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The Food System: A Stranger To The Planning Field
Vol. 66, November 2007by: Jerome Kaufman, FAICP, Kameshwari PothukuchiThis article describes how conventional planning takes on the mantle of a future forward and public driven mentality and how food systems tend to be overlooked. -
Placing The Food System On The Urban Agenda: The Role Of Municipal Institutions In Food Systems Planning
June 199by: Kami PothukuchiThis article identifies and describes how foods systems are both overlooked and a connected and integral urban issue. -
Facilitate Healthy And Environmentally Sustainable Diet-Related Practices: A Scoping Review
October 2021by: Liza Barbour, Rebecca Lindberg, Julie Woods, Karen Charlton, Julie BrimblecombeThis article discusses what local governments globally have done to implement and facilitate food systems. -
State And Communities In Urban Food Governance: Lessons From COVID And Insights For The Future
May 2023by: Johan Nordnsvard, Bingqin Li, Catalina Turcu, Jiwei Qian, Young-hwan Byun, Yiran Li, Carl-Johan Sommar, Martina RotoloThis article discusses food systems from an urban governance perspective and analyzes how Covid-19 had an impact on the system. -
Model Open Space Design / Natural Resource Protection Zoning
Smart Growth/Smart Energy Toolkit, 2007This model zoning bylaw/ordinance provides a template for communities in Massachusetts to incorporate open space design and natural resource protection into their regulations. -
Growing Local Food Systems: A Case Study Series On The Role Of Local Governments
March 2015by: Laura Goddeeris, AICP, Katherine Takai, Abigail RybnicekThis case study analyzes the role of local governments and their space in promoting and supporting food systems at the local and regional level. -
The Political Economy Of Food System Transformation: Pathways To Progress In A Polarized World
2023by: Danielle Resnick, Johan SwinnenThis book discusses how and why food system policy pathways are so contested, and how to achieve food systems in a polarized world. -
The Role Of Food Policy Councils In Developing Sustainable Food Systems
Vol. 3, 2008by: Rebecca Schiff, Journal of Hunger & Envrionmental NutritionThis article discusses food system solutions with one of these being food policy councils and how they can be the bridge gap between public, private, and academic entities. -
Planning For Local Food Systems: A Whatcom County Case Study
May 2023by: Lisa Pool, AICP, Ali JensenThis blog post discusses and analyzes the Whatcom County Food Systems plan and how integral local governments are in the process. -
Building Sustainable And Resilient City Region Food Systems Assessment And Planning Handbook
2023This guide focuses on the need for resilient and sustainable city/regional food systems. -
Food System resilience: A Planning Guide For Local Governments
December 2022by: Elsie Moore, Erin Biehl, Meg Burke, Karen Bassarab, Caitlin Misiaszek, Roni NeffThis guide put the focus of local food systems and local governments efforts in the light of equity. -
City Practitioners Handbook: Circular Food Systems
September 2021The guide published by ICLEI and Circulars is for local and regional planners and governments looking to connect their local food systems. -
The Planner's Guide To The Urban Food System
January 2008by: Bowen Patterson, Arly CassidyThis guide discusses how and why food systems interact and are affected by economic, environmental, and social issues. -
The How And Why Of Local Government Support For Food Systems
November 2016This online training focuses on how and why it is important for local governments to support for food systems. -
Environmental Impacts Along Food Supply Chains
September 2022by: Koen Deconinck, Lucinda ToyamaThis report analyzes what is and isn't known about the environmental impacts that impact or are placed on the food supply chains. -
Gender And Food Systems
September 2022by: Celine Giner, May Hobeika, Chiara FischettiThis report analyzes how gender inclusion can play a role in food systems. -
Urban Agriculture And A Planning Approach To Urban Food Systems
No. 4, 2014by: Stephanie White, Michael HammThis report discusses city food systems in a rapidly urbanizing context. -
