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Planning for Sustainability : Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities.
How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for mor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Planning for Sustainability : |b Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities. |
| 250 | |a 2nd ed. | ||
| 260 | |a Hoboken : |b Taylor and Francis, |c 2013. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (418 pages) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; BOXES; FIGURES; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Introduction; The need for change; A new era of sustainability planning; Levels of government and scales of planning; Recent trends in planning and design; Part One: The nature of sustainability planning; 2 Sustainable development; Roots of the concept; Definitions and perspectives; Modernist, postmodernist, and ecological worldviews; The role of values and institutions; 3 Theory of sustainability planning; Elements of the sustainability planning approach. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Past perspectives on planningSituating sustainability planning within planning theory; 4 Sustainability planning and the "Three Es"; Sustainability and the environment; Sustainability and economics; Sustainability and equity; 5 Sustainability planning in practice; Understanding context; Establishing priorities; Thinking strategically; Working collaboratively; Evaluating progress; Pushing the envelope; 6 Tools for sustainability planning; Planning processes; Sustainability indicators; Standards, benchmarks, and green rating systems; Ecological footprint analysis; Carbon calculators. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a GIS and mappingEnvironmental assessment and reporting; Institutions and policy mechanisms; Education, communication, and consensus-building; Organizing and coalition-building; Part Two: Issues central to sustainability planning; 7 Climate change planning; The framework of climate planning; Mitigation: reducing emissions; Adaptation: living with change; The challenge of changing behavior; 8 Energy and materials use; Sustainable energy use; Sustainable materials use; Lifestyle change; 9 Environmental planning; Environmental protection; Environmental restoration; Environmental education. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 10 Land use and urban growthThe compact city model; Urban form values; Tools for managing growth; The challenge of infill; 11 Urban design; Urban design values; Ecological design; 12 Transportation; Modes of travel; Land use; Pricing; Rethinking mobility; 13 Housing, food, and health; Housing; Food systems; Healthy environments; 14 Green architecture and building; Zero-net-energy buildings; Green building materials; Use of natural forms, flows, and materials; Green building programs and standards; Meeting social needs at the building scale; 15 Social equity and environmental justice. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a A just sustainabilityEnvironmental justice; Climate justice; 16 Economic development; Rethinking the growth economy; A local and regional focus; Public control of capitalism; 17 Population; IPAT revisited; A sustainable level; Planning to stabilize population; 18 Governance and social ecology; Functional democracy; Vision; Public understanding and participation; Part Three: Scales of planning; 19 International planning; Who plans at an international scale?; International planning issues; Sustainability issues in industrialized vs. less-developed countries; 20 National planning. | |
| 500 | |a Who plans at a national scale? | ||
| 520 | |a How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable cities and towns might be created, how local ecosystems can be restored, how social inequalities might be reduced, how greenhouse gas emissions might be lowered, and how more. | ||
| 590 | |a ProQuest Ebook Central |b Ebook Central Academic Complete | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a City planning. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Community development, Urban. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Regional planning. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Urbanization |x Environmental aspects. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Développement communautaire urbain. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Aménagement du territoire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Urbanisation |x Aspect de l'environnement. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a regional planning. |2 aat | |
| 650 | 7 | |a City planning |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Community development, Urban |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Regional planning |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Urbanization |x Environmental aspects |2 fast | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Wheeler, Stephen M. |t Planning for Sustainability : Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities. |d Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 |z 9780415809887 |
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