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Connected to place : regenerating nature, communities, and local economies through systems change / Matt Biggar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biggar, Matt, 1970- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development--United States.
- Community development.
- Social systems--Growth.
- Social systems.
- Quality of life--United States.
- Quality of life.
- Social change--United States.
- Social change.
- Social problems--United States.
- Social problems.
- Place attachment--United States.
- Place attachment.
- Common good.
- Social ecology--United States.
- Social ecology.
- Human ecology--United States.
- Human ecology.
- Sustainable development--United States.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "This book demonstrates how place-based systems change can turn the tide on our mounting environmental and social crises by reorienting people's lives around the places where they live. This book provides a practical guide to creating the conditions necessary for regeneration and improving people's lives in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Changing how we live
- Place-based systems, well-being, and regeneration
- The path to place-based systems change
- Housing
- Local business and work
- Transportation
- Community spaces
- Nature spaces
- Food
- Building energy
- Consumer goods
- Strategic collaboration
- Systems-oriented government
- Place-based education
- Personal change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 22, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Biggar, Matt, 1970- Connected to place
- ISBN:
- 9781501784002
- 1501784005
- 9781501784019
- 1501784013
- OCLC:
- 1528569075
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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