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Thinking Like an Island : Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawaii /

Hawaii is a rare and special place, in which beauty and isolation combine to form a vision of paradise. That isolation, though, comes at a price: resources in modern-day Hawaii are strained and expensive, and current economic models dictate that the Hawaiian Islands are reliant upon imported food, f...

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Otros Autores: Chirico, Jennifer (Editor ), Farley, Gregory S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Hawaiian culture and its foundation in sustainability / Scott Fisher -- Food security in Hawaiʻi / George Kent -- Searching for sustainable agriculture in Hawaiʻi / Penny Levin -- Lessons from the taro patch / Penny Levin -- Ecological design for island water systems / Lauren C. Roth Venu -- Saving island water: strategies for water reuse / Steve Parabicoli -- Catching the (energy) wave of the future / Luis Vega and Reza Ghorbani -- Green building: integrating the past with the future / Matthew Goyke and John Bendon -- Shades of green in the tourism sector: sustainability practices and awareness in the State of Hawaiʻi / Linda Cox and John Cusick -- Successful sustainability movements in higher education / Shanah Trevenna -- It takes a village: reflections on building an island school garden / Susan Wyche and Kirk Surry -- Epilogue: living like an island: what the world can learn from Hawaiʻi / Jennifer Chirico and Gregory S. Farley. 
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