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Beyond Takings and Givings: Saving Natural Areas, Farmland and Historic Landmarks with Transfer of Development Rights and Density Transfer Charges
The United States loses over four thousand acres of farmland and natural areas to development every day. Zoning is not a permanent solution. And few communities are able to use tax dollars for meaningful open space preservation. However, a growing number of communities are using a market-based preservation technique called transfer of development rights, or TDR. With TDR, the owners of land that these communities want to save, called sending areas, are compensated for voluntarily restricting their development potential. The owners of land on which communities want to allow growth, called receiving areas, are allowed additional development potential, but only when they participate in the preservation of the sending areas. "Beyond Takings and Givings" updates and expands the 1997 publication "Saved By Development", until now the most comprehensive book on TDR. "Beyond Takings and Givings" offers a progress report on most of the 112 TDR programs profiled in the 1997 book plus case studies of 30 additional programs. "Beyond Takings and Givings" provides a step-by-step guide to creating a TDR program and addresses the most commonly asked questions on this topic. What is TDR? How did TDR evolve? Where has TDR worked best? What are TDR's success factors? What are TDR's advantages and disadvantages? How does TDR compare with other implementation tools? Why doesn't everyone use TDR? And, for communities where adoption of a traditional TDR program seems doubtful, "Beyond Takings and Givings" explains density transfer charges, a tool that reduces the seemingly complex TDR mechanism to a single requirement. In addition, "Beyond Takings and Givings" places TDR within the context of the ongoing property rights debate. Some property rights advocates believe that governments should compensate for regulations that reduce but do not eliminate property value, or "partial takings." In contrast, some community rights advocates argue that compensation is inappropriate because value reductions are offset by the value increases created by government actions and regulations, often without reimbursement, or "givings." TDR offers a practical alternative to this stalemate. It recaptures a portion of the extra value created by additional development at receiving sites and uses it to offset value reductions experienced by the owners of sending area land who voluntarily restrict the development potential of their properties..
Price: $39.95
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From Fjord to Floathouse: One Family's Journey from the Farmlands of Norway to the Coast of British Columbia
In 1898 Vancouver, the flip of a coin sends his partner to the Klondike gold rush and leaves young Norwegian immigrant, Andy Forberg, to carve a living from trees found along the waterways of the remote coast of British Columbia. One hundred years later a granddaughter, driven by a need to explore her family heritage, experiences a heart-warming welcome at the farm he left so long ago. from Fjord to Floathouse is the saga of hardy pioneers living in snug floating homes and sustained by surrounding sea and forest. Their chosen life meant communication and transportation by water only, with semi-weekly shipments of mail and staple supplies (anything they could not shoot, catch, or pick). In short time segments complete with quotes, photographs, maps, recipes and family charts, readers are drawn into a rural lifestyle that only few have experienced, or even been aware existed..
Price: $22.00
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Government Policy and Farmland Markets: The Maintenance of Farmer Wealth
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The Taming of the Wilderness: Indiana's Transition From Indian Hunting Grounds to Hoosier Farmland: 1800 to 1875
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Life on the Farm: A Pictorial Journey of Minnesota's Farmland and its People
"Life on the Farm" is a photo book featuring 95 color images that promise to take you on a trip through Minnesota's Heartland There you will see the land, the animals, the people and the places that make Minnesota's rural areas like no other. "Life on the Farm", is a journey you won't want to miss! (This book also includes a fabulous foreword by Minnesota farmer and author, Brent Olson).
Price: $22.50
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Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms And Farmland
Farmers, who own or rent most of the private land in America, hold the key not only to the nation's food supply, but also to managing community growth, maintaining an attractive landscape, and protecting water and wildlife resources. While the issue of protecting farmland and open space is not new, the intensity of the challenge has increased. Farmers are harder pressed to make a living, and rural and suburban communities are struggling to accommodate increasing populations and the development that comes with them. Holding Our Ground can help landowners and communities devise and implement effective strategies for protecting farmland. The book: - discusses the reasons for protecting farmland and how to make those reasons widely known and understood
- describes the business of farming, federal government farm programs, and the role of land in farmers's decisions
- analyzes federal, state, and local farmland protection efforts and techniques
- explores a variety of land protection options including purchase of development rights; transfer of development rights; private land trusts; and financial, tax, and estate planning
- reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the farmland protection tools available
The authors describe the many challenges involved in protecting farmland and explain how to create a package of techniques that can meet those challenges. In addition, they offer appendixes with model zoning ordinances, nuisance disclaimers, conservation easements, and other documents that individuals and communities need to carry out the programs discussed. Holding Our Ground provides citizens, elected officials, planners, and landowners with a solid basis for understanding the issues behind farmland protection, and will be an invaluable resource in developing techniques and programs for achieving long-term protection goals..
Price: $23.99
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Old Fields: Dynamics and Restoration of Abandoned Farmland (The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Series)
Land abandonment is increasing as human influence on the globe intensifies and various ecological, social, and economic factors conspire to force the cessation of agriculture and other forms of land management. The “old fields” that result from abandonment have been the subject of much study, yet few attempts have been made to examine the larger questions raised by old field dynamics. Old Fields brings together leading experts from around the world to synthesize past and current work on old fields, providing an up-to-date perspective on the ecological dynamics of abandoned land. The book gives readers a broad understanding of why agricultural land is abandoned, the factors that determine the ecological recovery of old fields, and how this understanding contributes to theoretical and applied ecology. Twelve case studies from diverse geographical and climatic areas—including Australian rainforest, Brazilian Amazonia, New Jersey piedmont, and South African renosterveld—offer a global perspective on the causes and results of land abandonment. Concluding chapters consider the similarities and differences among the case studies, examine them in the context of ecological concepts, and discuss their relevance to the growing field of restoration ecology. Old Fields is the first book to draw together studies on old fields from both a theoretical and practical perspective. It represents an important contribution to the development of theory on old field dynamics and the practice of ecological restoration on abandoned farmland, and the broader implications of old field dynamics to ecology and restoration. .
Price: $39.97
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