Resources

Land Use Planning
Website that covers the importance of land use planning.
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/fslc/faqs2/ria_800.asp?section=18&click=1

Urban Sprawl
The Challenge to Sprawl Campaign works to fight poorly planned runaway development and promotes smart growth communities that increase transportation choices, reduce air and water pollution, and protect our natural places. http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/


Organizations

The Trust for Public Land (TPL)
Is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.
http://www.tpl.org/

The Nature Conservancy
Is the leading conservation organization working to protect the most ecologically important lands and waters around the world for nature and people.
http://www.nature.org/aboutus/

The Land Trust Alliance
The LTA promotes voluntary private land conservation to benefit communities and natural systems.
We are the national convener, strategist and representative of more than 1,600 land trusts across America.
http://www.lta.org/

The Conservation Fund
Is the nation’s foremost environmental nonprofit dedicated to protecting America’s most important landscapes and waterways. Through its partnership-driven approach, the Fund works across all 50 states to preserve each region's unique natural resources, cultural heritage and historic places. Committed to effectiveness, efficiency and environmental and economic balance, the Fund is pioneering a new environmentalism that is results-oriented and sustainable, agile and inclusive, and one that inspires future generations. http://www.conservationfund.org/

Rural Development Institute
RDI is a nonprofit organization of attorneys helping the rural poor in developing countries obtain legal rights to land.
www.rdiland.org