Ohio People and Land

Ohio People and Land

Resources on Regionalism

Ohio People and Land (OPAL) Citizen Distance Education Website will assist Ohio citizens understand the informational background and scientific basis for choices available for land use and stewardship.   


Presentations are available here for download:

  • click here to download a presentation "Opportunities, Challenges, and Competitive Advantages of Planning and Working Regionally"  -- given by Joe Konen to the County Commissioners Days in August, 2006: 
  • Click here to download a copy of " The Wealth of Cities: Towards an Assets-based Development of Newly Urbanizing Regions," the UN-Habitat Award Lecture given by John Friedmann at the WorldURban Fourum in Vancouver, BC,  June 19-23, 2006
  • Click here to download a presentation (pdf 1,145Kb) "Competitive Advantages of
    Regional Planning or Regionalism – A Strategy for Local Success"
    given at the Jeenifer McSweeny Land Use Conference on March 31, 2006  by Joseph H.Konen, Urban Programs Specislist at the OSU Extension Center at Wooster.
  • Click here to download (pdf 1,664Kb) the presentation "Investing Regional Capitals for a Sustainable Region" given at the Regional Sustainability Forum on October 28, 2006 by Cornelia Butler Flora, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology, Iowa State University Director, North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
  • Click here to download (pdf file 4, 239 Kb) the REPORT OF THE STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S COMMUNITIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
    JULY 2005.

 

  • Click here to download a presentation (pdf file 4,004 Kb) "A New Mandate for the Extension Service," by Mark Drabenstott, Center for the Study of Rural America, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City given at the OSU Extension Conference on Regionalism (July 18, 2005)
  • Click here to download a presentation (pdf file 203 Kb) "Purdue's Center for Regional Development: A Recent Case Study of Birthing" by Sam Cordes, Co-Director, Center for Regional Development and Assistant Director, Purdue Cooperative Extension given at the OSU Extension Conference on Regionalism (July 18, 2005)
  • Click here to download the presentation given to the Regional Sustainability Forum   (6/24/05) by Ed Morrison (pdf file: 1869 KB)    *if you use any of his material, be sure to credit Ed as the source... his instructions for that appear near the end of the presentation
  • Click Here to download the Powerpoint Presentation, "Dense Development – A Regional Opportunity," (PowerPoint file:  3620 Kb) a presentation by Joe Konen from the OSU Extension Center at Wooster given on May 30, 2005.
  • Click Here  to view:  "Regional Ohio," a discussion of various approaches to the regions in Ohio prepared by Joe Konen of the OSU Extension Center at Wooster.
  • Click here to see presentations on regionalism by john powell of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University.  These include a focus on Ohio, on equity, and on various characteristics and types of regionalism.
  • Click here to download "Regional Groups - NEO" (pdf file: 214 Kb) with the names, descriptions, and contact information for a variety of groups that focus on sustainability issues in Northeast Ohio prepared by Joe Konen of the OSU Extension Center at Wooster.

 

Revised 3-20-07