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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.