
Year: 2006
This collaborative program gives watershed planning groups across the Great Lakes the information they need to protect natural resources and enhance local economies.
For more detailed information, visit Tipping Points Planner
This collaborative program gives watershed planning groups across the Great Lakes the information they need to protect natural resources and enhance local economies.
For more detailed information, visit Tipping Points Planner
In Indiana, community leaders make decisions about public spaces such as parks, trails, farmers markets, schools, and Main Streets every day that affect the health and wellness of the community. Using Purdue Extension’s Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces: Creating Healthy Communities program, facilitators coach communities through development of a high quality action plan for their public spaces. The plan can guide decisions and better position communities to take advantage of opportunities to promote healthy eating and active living. Our Indiana-based curriculum is designed for use by decision-makers and local leaders who have oversight and management of community public spaces, such as: Parks boards and planning commission members, Public officials and their staffs, Members of organizations whose missions relate to services, programs, or management of public spaces.
Purdue Extension Publication Number ID-513.
This resource is available through Purdue Extension Community Development at: https://cdext.purdue.edu/signature-programs/quality-places/evps-health/
Purdue Extension and the Indiana Land Resources Council collaboratively developed this guidance document to support plan commission members and local government officials and staff with resources and examples to integrate agriculture and natural resources as part of community land use planning efforts for developing or updating comprehensive plans. Each document in the series provides an overview of the topic, economic development considerations, community examples, and resources to make connections for local land use planning efforts.
This item is available through Purdue Extension Community Development at https://cdext.purdue.edu/guidebook/.
This publication discusses the benefits of several agricultural best management practices for protecting or improving water quality. These BMPs are used in the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment model in the Tipping Point Planner decision support system.
It is available through the Purdue Extension Education Store at https://mdc.itap.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_Number=FNR-581-W.
This publication discusses the benefits of several urban best management practices for protecting or improving water quality. These BMPs are used in the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment model in the Tipping Point Planner decision support system.
This document is available through the Purdue Extension Education Store at https://mdc.itap.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_Number=FNR-580-W.
Through the decision support system, Tipping Point Planner (tippingpointplanner.org), communities in Great Lakes states can plan for a sustainable future by directly linking data to the local decision-making process. With help from trained facilitators, Tipping Point Planner enables professional as well as citizen participation in the land use planning and management process, including maintaining projects using a HUC 12 watershed scale. The program provides information, tools, and resources to help communities work with diverse stakeholders to:
The curriculum contains education materials and resources to support community planning for land use and natural resource management. The following curriculum chapters are available for download:
To learn more about facilitated community action planning program offerings, please visit www.purdue.edu/fnr/extension/scep/programs/tipping-point-planner
To download this resource visit the Purdue Extension EdStore at https://mdc.itap.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_Number=ID-514-TPP.
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