Integrating Land and Water Decisions

The Center promotes integrated approaches to land use and water. Center staff frequently speak to professional water management, land use planning, and public policy groups about the need to think about water and land use in law and policy and about specific techniques for doing so.

Various Center publications have helped to frame public discussions about these issues, and have been distributed widely among lawmakers and others interested in improving their state and local policies. Center staff provide public education on these topics through postings on electronic forums such as Headwaters News and Science Progress.

With the support of the Bullitt Foundation, the Center is currently working on an expanded and updated land use and water planning guidebook, which will be released in 2011. In addition, Senior Associate Sarah Bates is pursuing these and related topics as a project team member of the Carpe Diem Western Water and Climate Change Project.