Mission Statement

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CENTER FOR LANDSCAPE INTERPRETATION

Mission Statement

The Center for Landscape Interpretation brings to each new program and project challenge extensive experience in

organizational and strategic planning,
sustainable community and environmental planning and design,
natural and cultural resource conservation, management and development.

The Center for Landscape Interpretation's Mission and professional practice is based on the premise that the future is creatable. CLI strives to empower those with whom they work to make better informed decisions as to the future of their businesses, organizations and communities. In that a community's image of the future will exert a strong influence over its current behavior CLI assists their partners and collaborators in visualizing alternative futures by illuminating current forces and trends (social, cultural, technological, economic, political, natural, etc.) that have the potential of shaping the face of the cultural landscape. Although the future is largely unpredictable and change in the cultural landscape is inevitable CLI provides area residents, private, quasi-public and public organizations/governmental entities with the necessary policy-building, program and project development tools to aggressively pursue directing the nature of change in their home environments. Development will always occur. CLI's approach provides a framework to guide growth and development, to encourage sustainable and equitable use of local and regional resources, to ensure that development

posseses qualities and values to
uplift the human spirit
improve economic well-being
enhance the quality of life
magnify a sense of place
promote community pride
strengthen neighborhood identity
stimulate adaptive growth and positive change, so as to advance civilization and elevate the human condition.

Through engaging an energized citizenry in a participatory visioning, strategic and implementation planning process CLI helps its partners explore the long-range implications of various kinds of human interactions within the landscape. Through facilitating discourse within a new membership of concern and building consensus around common needs and assets, strengths and opportunities, communities can learn how to better plan and control their urbanization in a manner that maintains the biological and historical character of their natural and cultural surroundings.

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For more information please contact Aaron Tuley or Rod Cobi at the:

Center for Landscape Interpretation
2413 Ernest Wilson Drive
Port of Greater Baton Rouge
P.O. Box 50
Port Allen, LA 70767-0050
Phone: (504) 383-0066
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