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Governmental Conservation Easements: A Means to Advance Efficiency, Freedom from Coercion, Flexibility and Democracy

Posted 2018 Reviewed July 5, 2022
Author
Gerald Korngold
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This paper argues that the rise of private conservation easements and the critique of excessive public land use regulation militate for the increased use of consensual conservation easements by governmental entities to achieve public land preservation goals.

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