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The No-Growth Imperative : Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth.
More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth progra...
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| 520 | |a More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge confronting us now is one of replacing the current growth imperative with a no-growth imperative. Gabor Zovanyi asserts that anything less than stopping growth would merely slow today's. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Requiem for the growth imperative -- The historical pro-growth paradigm -- The exponential growth era -- Existent ecological limits to growth -- The inherently unsustainable nature of growth -- 2 The American community as a growth machine -- The historical pro-growth bias of American communities -- The role of local political jurisdictions as growth machines in America -- The planning profession's historical pro-growth stance -- The pro-growth orientation of the growth-management movement -- 3 Rationales and strategies for stopping growth in America's communities -- Political strategies for stopping growth -- Economic strategies for stopping growth -- Planning and regulatory strategies for stopping growth -- Legal considerations in pursuing a no-growth strategy -- 4 The no-growth path to sustainability -- The challenge of international and national growthmania -- The impediment of state growth mandates -- Beyond regionalism to bioregionalism as an organizing framework for no growth -- The role of no-growth communities in advancing sustainability -- 5 Envisioning no-growth communities -- Likely economic features of no-growth communities -- Likely social and political features of no-growth communities -- Likely physical features of no-growth communities -- Prospects for realizing sustainable, no-growth communities -- Epilogue: 10 difficult personal actions needed to save the world -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index. | |
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