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America's most sustainable cities and regions : surviving the 21st century megatrends / John W. Day, Charles Hall ; with contributions by Eric Roy, Matthew Moerschbaecher, Christopher D'Elia, David Pimentel, Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia.
Lippincott Library HC110.E5 D39 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, John W., 1945- author.
- Hall, Charles A. S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development--United States.
- Sustainable development.
- United States.
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 348 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Manifest Destiny and the Growth of America: Cheap Energy and Spending Natural Capital
- The Myth of Urban Self Sufficiency
- A Tale of Twelve Cities and Ten Regions
- The Wealth of Nature is the Wealth of Nations: Ecosystem Services and Their Value to Society
- Global Climate Change: A Warmer and More Unpredictable Future
- Energy
- The Master Resource
- Feeding America's Cities: Putting Food on the Table in the 21st Century
- Moving Away From a Ptolemic View of the Human Economy
- Revisiting the Cities and Regions
- Summing It Up: Alternative Routes for the Way Forward. .
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781493932429
- 149393242X
- OCLC:
- 945369287
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