Sustainable Communities Strategies and Conservation
Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCSs), which link land use, transportation and climate policy, are designed to reduce per capita greenhouse gas emissions while providing benefits ranging from improved air quality and expanded transportation options to revitalization of city centers and investment in disadvantaged communities. Because conservation of natural and working lands is essential to achieving these goals, most SCSs include policies, objectives or implementation measures relating to conservation, and many take innovative approaches that may be of use to other regions.
Photo: Mark Godfrey / The Nature Conservancy, 2007.
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Sustainable Communities Strategies and Conservation: Results from the First Round and Policy Recommendations for Future Rounds, prepared by Adam Livingston for The Nature Conservancy, seeks to build on these successes and help planners achieve more robust results in future rounds. To do so, it surveys conservation measures in existing SCSs, along with conservation-related proposals that were made but not adopted in each region, and then offers a selection of model policies and best practices for future SCSs.
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