Sustainable Development
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Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance with Nature
by Richard Register  Publisher Comments Building Cities in Balance with Nature, a visionary book by the founder of the international Ecocity Movement....
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People, Places and Sustainability
by Gabriel Moser Publisher Comments Sustainable development involves satisfying the needs of the present generation without compromising the chances for future generations. Quality of life thus plays an important part in determining how we can achieve sustainable development. What are the...
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The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to Sustainable Practices
by Sarah James Publisher Comments Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword and cities and towns like the last places to change, but "The Natural Step for Communities" provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability and explains how...
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Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions
by Phillip Cooper Publisher Comments Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions takes a broad-based and integrative approach to exploring nation-building and reconstruction in the wake of environmentally destructive wafare....
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Economic Development and Environmental Policy
by Omar Noman Publisher Comments In this study, Omar Noman sheds light on the confusion and chaos that have marked debates on the environment and economy in developing countries, showing ad-hoc, unsystematic changes are being recommended and implemented without a clear, global objective...
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Transdisciplinarity: Recreating Integrated Knowledge
by Margaret Somerville Synopsis This book addresses the need for transdisciplinarity, a new and important approach to the solution of global problems. Transdisciplinarity provides an essential context for understanding some of the most important, complex, and difficult issues we face...
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Sustainable Planet: Roadmaps for the Twenty-first Century
by Juliet Schor Publisher Comments Americans work longer, with less vacation time, than the citizens of any other industrialized nation. And they consume more: recent scientific estimates indicate that at least four additional planets would be needed to support the earth's population if...
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Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas; Development Or Disaster?.
by C. Michael Hall And Stephen Boyd Book News Annotation For upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in tourism and related programs, an overview of nature-based tourism development in isolated alpine, forest, sub-polar, island, coastal, and marine environments, where eco-tourism, adventure tours...
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Wildlife Tourism
by David Newsome Book News Annotation Focusing on the sustainable viewing of wild animals in the wild, the text serves as an overview of wildlife tourism as a venture with the twin goals of conservation and tourism development. It covers both ecology and impacts and also practical aspects...
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Environment and Human Well-Being: A Practical Strategy (Achieving the Millenium Development Goals) Millenium Project Task Force
by Don Melnick Publisher Comments * One of 14 publications comprising the official UN strategy on how to reduce extreme poverty and achieve the fundamental worldwide human development goals for the coming decade * Project directed by Jeffrey D. Sachs, named one of the 100 most...
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Environmental Values
by John Oneil Publisher Comments We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems. We read of increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming. In everyday life people mourn the loss of valued landscapes and...
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Preserving the Legacy: Concepts in Support of Sustainability
by Allen G Noble Publisher Comments Though only a relatively recent topic of worldwide discussion and interest, the concept of sustainable development traces its origins to the late eighteenth century, when concern for resource conservation and environmental integrity first arose. From...
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Sustainability of Temperate Forests
by Roger A Sedjo Publisher Comments RFF's Roger Sedjo and his colleagues discuss initiatives designed to promote and enhance sustainable forestry in temperate countries. While concerns about tropical deforestation are considerable, temperate forests account for the vast majority of the...
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Towards Sustainable Development in Indus
by Ralph Andrew Luken Book News Annotation Seven country reports are presented on the extent to which recent changes in industrial, environmental, and technology policies have aligned industrial development with the aims of sustainable development. For each country, contributors in industrial...
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Green Production: Toward an Environmental Rationality
by Enrique Leff Publisher Comments Over the last two decades, the environmental cost of capital accumulation has emerged as a serious social and economic problem. Many are now aware that the ways we utilize our natural and cultural resources have had a range of negative consequences...
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Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable
by Simon Bell Publisher Comments Widely considered to be a foundation text in the crucial task of doing sustainability, this revised and fully updated edition of Sustainability Indicators continues to address this vital dimension. Building on the groundbreaking first edition, the...
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Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World
by W. M. Adams Publisher Comments Now in paperback, "Green Development" analyzes the evolution of the concept of "sustainable development," and assesses how this can be applied in the real world. William Adams questions the established understanding of the problems of environment and...
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Capitalism: As If the World Matters
by Jonathon Porritt Publisher Comments When first published in 2005, Capitalism as if the World Matters, by one of the leading eco-warriors of our time, shocked both a generation of environmentalists and a generation of business people by brushing aside their petty squabbles and artificial...
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Local Places: In the Age of the Global City
by Roger Keil Publisher Comments The ugly grey heap of cement and asphalt that makes up much of the urban sprawl is something most of us wish would just go away. And yet, more than half the world's population will live in urban centres by the turn of the millennium and most will be...
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Ecology of Hope (97 Edition)
by Ted Bernard
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