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The sustainability challenges of yesterday have become today's resilience crises. National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Post Carbon Institute (sponsoring agency.)
Otros Autores: Lerch, Daniel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2017]
Temas:
Community development > Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Energy policy > Environmental aspects.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Développement durable.
Politique énergétique > Aspect de l'environnement.
Développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement.
sustainable development.
Environmentally-friendly architecture & design.
Central government policies.
The environment.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Daniel Lerch
  • Six foundations for building community resilience / Daniel Lerch
  • PART I. Understanding our predicament. The environmental crisis : the needs of humanity versus the limits of the planet / Leena Iyengar
  • The energy crisis : from fossil fuel abundance to renewable energy constraints / Richard Heinberg
  • The economic crisis : the limits of twentieth-century economics and growth / Joshua Farley
  • The equity crisis : the true costs of extractive capitalism / Sarah Byrnes and Chuck Collins
  • The roots of our crises : does human nature drive us toward collapse? / William Rees
  • PART II. Gathering the needed tools. Systems literacy : a toolkit for purposeful change / Howard Silverman
  • A crash course in the science of sustainability / Margaret Robertson
  • A crash course in the science of resilience / Brian Walker and David Salt
  • Pulling it all together : resilience, wisdom, and beloved community / Stephanie Mills
  • PART III. Community resilience in action. Energy democracy / Denise Fairchild and Al Weinrub
  • Building community resilience at the water's edge / Rebecca Wodder
  • Food system lessons from Vermont / Scott Sawyer
  • Learning our way toward resilience / William Throop
  • Beyond waste : sustainable consumption for community resilience / Rosemary Cooper
  • Resilient streets, resilient cities / Mike Lydon
  • Community resilience and the built environment / Daniel Lerch
  • Conclusion : where to start / Asher Miller.

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