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Restoring Public Trust in the Public Lands: An Agenda for the New Administration

ELQ Journal

January 27th 2009

Eric Biber, Holly Doremus, Dan Farber, Rick Frank, and Joseph Sax * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] Federally-owned and managed public lands occupy approximately thirty percent of the land area of the United States, and anywhere from forty-five percent to over eighty percent of the land area ...

Land Use and Climate Change: Is it Time for a National Land Use Policy?

ELQ Journal

November 24th 2008

Catherine J. LaCroix * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] The immediate and short answer to the question in the title is no. It will never be time for an articulated federal land use policy; the tradition of local control of land use is simply too strong. But ...

Integrating Land Use and Transportation Policy in California: The Legislature’s Response

ELQ Journal

September 15th 2008

Dave Jones * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] The Challenge Accelerated climate change is the preeminent environmental and economic issue of our time. Unless we change course now, it will be the preeminent issue for the next generations also. Recognizing the situation, the Legislature passed Assembly Bill ...

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