Biodiversity And Smart Growth

There is obvious potential in funding collaborations between smart growth and wildlife and wilderness activists. The fact that all parties – advocates, developers, property owners, and government agencies eager to avoid costly mitigation and lawsuits – want certainty about which lands can be developed and which cannot affords tremendous opportunity for broad-based collaborations. The availability of good science and new technology makes comprehensive planning efforts possible. This paper discusses the relationship between biodiversity conservation and smart growth, the work that is being done, and suggests promising strategies and explicit collaborations for consideration by philanthropic and public funders and other key actors.

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