Umfang:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415630146
,
9781136188893
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Requiem for the growth imperative -- The historical pro-growth paradigm -- The exponential growth era -- Existent ecological limits to growth -- The inherently unsustainable nature of growth -- 2 The American community as a growth machine -- The historical pro-growth bias of American communities -- The role of local political jurisdictions as growth machines in America -- The planning profession's historical pro-growth stance -- The pro-growth orientation of the growth-management movement -- 3 Rationales and strategies for stopping growth in America's communities -- Political strategies for stopping growth -- Economic strategies for stopping growth -- Planning and regulatory strategies for stopping growth -- Legal considerations in pursuing a no-growth strategy -- 4 The no-growth path to sustainability -- The challenge of international and national growthmania -- The impediment of state growth mandates -- Beyond regionalism to bioregionalism as an organizing framework for no growth -- The role of no-growth communities in advancing sustainability -- 5 Envisioning no-growth communities -- Likely economic features of no-growth communities -- Likely social and political features of no-growth communities -- Likely physical features of no-growth communities -- Prospects for realizing sustainable, no-growth communities -- Epilogue: 10 difficult personal actions needed to save the world -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Zovanyi, Gabor The No-Growth Imperative Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415630146
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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