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The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability (Hardcover, New)
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The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability (Hardcover, New)
Series: Anthem Environmental Studies
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This book responds to the some of the twenty-first century's most
assuming problems of our times: global warming, sub-national
terrorism, natural resource depletion, and economic, environmental
and financial crises. It finds short- and long-term solutions to
these global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for
introducing sustainability around the world. Beginning with an
outline of a robust strategy of sustainable cities-or sustainable
city-regions-that has emerged out of over two-and-a-half decades of
theoretical and practical work, the authors show why these
portentous problems can best be addressed at the local-regional
scale. In the process, this book cuts through the received wisdom
and popular misunderstandings about sustainability and peels away
the conceptual fog and ideological confusion about the meaning of
sustainability. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in North America,
Europe and Asia, the authors examine both strong and weak examples
of sustainable city approaches that validate their distinctive
urban sustainability strategy. They discover keen insights and
important lessons in these case studies for sustainability practice
across the globe, whether in small towns in the US and Canada,
large cities in Europe or tiny Chinese villages in Asia. Their
concluding chapter argues that only the road less travelled holds
real promise of creating sustainable city-regions around the world
guided by the toolkit of ecological and technological conviviality.
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