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Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems
A Troubled Sense of Immensity
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lresources in portions of the river and its surrounding lands....
Natural Connections
Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The mpromising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation...
Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow
Shaping The Next Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
We sit at the doorstep of multiple revolutions in robotic, genetic, information, and communication technologies, whose powerful interactions promise social and environmental transformations we are only beginning to understand. How can we anticipate their impacts and ensure that these new technologies...
Panarchy
Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Creating institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is arguably the mimportant task confronting society; it is also dauntingly complex. Ecological, economic, and social elements all play a role, but despite ongoing efforts, researchers have yet to succeed in integrating the various disciplines...
by Frederic O. Sargent, Paul Lusk, Jose Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities offers an explanation of the concept of Rural Environmental Planning (REP) along with case studies that show how to apply REP to specific issues such as preserving agricultural lands, planning river and lake basins, and preserving historical sites.
State of the World 2012
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
In the 2012 edition of its flagship report, Worldwatch celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit with a far-reaching analysis of progress toward building sustainable economies. Written in clear language with easy-to-read charts, State of the World 2012 offers a new perspective...
State of the World 2008
Innovations for a Sustainable Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Environmental issues were once regarded as irrelevant to economic activity, but today they are dramatically rewriting the rules for business, investors, and consumers. Around the world, innovative responses to climate change and other environmental problems are affecting more than $100 billion in...
The Coming Democracy
New Rules For Running A New World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
National governments are proving ill-equipped to manage an increasingly complicated suite of global problems, from infectious diseases to climate change to conflicts over international trade. In The Coming Democracy, leading political analyst Ann Florini sets forth a compelling new paradigm for transnational...
Biophilic Cities
Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Tim Beatley has long been a leader in advocating for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, emphasizing such elements as public transit, renewable energy production, and energy efficibuilding systems. While these are important aspects...
Native to Nowhere
Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Meaningful places offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of globalization and sameness that are overtaking our world, and are an essential elemin the search for solutions to currsustainability challenges. In Native to Nowhere, author Tim Beatley draws on extensive research and travel to communities...
Public Produce
The New Urban Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central governmintervention, but for local governminvolvemin shaping food policy. In what Darrin Nordahl calls “municipal agriculture,” elected officials, municipal planners, local policymakers, and public space designers are turning to...
Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods
Design for Environmand Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
Cities are growing at unprecedented rates. Mcontinue to sprawl into the countryside. Some are only now adopting policies that attempt to control air pollution from vehicles, reduce water pollution from urban runoff, and repair fragmented urban ecosystems. Can good urban design and sound environmental...
Earth in Mind
On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education.
Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human...
by Herman E. Daly, Robert Costanza, Thomas Prugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
The mdifficult questions of sustainability are not about technology; they are about values. Answers to such questions cannot be found by asking the "experts," but can only be resolved in the political arena. In The Local Politics of Global Sustainability, author Thomas Prugh, with Robert Costanza...