Incorporating justice, equity, and access priorities into land trusts' conservation efforts

Land trusts as a complementary solution to nature conservation system in Poland

“…The Land Trust Movement in America provides a wide-ranging description of the many issues related to land trusts that have been evident after almost a century of their operation in the United States and systematises the ways and areas of their activities. Twenty years later, we can conclude that the literature on land trusts contemplates whether they meet their objectives in protecting ecologically valuable lands (Fisher & Dills, 2012;Crain et al, 2020), whether they are organisations maintained by their members (Sundberg, 2006), and how to provide access to lands protected by land trusts (Beckman et al, 2023;Lieberknecht, 2009). In the context of land trusts, the two-way relationship between investments in area protection (the acquisition of property rights) and the charitable financing of these investments have been studied (Pinnschmidt et al, 2021) as well as social aspects regarding the emotional attitudes of those involved in land trusts (Seaman et al, 2019).…”

“…The spatial distribution of areas protected by land trusts and the impact of public sector policy on this distribution is also being explored (Fishburn et al, 2013;Thurman & Parker, 2011). Recent literature on land trusts places, among other issues, social justice themes at the centre of its research (Beckman et al, 2023;Langhans et al, 2023).…”