Environment

eConference: Planning Healthy and Child-Friendly Communities

Description: 
This eConference brings together outstanding leaders, expert professionals and scholars renowned for their breadth of vision and depth of experience. Audio presentations, transcripts of keynote speeches, slides, and papers presented at the 48th IMCL Conference are now available online. This is an invaluable resource for your city, firm or university - insightful strategies, knowledge, and tools to guide healthy and child-friendly planning policies.
Start Date: 
02/25/2011
End Date: 
05/31/2011
Date Description: 
eConference: Planning Healthy and Child-Friendly Communities

Community Toolbox

This innovative and useful toolbox contains numerous techniques for public participation that communities can use to get organized, to turn their vision into a reality, and to work together to improve their parks, rivers, open spaces and special places.

Economic Benefits of Trails and Greenways

Trails and greenways have economic, as well as recreational and health benefits. Both stimulate tourism and recreation-related spending, and have positive impacts on quality of life. This report identifies the numerous economic benefits of trails and greenways in the US.

LGEAN Toolbox

A web-based resource to assist local government officials in their efforts to protect the environment and public health. A collection of tools are designed to help users perform operations and calculations necessary to fulfill environmental reporting requirements or guide the development of a helpful environmental program.

Smart Growth America

Smart Growth America is a nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow: one that protects open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, and provides more transportation choices.

The CPTED Page

The CPTED Page was created as a means to perennially provide access to information relating to crime prevention through environmental design.

Community Capacity Development Office

This site provides a variety of information and tools including the federal "Weed and Seed" program as well as a variety of other technical assistance and funding resources.
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