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This book responds to the some of the twenty-first century's most assuming problems of our times: global warming, sub-national terrorism, natural resource depletion, and economic, environmental and financial crises. It finds short- and long-term solutions to these global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for introducing sustainability around the world. Beginning with an outline of a robust strategy of sustainable cities-or sustainable city-regions-that has emerged out of over two-and-a-half decades of theoretical and practical work, the authors show why these portentous problems can best be addressed at the local-regional scale. In the process, this book cuts through the received wisdom and popular misunderstandings about sustainability and peels away the conceptual fog and ideological confusion about the meaning of sustainability. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in North America, Europe and Asia, the authors examine both strong and weak examples of sustainable city approaches that validate their distinctive urban sustainability strategy. They discover keen insights and important lessons in these case studies for sustainability practice across the globe, whether in small towns in the US and Canada, large cities in Europe or tiny Chinese villages in Asia. Their concluding chapter argues that only the road less travelled holds real promise of creating sustainable city-regions around the world guided by the toolkit of ecological and technological conviviality.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Sustainability

• Celý názov: City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability
• Autor: Ernest J. Yanarella, Richard S. Levine
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 318
• EAN: 9780857287724
• ISBN: 0857287729
• ID: 04742343
• Nakladateľ: Anthem Press
• Hmotnosť: 648 g
• Rozmery: 161 × 236 × 26 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. September 2011

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