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Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its
impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been
greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban
sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development,
and decision-making.
Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied
interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities
that lay ahead in this area. Bringing together researchers and
practitioners to explore leading innovations on the ground, this
volume combines the theoretical underpinnings of urban
sustainability with current practices through highly readable
narrative case studies. The contributors also provide fresh
perspectives on how issues related to sustainable urban planning
and development can be reconciled through collaborative
partnerships and engagement processes.
What is a sustainable community? The pressing need to answer
thissimple question is what prompted John Pierce and Ann Dale to
gather theessays in this volume. Communities, Development, and
Sustainabilityacross Canada is a timely synthesis of work on how
Canadiancommunities can achieve sustainable development. It bridges
the gapbetween theory and praxis and brings together academics,
policy makers,and community activists, all of whom have argued for
increased localparticipation in sustainable community development.
Communities havebecome the weak link in efforts to refashion
relations between theenvironment and the economy. The goal of this
book is not simply todescribe problems but also to suggest answers,
not simply to offertheory but also to promote action, so that
Canadian communities canbetter achieve sustainable development.
Achieving Sustainable Development explores how well Canada hasmet
the Earth Summit's targets and attempts to find ways in whichthe
public can become involved in such issues. Its authors stress
theimportance of integration of information from various fields and
seekto stimulate the exchange of knowledge among the academic
community,government, non-governmental organizations and industry.
Thecontributors look far beyond merely identifying and analyzing
selectedissues and problems. To facilitate public discussion and to
affectpolicy development, at least one initiative is proposed and
detailedfor each problem identified.
Achieving Sustainable Development explores how well Canada hasmet
the Earth Summit's targets and attempts to find ways in whichthe
public can become involved in such issues. Its authors stress
theimportance of integration of information from various fields and
seekto stimulate the exchange of knowledge among the academic
community,government, non-governmental organizations and industry.
Thecontributors look far beyond merely identifying and analyzing
selectedissues and problems. To facilitate public discussion and to
affectpolicy development, at least one initiative is proposed and
detailedfor each problem identified.
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