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State of the World 2004
Special Focus: The Consumer Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
With chapters on food, water, energy, the politics of consumption and redefining the good life, Worldwatch’s award-winning research team asks whether a less-consumptive society is possible—and then argues that it is essential.
State of the World 2005
Redefining Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In State of the World 2005, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, and rising competition over oil and other resources. Find out why terrorism is just symptomatic of a far broader set of complex problems that require more than a military response.
Defying Ocean's End
An Agenda For Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
If humankind were given a mandate to do everything in our power to undermine the earth's functioning, we could hardly do a better job than we have in the past thirty years on the world's oceans, both by what we are putting into it-millions of tons of trash and toxic materials-and by what we are taking...
by Patrick M. Condon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
A step-by-step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies, Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design decisions and create more green, clean, and equitable communities.
The design charrette has become...
Old Growth in a New World
A Pacific Northwest Icon Reexamined
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Old-growth forests represa lofty ideal as much as an ecosystem—an icon of unspoiled nature, ecological stability, and pristine habitat. These iconic notions have actively altered the way society relates to old-growth forests, catalyzing major changes in policy and management. But how appropriate...
by Story Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Finally, a comprehensive book on land conservation financing for community and regional conservation leaders. A Field Guide to Conservation Finance provides essential advice on how to tackle the universal obstacle to protecting private land in America: lack of money. Story Clark dispels the myths...
Green Urbanism
Learning From European Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
As the need to confront unplanned growth increases, planners and policymakers scramble for practical tools and examples of successful and workable approaches. Growth manageminitiatives are underway in the US, but many American "success stories" provide only one piece of the puzzle. To find examples...
Building for Life
Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Sustainable design has made great strides in recyears; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model...
Community Planning
An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This book introduces community planning as practiced in the United States, focusing on the comprehensive plan. Sometimes known by other names—especially master plan or general plan—the type of plan described here is the predominant form of general governmental planning in the U.S. Although many...
The Heart of the City
Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future. If we are to have healthy downtowns, we need to understand what downtown is all about; how and why...
Parks and Carrying Capacity
Commons Without Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
How much can we use the environmwithout spoiling what we find so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is a perennial question whose urgency grows each year as the number of visits continues to increase. Parks and Carrying Capacity represents a comprehensive...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Edward O. Wilson – University Professor at Harvard, winner of two Pulitzer prizes, eloquent champion of biodiversity – is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His career represents both a blueprint and a challenge to those who seek to explore the frontiers of scientific...
A Better Way to Zone
Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L. Elliott, however, zoning often discourages the very developmthat bigger cities need and want. In fact, Elliott thinks that zoning has become so complex that it is often dysfunctional and in desperate need...
by Robert A. Mello
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Here is a vitally important book for anyone who is concerned with acid rain and the fate of our forests. In his fascinating investigation into the decline of the red spruce on Camel Hump in Vermont, Robert A. Mello explores an ecological mystery. He presents, in clear, concise, non-technical language,...