Gabor Zovanyi

The No-Growth Imperative

Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The No Growth Imperative provides rationales and strategies for ending inherently unsustainable economic and urban practices within local jurisdictions. It describes the social, political, economic, and physical features of the sustainable communities envisioned for bringing about this shift. The book concludes with an examination of current movements which indicate that prospects for realizing sustainable, no-growth communities are far more likely than might initially be imagined. The book's focus on community options for stopping untenable growth in local settings, via the implementation of a no-growth imperative, offers a new path to sustainability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415630146
• ISBN-10: 0415630142
• Artikelnr.: 36126627

Autorenporträt

Gabor Zovanyi is a Professor of Urban Planning at Eastern Washington University, USA. He has degrees from UCLA, San Diego State University, and the University of Washington. With research specializations in growth management, sustainable communities, and land-use law he is also the author of Growth Management for a Sustainable Future.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Requiem for the Growth Imperative 2. The American Community as a
Growth Machine 3. Rationales and Strategies for Stopping Growth in
America's Communities 4. The No-Growth Path to Sustainability 5.
Envisioning No-Growth Communities Epilogue: Ten Difficult Personal Actions
Needed to Save the World