Sustainable Development
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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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World at Crossroads
by Philip B Smith
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In service of the wild :restoring and reinhabiting damaged land
by Stephanie Mills Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index....
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Paper Cuts
by Janet N. Abramovitz TOC Introduction -- Mapping the paper landscape -- Uncovering the real costs of paper -- Trimming consumption -- Improving the fiber supply -- Producing cleaner paper -- Designing a sustainable paper economy....
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Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability
by Robert G Bailey Publisher Comments This book completes Robert G. Bailey's celebrated study of ecoregions, begun in the landmark Ecosystem Geography (1996) and further articulated in Ecoregions (1998). In this third installment, the author expands his system for defining large-scale...
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Getting Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological Economics (International Society for Ecological Economics Series)
by Robert Costanza Publisher Comments Achieving global sustainability will require the development and integration of three elements: a shared vision of what a sustainable society is; new methods of analysis and modelling to understand and describe that vision; and new institutions and...
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Environment & Emerging Development Volume 1
by Partha Dasgupta Publisher Comments Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet "official" development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account...
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Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan: A History of Knowledge and Action Toward Sustainability (Politics, Science, and the Environment)
by Kenneth E Wilkening Publisher Comments What we can learn from the Japanese approach to the problem of acid rain: a historical study of the influence of science on policy and sustainability....
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Towards Sustainable Development in Central America and the Caribbean
by Anders Danielson Publisher Comments Since the economic decline in the early 1980s, most countries in Central America and the Caribbean have returned to positive growth rates. The recovery often coincided with or followed extensive neoliberal reforms. The contributors to this book address...
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Sharing the Planet: Population-Consumption-Species: Science and Ethics for a Sustainable and Equitable World
by Bob Van Der Zwaan Publisher Comments Because international trade drives today's political, economic, and financial infrastructures, its momentum has largely drowned out warnings about the limited resources of the planet. This book raises public awareness about these limited resources with...
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Sustainability and Cities: Concept and Assessment
by Ooi Giok Ling Publisher Comments This important book addresses issues of development and its environmental sustainability for the fastest growing areas in Asia ? its cities. Recognizing sustainability with respect to the environment and its exploitation has yet to make its impact on...
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Evaluating Sustainable Development
by Peter Brandon Publisher Comments Sustainable development has been characterised by an emphasis on environmental issues and an ad hoc approach to structuring the subject which hinders the development of knowledge in a systematic way. The built environment contributes significantly to the...
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Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production
by Roger Dower Publisher Comments The United States is the world's biggest consumer of natural resources and its biggest polluter. With the U.S. economy expected to grow by 25% in the next decade alone, the costs to Americans -- and to everyone else in the world -- will increase...
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Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development (Sustainable Community Development Series)
by Russ Beaton Publisher Comments Reuniting Ecology and Economy is part of a series on the various aspects of sustainable development, where "community" focuses on the primacy and quality of relationships among people sharing a particular place and between people and their environment...
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Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Science, Issues and Policy Options
by Mohan Munasinghe Publisher Comments Condensed, accessible review of latest state-of-the-art assessments of IPCC, within context of sustainable development....
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Responsible Growth for the New Millennium: Integrating Society, Ecology, and the Economy
by Bank World 
Publisher Comments This book contends that economic growth is essential for development, but it is not enough. It presents a vision of a responsible approach to growth--sustainable growth in consumption, healthfulness, human capital, environmental quality and social equity-...
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Tempelman, Erik
by Sustainable Transport and Advanced Materials
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Environment and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa
by Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed and Wilfred Mlay
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Quit Hogging the Road
by Olin T Gideonson
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