Books > Earth & environment > The environment
|
Buy Now
Sustainability for the 21st Century - Pathways, Programs, and Policies (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Loot Price: R4,859
Discovery Miles 48 590
|
|
Sustainability for the 21st Century - Pathways, Programs, and Policies (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
There is an understandable tendency these days to be pessimistic
about the future. To be sure, a planet of 10 Billion or more, with
signs of serous climate change, severely constrained availability
of water and food, and limited success tackling global poverty, to
name a few, are not trends that inspire confidence. As the planet
continues its high-speed charge towards urbanization, it remains to
be seen whether this new global era will usher in an expanded
capacity for solving these many challenges, or simply exacerbate
them and make them intractable. Thus, how cities and urban life are
designed and planned may be the single most important task ahead.
The book you are about to read, and the insights, knowledge, and
case examples it offers, will help steer the way. It posits that
sustainability needs to be the ultimate goal for everything we do
from here on; that it is no longer something optional, no longer
simply lofty language but an essential lens and metric against
which we must judge how well we are doing. You will need the depth
of understanding and knowledge the editors and chapter authors so
expertly provide here, but you will also need to be inspired, to be
hopeful, and optimistic that your work in the future can make a
discernible and significant difference.There has been a broadening
of the city planning agenda and an increasing recognition that
cities must consider many different challenges immediately and
sustainably that is also helpful. Along with sustainability, there
is a suite of complementary words that now make up the language of
planners, urban designers, and managers. Resilience has emerged as
one such potent word and an aspiration in a world where disasters
such as Hurricane Sandy will become more common and cities will
become first responders in periods of drought, heat waves, and
disease outbreaks. The news is good here, as foundations like the
Rockefeller Foundation with its 100 Resilient Cities Initiative are
significantly elevating the profile and importance of resilience,
and the tools available for advancing urban resilience, and cities,
from New York to Rotterdam to Dhaka, are re-thinking the ways in
which they occupy and inhabit their space. This suggests that these
new adaptive strategies and, more profoundly, new modes of adaptive
urban life will provide the means and confidence to meet 21st
Century challenges head on. —Timothy Beatley, University of
Virginia
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.