Land Conservation Financing

Author: Ed McMahon and Mike McQueen
Publisher: Island Press, 2003
Layout: Softcover, 299 pages
Price: $25.00

Land Conservation Financing provides a comprehensive overview of successful land conservation programs -- how they were created, how they are funded and what they’ve accomplished -- along with detailed case studies from across the United States. The book presents important new information on state-of-the-art approaches to financing land conservation in the United States and showcases state programs that have become the nation's leaders in open-space protection.

Land Conservation Financing also looks at key local land protection efforts and model programs in many areas across the country, examining how hundreds of communities have created billions of dollars in new funding for land conservation by developing successful campaigns to win ballot measures. McMahon and McQueen offer case studies and present lessons learned as they lay out how to run a successful campaign. The authors even consider the role of private foundations, which have made immense contributions to land conservation over the past two decades.

The book includes an examination of the emerging concept of green infrastructure -- a strategic approach to land conservation that involves planning and managing a network of parks, natural areas, greenways and working lands that can help to shape growth, maintain ecological processes and contribute to the health and quality of life for America’s people and its communities.

Land Conservation Financing is an indispensable resource for land conservationists in the public and private sectors who are looking for a detailed, national portrait of the state of land conservation in America today.