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Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development, Second Edition
Series: Social Environmental Sustainability
Society’s understanding of sustainability has evolved, along with that the language that most clearly conveys its meaning. Efforts toward social-environmental sustainability have become more urgent with an increased research focus on systems-based innovation, and noteworthy legislation. This new...
To Be Published November 4th 2013 by CRC Press
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Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment
A Systemic Approach
Series: Social Environmental Sustainability
Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, the game is at once a measure of complexity, uncertainty, interdisciplinary acuity, social-environmental sustainability,...
Published July 25th 2012 by CRC Press
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Economics and Ecology
United for a Sustainable World
Series: Social Environmental Sustainability
The earth, our home, is in crisis. There are two sides to this crisis—our global economy, and its effect on the ecology of our home planet. Despite conventional thinking that typical monetary and fiscal manipulations will put us back on the path of economic growth, the reality is not that simple....
Published August 4th 2011 by CRC Press
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Resolving Environmental Conflicts, Second Edition
Series: Social Environmental Sustainability
True progress toward an ecologically sound environment and a socially just culture will be initially expensive in money and effort. The longer we wait, however, the more disastrous the environmental condition will become, the more disputes will arise as a result of our declining quality of life,...
Published July 11th 2011 by CRC Press
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Sustainable Development
Principles, Frameworks, and Case Studies
Series: Social Environmental Sustainability
Coined in the 1970s, the term sustainable development and the ideas behind it have enjoyed varying amounts of popularity over the years. And while dire predictions abound, the full impacts of global warming are not known, nor can they be known. What we do know is that to be sustainable, all...
Published January 6th 2010 by CRC Press
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Social-Environmental Planning
The Design Interface Between Everyforest and Everycity
Series: Social Environmental Sustainability
With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level. Written by Chris Maser, international consultant on forest ecology, sustainable forestry practices, and sustainable...
Published September 21st 2009 by CRC Press
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Forest Certification in Sustainable Development
Healing the Landscape
From recycled products to organic food, the movement to be "environmentally friendly" is now expanding into the forestry field. Recognizing this impact, Home Depot has committed to giving preference to selling "certified wood," proven to come from forests that meet certain biological and social...
Published September 26th 2000 by CRC Press
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Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development
Series: Social Environmental Sustainability
Is the doomsday scenario inevitable? With our increasingly diminishing natural habitat and other natural resources, it seems that we are headed in that direction. After centuries of patchwork land planning, out-of-scale development and cookbook methods, it is clear that we need a better way....
Published June 26th 2000 by CRC Press
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Ecological Diversity in Sustainable Development
The Vital and Forgotten Dimension
Series: Sustainable Community Development
Our world is filled with unseen wonders - the most phenomenal of which is the often hidden beauty of the diversity that surrounds us. Apart from the beauty diversity brings to our lives, it is also absolutely necessary to the sustainability of life itself. The importance of diversity is overlooked...
Published May 3rd 1999 by CRC Press
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Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development
Series: Sustainable Community Development
Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development 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. "Development"...
Published March 15th 1999 by CRC Press