The Land Design Institute (LDI) seeks to be the regional clearinghouse for sustainable and regenerative land decisions, and for helping people understand the interrelationship of land resources and human decisions. This includes the development of an integrated Statewide GIS database and methodologies for extending this database to address issues of sustainability and regeneration of the land-based resource. The LDI is developing research proposals for the integration of remote sensed data into this database, and integrating remotely sensed data into decision-making processes for promoting community sustainability.
As regional clearinghouse of sustainable and regenerative land based decision making, the LDI can enhance the University’s service to communities seeking to manage their resources in a sustainable manner. It can solidify Ball State’s leadership in sustainable and regenerative land based decision making. It can help public schools address the land based dimensions of their advanced science curricula, and help communities make decisions that sustain long term efficiency and viability, and their ecological and cultural land based resources. It can help connect the professional planning and design communities to decisions that sustain the land resource.