Changing Views, Values, and Uses of Land

In collaboration with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICPLST) decided to invite some of the best thinkers on land and land issues to prepare papers on land-related topics that would be important between the present time and the year 2015. We believe that the papers, now chapters, in this volume have accomplished the initial goal of the conference to encourage decision makers to think about land in the context of a changing world. We think the conference was important and that this book is important because policy makers often do not take the time nor have the time to think either cautiously or creatively about land.