Sustainability Is Not Automatic: New Model Reveals Local Successes and Regional Barriers

Sustainability is not automatic: New model reveals local successes and regional barriers

Whether a region manages its land sustainably cannot be measured by land-use change alone. Sustainability is a delicate balance: it must be ecologically sound, legally secure and socially just. Yet capturing this interplay in practice has proven difficult. A research team from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá has developed a model to understand the complexity of sustainable land use.

New study reveals how land use affects solar permitting timelines in California

Research from the Nature Conservancy and ECOnorthwest reveals that project siting is the dominant factor in the length of the permitting process in California, giving state policymakers an opportunity to enact reforms to align interconnection, permitting and project development processes.