Maryland Environmental Trust (MET) assists citizen groups in the formation and operation of local land trusts by offering training, technical assistance, administrative grants and real estate acquisition loans, through membership in the Maryland Land Trust Alliance (MLTA), an informal association of national, state, regional and local land conservation organizations working in Maryland.

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"...The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), in its periodic inventory of natural resources, reported in 1999 that during the five-year period from 1992 to 1997 the nation's privately held forests, croplands, and wetlands were lost to development in and around cities and towns at twice the rate they were from 1982 to 1992."
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"Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam and floatsam of your great melting pot. "
Mary Brave Bird