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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Roseland, Mark. Toward sustainable communities. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2012] (OCoLC)806125011 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Roseland |
| ISBN: | 9780865717114 0865717117 |
| OCLC Number: | 782101048 |
| Description: | xx, 363 pages : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Part 1: Sustainable communities, sustainable planet. The context for sustainable communities ; Sustainable community development ; Making community policy. -- Part 2: Sustainable community building blocks. Cultivating greener, food-secure communities ; Water and sewage ; Waste reduction and recycling ; Energy efficiency and renewables ; Transportation planning and traffic management ; Land use, urban form and community design ; Housing and community development ; Green building ; Community economic development ; Climate change ; Communities integrating sustainability. -- Part 3: Mobilizing citizens and their governments. Governing sustainable communities ; Tools for community sustainability ; The community capital tool ; Lessons and challenges. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Roseland. |
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Author Mark Roseland participated in events associated with the 2012 Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (June 20-22) and co-convened the Third International Urban Research Symposium of ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (June 14-17). While there he also unveiled the fourth edition of his now-classic book, Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments. He also launched a new online network called Pando | Sustainable Communities, created to facilitate and inspire collaboration and knowledge sharing among researchers, practitioners and government decision-makers. Its goal is to spark local initiatives that will cultivate vibrant, caring, livable and economically resilient communities. When I wrote the first edition of Towards Sustainable Communities in 1992, the first Rio Earth Summit had just happened and the kinds of initiatives I profiled were relatively rare, says Roseland. While drafting this edition, it became clear that innovations for sustainable communities are now happening so quickly that one book cant begin to cover them all. His Pando network concept developed as a logical outgrowth of his book, which showcases hundreds of proven, adaptable initiatives already making communities of all sizes more sustainable. In addition to my books case, theory and method for building more sustainable communities, it became clear that we could benefit from an accessible, live platform to share great ideas. And we should do more than offer a collection of great strategies we need to connect the creative thinkers and doers behind them. Pando will meet that need. Read more...

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