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Reports: Land Use

The Power of Parks to Strengthen Community: A Special Report
Trust for Public Land, May 2024, 18 pp.
This report focuses on the importance of parks as a neutral public gathering place where community members can meet, collaborate, and become empowered. It explores different approaches, programs, and partnerships which can foster connections in a community. more info >

Clean Energy Project Development for Low-Income Communities Strengthening the Ecosystem for Delivering Solar Energy and Deep Efficiency Retrofits
Carsey Institute for Public Policy, February 2022, 16 pp.
Scaling clean energy in low-income communities presents challenges. This report outlines a road map depicting the ecosystem needed to deliver clean energy projects to underserved communities.It includes examples of work that different organizations are doing and concludes that more capacity-building funding and support is needed at the grassroots level of the ecosystem. more info >

Understanding Rural Attitudes Toward the Environment and Conservation in America
Duke Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, September 2020, 40 pp.
Results of a national survey about the environment and environmental policy, examining attitudes about conservation, stewardship, climate change, and place identity. more info >

Building Climate Resiliency: Fact Sheets
Center for Rural Affairs, January 2020
A series of four fact sheets that focus on building rural resiliency in the face of climate change and elevating the stories of rural climate leaders. more info >

Web sites

Smart Growth
Resources and information on smart growth strategies that can help communities grow in ways that expand economic opportunity while protecting human health and the environment. more info >