ENG BE 566 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Land Trust, Organizational Learning, Environmental Governance
28 Feb 2018
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Conservation easements (ces) are part of the global trend toward decentralized environmental governance in which nonprofit and government entities negotiate standards and enforce rules. Ces are non possessory rights over land. Rights are generally negative which allows holder to prevent landowner from doing something. Affirmative gives them option to do something. Generally include prohibitions on development, limit activities on wetlands. Restrict or permit landowner to do something. Formed when conservationists were displeased with the. Driven by the growth of the land trust movement. Ces are getting longer and more complicated. This increase in complexity likely has many sources, including repeat players in negotiations, contingency planning, diffusion of innovation, organizational learning, and the increased prominence of purchased ces on large properties with working land uses.