Municipal Food Systems Planning Toolkit For MAPC Communities
December 2013by: Liz Carver, Joanna Hamilton, Jasmine Tanguay, Julie ConroyThis toolkit addresses that local governments historically have focused on land use, water, housing, and health but have failed to consider food systems as a local issue. -
Improved Rural Urban Linkages: Building Sustainable Food Systems
January 2017This video focuses on how the interconnection of urban and rural will only be further constrained specifically in regards to food systems. -
Simple Planning Tool For Oklahoma Climate Hazards
V 1.7, January 2023by: Leah Kos, Rachel Riley, Mark Shafer, Darrian BerfrandThis toolkit belongs to both the Climate Change and Hazard Mitigation collections. -
Rhode Island Comprehensive Plans and State Approval Status
2017This web page contains links to all state-approved local comprehensive plans in Rhode Island. -
Georgia Comprehensive Plans
2018This web page contains links to nearly all local comprehensive plans in Georgia. -
Fairfax, VA, 2035 Comprehensive Plan
Adopted February 2019The city’s comprehensive plan was adopted on February 2019, organizes its core outcomes in 5 main Chapters and 12 sub sections. -
Hilton Head Island, SC, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted October 2020The city’s comprehensive plan initially adopted on October 2020, organizes its core value in six subsequent chapters. -
Greensboro, NC, GSO2040
Adopted June 2020The city’s comprehensive plan initially adopted on June 2020, organizes its policy recommendations under 6 Big Ideas. -
Maryland Comprehensive Plans
2023This web page, maintained by the Maryland Department of Planning, contains links to nearly all local comprehensive plans adopted by municipalities and counties in Maryland, organized by county. -
Fate, TX, Forward Fate
Adopted October 2021by: The City of Fate, TexasThe city’s comprehensive plan, initially adopted in October 2021, includes 3 chapters. -
Dark-Sky Association: Guides and How-Tos
2023This web page provides links to a wide range of guidance materials for advocates, lighting designers, and local officials to help them minimize light pollution. -
A Municipal Guide for Converting to LED Street Lighting
2020This industry guide offers step-by-step process to convert a municipality's street lighting to LED. -
Santa Barbara, CA, Outdoor Lighting & Streetlight Design Guidelines
Updated July 26, 2013This guide establishes the city's outdoor lighting design requirements for public and private lighting. -
Kennebunkport, ME, Town Code
Updated December 2022The town’s outdoor lighting ordinance is simple but widely cited as one of the best outdoor lighting ordinances. -
Lincoln, NE, Outdoor Lighting Study
January 3, 2008by: Molson AssociatesThis report examines current lighting standards in Lincoln and makes recommendations for new outdoor lighting standards. -
Oakville, CA, Municipal Lighting Strategy and Policy Study: Lighting of Sports Fields in Residential Neighborhoods
Approved April 6, 2010This report studies sports-field lighting to minimize impacts on existing established neighborhoods. -
Blinded by the Light: The Enforcement of Outdoor Municipal Lighting Ordinances in Texas
2015 TMCEC Prosecutor Conferenceby: Ryan TurnerThis paper examines methods of lighting ordinance enforcement. -
Detroit, MI, A Placemaking Vision for Downtown Detroit
2013The city’s downtown plan outlines how placemaking strategies to strengthen public spaces and incorporates creative placemaking to support arts and culture. -
Encouraging Efficient Green Infrastructure Investment
2013by: Environmental Finance Center, University of Maryland, Jennifer CottingThis report discusses the numerous federal green infrastructure policies, funding, and technical assistance programs supporting green infrastructure implementation. -
A Comparative Risk Assessment Framework for Wildland Fire Management: The 2010 Cohesive Strategy Science Report
2011by: David Calkin, Alan Ager, Karin RileyThis report explores the general science available for a risk based approach for the purpose of fire and fuels management and presents multi-scalar applicable analyses. -
Archetypes of Wildland-Urban Interface Communities: Making Communities Fire Resilient
