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Ordinary people, community leaders, and even organizations and
corporations still do not fully comprehend the interconnected, "big
picture" dynamics of sustainability theory and action. In exploring
means to become more sustainable, individuals and groups need a
reference in which to frame discussions so they will be relevant,
educational, and successful when implemented. This book puts ideas
on sustainable communities into a conceptual framework that will
promote striking, transformational effects on decision-making. In
this book practitioners and community leaders will find effective,
comprehensive tools and resources at their finger-tips to
facilitate sustainable community development (SCD). The book
content examines a diverse range of SCD methods; assessing
community needs and resources; creating community visions;
promoting stakeholder interest and participation; analyzing
community problems; designing and facilitating strategic planning;
carrying out interventions to improve
Ordinary people, community leaders, and even organizations and
corporations still do not fully comprehend the interconnected, "big
picture" dynamics of sustainability theory and action. In exploring
means to become more sustainable, individuals and groups need a
reference in which to frame discussions so they will be relevant,
educational, and successful when implemented. This book puts ideas
on sustainable communities into a conceptual framework that will
promote striking, transformational effects on decision-making. In
this book practitioners and community leaders will find effective,
comprehensive tools and resources at their finger-tips to
facilitate sustainable community development (SCD). The book
content examines a diverse range of SCD methods; assessing
community needs and resources; creating community visions;
promoting stakeholder interest and participation; analyzing
community problems; designing and facilitating strategic planning;
carrying out interventions to improve
Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem reports the temporal
and spatial variation of both the living and nonliving resources of
the south Texas outer continental shelf. As the last major study to
have been conducted before the Ixtoc oil spill, it is of great
importance as a record of the baseline conditions and ecosystem
characteristics for both biologists and chemists studying the
effects of the Campeche disaster on the marine environment. The
book is the culmination of three years of field studies conducted
for the Bureau of Land Management and contains information on the
climatology, hydrology, and sedimentology of the region as well as
data on the pelagic and benthic biota, environmental hydrocarbons
and trace metals, and the microbiology of the area. In addition to
the ecosystem description, the data are integrated to expose
ecological relationships that exist and to identify those specific
variables which are most important for the assessment and
management of environmentally damaging impacts to the area.
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