1st Edition
American Farmland Preservation Policies, Practices, and the Politics of Place
By Andrew Waters
Copyright 2027
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines modern American farmland preservation, arguing that its policies must address the social, identity, and psychological issues facing American farmers.
As American farmland is disappearing rapidly, this crisis not only jeopardizes American agriculture but also threatens rural communities. While the American farmland preservation movement has focused on conservation easements,... Read more
1. Farmland Preservation: A Wicked Problem Part One Foundations of American Farmland Preservation 2. A Tale of Two Farmlands 3. Setting the Stage for Crisis: American Farmland Preservation Policy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 4. American Farmland Preservation and the Spirit of the Law 5. American Agrarianism Part Two American Farmland Preservation Practices and Policies Today 6. American Farmland Preservation Today 7. Conservation Easements 8. Zoning, Planning, TDR, and Agricultural District Programs 9. State Policy, Greenbelts, and Open Space Bonds 10. Farmland Transition Part Three American Farmland Preservation and the Politics of Place 11. Farmland Preservation, Social Capital, and Sense of Place 12. The Politics of Place 13. New Tools for Old Paradigms 14. Bridging Organizations and Transformational Leadership 15. Narrative Networks 16. Crowdlending and Digital Farmland Preservation 17. International Farmland Preservation 18. Farmland Preservation in America: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Biography
Andrew Waters completed his Ph.D. in natural resources policy from Clemson University in 2022 after a twenty-year career in land conservation and land trust leadership. Today, Waters works full-time as the farmland preservation coordinator for Chatham County, a rapidly urbanizing area in North Carolina’s dynamic “Triangle” region, and serves as lecturer in the Master of Public Administration program at Clemson University, where he has taught a self-designed course on sustainable land use and adaptive government.