2015by: Daniel WilliamsThis report presents the social characteristics of WUI communities and discusses innovative approaches related to wildfire planning. -
Critical Elements in the Development and Implementation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs)
The Fire Environment—Innovations, Management, and Policy Conference Proceedings, March 2007by: Pamela Jakes, Sam Burns, Antony ChengThis article discusses the benefits of CWPP development based on case studies of eight States – California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Virginia, and Wisconsin. -
Community Wildfire Protection Planning: The Importance of Framing, Scale, and Building Sustainable Capacity
Journal of Forestry, 110(8): 415-420, 2012by: Sam Burns, Victoria Sturtevant, Emily StaychockThis article provides information on best management practices (BMPs) that facilitate CWPP development. -
Categorizing the Social Context of the Wildland Urban Interface: Adaptive Capacity for Wildfire and Community “Archetypes”
Forest Science, 61(2): 298-310, 2015by: Travis Paveglio, Cassandra Moseley, Emily DavisThis article examines in detail the adaptive capacity of communities from wildfires based on the comparison of 18 existing community wildfire case studies. -
Factors Related to Building Loss Due to Wildfires in The Conterminous United States
The Ecological Society of America, 26(7): 2323-2338, 2016by: Patricia Alexandre, Susan Stewart, Miranda MockrinThis article examines factors affecting building loss due to wildfires in the conterminous Unites States, and discusses the impact of ecoregions on relative roles. -
Adapting to Wildfire: Rebuilding After Home Loss
Society & Natural Resources, 28(8): 839-856, 2014by: Miranda Mockrin, Susan Stewart, Volker RadeloffThis article aims to understand the adaptive capacities of individuals and communities post-wildfires based on the case study of the 2010 Fourmile Canyon Fire in Boulder, Colorado. -
Fourmile Canyon: Living with Wildfire
Fire Management Today, May 2011by: Patricia Champ, Hannah SmithThis article discusses the case study of Fourmile Canyon Fire of Colorado for presenting the characterization of the residents living in high wildfire-risk areas of the Fourmile Fire evacuation zone. -
Demographic Trends, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Wildfire Management
Society & Natural Resources, 22(8): 777-782, 2008by: Roger Hammer, Susan Stewart, Volker RadeloffThis article discusses emergence of WUI and the impact of demographic trends on the wildfire management problem in the United States. -
Defining the Wildland–Urban Interface
Journal of Forestry, 201-207, June 2007by: Susan Stewart, Volker Radeloff, Roger HammerThis article presents the policy definition of WUI and provides recommendations to guide strategic planning of the WUI. -
Social Learning in a Policy-Mandated Collaboration: Community Wildfire Protection Planning in the Eastern United States
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 53(6): 681-699, 2009by: Rachel Brummel, Kristen Nelson, Pamela JakesThis article investigates social learning and transformative learning in three case studies of Community Wildfire Protection Planning (CWPP), based in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Florida. -
The Relative Impacts of Vegetation, Topography and Spatial Arrangement on Building Loss to Wildfires in Case Studies of California and Colorado
Landscape Ecology, 31(2): 415-430, 2016by: Susan Stewart, Miranda Mockrin, Avi Bar-MassadaThis article presents the case studies of two fires: San Diego, CA and Boulder, CO. It analyses factors that impact the probability of building loss in a wildfire event. -
Trying Not to Get Burned: Understanding Homeowners’ Wildfire Risk–Mitigation Behaviors
Environmental Management, 50(6): 1139-1151, 2012by: Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia Champ, Nicholas FloresThis article examines implementation of wildfire risk mitigation measures based on the case study of Larimer and Boulder counties of Colorado. -
The Hidden Consequences of Fire Suppression
Park Science, 28(3): 75-80, 2012by: Carol MillerThis article discusses computer modelling useful in quantifying and monitoring the various impacts of wildfires based on the case study of Yosemite and Sequoia – Kings Canyon National Parks.