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Richard S. Booth: Confronting Climate Change — Lessons From the Adirondacks

Implementing carefully designed controls on land use activities can reduce the emission of atmospheric gases that are affecting the globe's climate and moderate the effects of climate change on our communities. Local governments make most land use decisions in the United States. Consequently, it is very difficult to effect large-scale change in how we manage land. A state government's implementation of land use controls across large regions may significantly help limit land use choices that exacerbate this crisis. New York State's (NYS) efforts over the past half-century (and more) to protect land resources in its six-million-acre Adirondack Park offer important lessons for confronting the climate change crisis. The Adirondack Park is unique. NYS owns almost half of it, while the remainder is nearly all privately owned, and the Park's huge, rugged landscape encompasses numerous small communities. Three sets of Adirondack lessons relative to climate change are important. The first two flow from NYS's institutional choices regarding the Park's management and the environmental protection mechanisms the state has created to protect the Park's resources. These more specific lessons generate a series of overarching lessons about managing land resources across a large region. Visit our website for more information related to this event: https://aap.cornell.edu/events/lectur...