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A Systems Approach to Community Land Use Education, Planning, and Action

This paper discusses the academic and applied roots of a Land Use Toolbox that takes a systems approach to land use education, planning, and action. The toolbox recognizes crucial community sustainability elements to link ecological and sociocultural facets of local and regional land use. A matrix links stakeholder community interests with crosscutting themes such as watersheds, economic development, government, and quality of life, along with individual and community activities. Introduction: How the project came about The story we are presenting involves a meeting of research and practice, with a dose of teamwork. It grew out of an extension agent’s field experiences and reflection from 2001 to 2005, developing into a land use toolbox that takes a systems approach to education, research, organizational planning, and action. It turned into a partnership 1 Dr. Collins is assistant director of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University. Dr. Goetz is Director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development located at Penn State University. When the idea for this project emerged, Dr. Collins was a community development agent for Penn State Cooperative Extension in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The authors would like to thank members of the Penn State Cooperative Extension Community Development Team for their input into the toolbox, including Tim Kelsey, Walt Whitmer, Neal Fogel, Anita Nichols Lengvarsky, Alyssa Dodd, Charles Abdalla, Kathy Brasier, Winifred McGee, Martin Shields, Bill Shuffstall, and Lucinda Baron Robbins.