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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

According to the National Land Bank Networks 2023 State of Land Banking Survey, vacant lots account for 86 percent of all land bank properties and half of all survey respondents listed vacant land stewardship as one of their top priorities. the group called out community, stewardship, legacy, values, collaboration.

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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. Work proceeding on remediating the Morgantown Ordinance Works. Photo courtesy of WVLSC.

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Want to know if your data are managed responsibly? Here are 15 questions to help you find out

GCN

COMMENTARY | Responsible data stewardship must take many factors into account including legal requirements, data governance, cybersecurity and user privacy.

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Islands innovating to future-proof water resources

AWS Public Sector Blog

For example, in the Balearic Islands tourism accounts for more than 44.2% While agriculture accounts for 70% of all freshwater globally, withdrawals compared to 20% for industry and 10% for municipal and domestic use. of the regional GDP and nearly a third of local jobs.

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CFP: Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations - Virtual Conference, March 8-9, 2023

A Library Writer's Blog

Collectors are increasingly willing to confront processes of repatriation, reparation and restitution, and other forms of deaccessioning, and vocabularies of ownership are giving way to those of stewardship, custody, and post-custody.

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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

Anyone interested in exploring the data can access it and use it without needing an AWS account. Second runner-up: Indigenous Stewardship and Tech to Reduce Wildfires. Datasets hosted through the ASDI catalog are owned and maintained by the original data provider or a data broker. Learn more about the project here.

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CFP: Journal of Advancement, Communication, and Development in Academic Libraries #OpenAccess

A Library Writer's Blog

Stewardship Showcase Section —Share an update or valuable stewardship strategy you have put in place. A user account must be created to submit an article or section item for review. Once logged into the user account, upload the submission file (Microsoft Word DOCX or DOC). Tell us all about it. Let us know.