A Lasting Legacy: Recommendations of the New England Governors Blue Ribbon Commission on Land Conservation

Autor/in	Barringer, Richard
Titel	A Lasting Legacy: Recommendations of the New England Governors Blue Ribbon Commission on Land Conservation
Quelle	In: New England Journal of Higher Education, 24 (2010) 3, S.26-27 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-5978
Schlagwörter	Citizenship; Public Policy; Wildlife; Conservation (Environment); Public Officials; Urbanization; Forestry; Cooperation; Private Sector; Nongovernmental Organizations; Agricultural Production; Natural Resources; Ecology; Public Sector + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerschaft; Öffentliche Ordnung; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Urbanisation; Urbanisierung; Forstwissenschaft; Waldwirtschaft; Co-operation; Kooperation; Privater Sektor; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Ökologie; Öffentlicher Sektor
Abstract	In September 2008, New England's governors established a blue-ribbon Commission on Land Conservation to identify the most urgent land-conservation issues facing New England today and provide recommendations to the governors in September 2009. New England faces profound threats to its land and natural-resource base. As the nation urbanizes further, efforts to re-create elsewhere what New England has long enjoyed come at a time when their own qualities of the landscape are in peril. This is a critical time to engage the next generation of citizens of New England, to care about their future landscape and quality of place as an active duty of citizenship. A series of forums with concerned citizens across New England convinced the commission that New England may once again lead the nation, this time through a "collaborative partnership" among the public, private and non-governmental actors that are vital to land conservation in the 21st Century. The collaborative strategy that they propose is enabled by new technologies that allow much-improved cross-boundary analysis. The commission offers five recommendations on which to build a conservation legacy for future generations: (1) Keep Forests as Forests; (2) Keep Farmlands in Farming; (3) Connect People to the Outdoors; (4) Protect Wildlife Habitat; and (5) Safeguard Coastal and Estuarine Lands. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	New England Board of Higher Education. 45 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111. Tel: 617-357-9620; Fax: 617-338-1577; e-mail: info@nebhe.org; Web site: http://www.nebhe.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10