Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Water Planning DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Alternative growth management techniques
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Water Planning DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
New Castle County, Delaware, 208 Areawide Waste Treatment Management Program : Alternative Growth Management Techniques
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Water Planning DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Castle County (Del.)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Growth Management for a Sustainable Future
Author: Gabor ZovanyiPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Previous books on growth management in the United States favor balanced growth, which suggests that growth and environmental protection represent equally legitimate objectives. Taking issue with the balanced growth position, this book argues that further growth is unsustainable and that growth management must focus on ensuring ecological sustainability. The book opens with the arguments supporting current global limits to growth, and then shows that the growth management movement in the United States represents an institutionalized form of ongoing growth accommodation, which is incongruous with sustainable behavior. The book also documents the historical pro-growth tendency of the planning profession and contends that this bias is impeding the necessary transition to a sustainable future. In addition, it presents the standards courts use to decide the legality of growth management programs and suggests that those standards do not present insurmountable obstacles to stopping future growth. In conclusion, this book presents operational measures of ecological sustainability and argues that the growth imperative currently driving the growth management movement must be replaced by the imperative of ecological sustainability.
Allegheny National Forest (N.F.), Martin Run
Author: Growth Management Plan
Author: From Sprawl to Sustainability
Author: Robert H. FreilichPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781604428124
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Rev. ed. of: From sprawl to smart growth.
Coping With Rapid Growth In Rural Communities
Author: Bruce A. WeberPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429716796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book integrates the most current research findings on the economic, demographic, fiscal, and social consequences of rapid growth in rural communities and offers strategies that can be used to mitigate the often disruptive impact of that growth. While working extensively with government officials and citizens in rural communities, Drs. Weber and Howell became aware of the need for a compilation and synthesis of the research on rural growth; they subsequently invited scholars working in selected topic areas to contribute to that effort. The resulting papers were refined during a meeting sponsored by the Western Rural Development Center, edited, and brought together in this volume. Incorporating 1980 census data, the book outlines the spectrum of changes associated with rapid growth in rural areas, presents specific options for managing rapid growth, and suggests a model that communities can use for impact assessment and for monitoring the effectiveness of various management strategies.
Annotated Bibliography for Water Quality Management
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Water Planning DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
New Visions for Metropolitan America
Author: Anthony DownsPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780815719250
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This text provides a considered proposal to restructure the land-use pattern that prevails in most American metropolitan areas. It is intended for students studying urban issues.
The New Localism
Author: Bruce KatzPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815731655
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work. In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges. Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation. This new locus of power—this new localism—is emerging by necessity to solve the grand challenges characteristic of modern societies: economic competitiveness, social inclusion and opportunity; a renewed public life; the challenge of diversity; and the imperative of environmental sustainability. Where rising populism on the right and the left exploits the grievances of those left behind in the global economy, new localism has developed as a mechanism to address them head on. New localism is not a replacement for the vital roles federal governments play; it is the ideal complement to an effective federal government, and, currently, an urgently needed remedy for national dysfunction. In The New Localism, Katz and Nowak tell the stories of the cities that are on the vanguard of problem solving. Pittsburgh is catalyzing inclusive growth by inventing and deploying new industries and technologies. Indianapolis is governing its city and metropolis through a network of public, private and civic leaders. Copenhagen is using publicly owned assets like their waterfront to spur large scale redevelopment and finance infrastructure from land sales. Out of these stories emerge new norms of growth, governance, and finance and a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive society. Katz and Nowak imagine a world in which urban institutions finance the future through smart investments in innovation, infrastructure and children and urban intermediaries take solutions created in one city and adapt and tailor them to other cities with speed and precision. As Katz and Nowak show us in The New Localism, “Power now belongs to the problem solvers.”