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Is ethanol production from corn a recipe for famine? Is 'clean coal' a viable option or is it simply polluting the energy dilemma? Are genetically modified foods helpful or harmful? This volume includes 150 articles examining these and other green issues and debates.

Environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- Environmentalism. --- Sustainable living. --- Ecological living --- Green living --- Living, Sustainable --- Alternative lifestyles --- Green movement --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Greenwashing

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Regional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today's effective regional planning programs that combat America's poorly designed, sprawling development. The book analyzes dozens of regional initiatives across North America by bringing together the expertise of forty-two practitioners and academics. Regional Planning for a Sustainable America provides a practical guide to the key strategies that regional planners are using to achieve truly sustainable growth.

Sustainable living --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Regional planning --- Ecological living --- Green living --- Living, Sustainable --- Alternative lifestyles --- Environmentalism --- Green movement --- Conservation areas, Natural resources --- Protected areas --- Special districts --- Conservation of natural resources --- Environmentally sensitive areas --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Government policy --- North America --- Environmental conditions. --- Turtle Island (Continent)

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The last few decades were dominated by the urban, the digital, and the sleek as well as a notable esteem for speed and consumption. Today, a growing countermovement is advocating for a sustainable and more responsible way of dealing with our environment and bringing nature back to our cities. My Green City celebrates this turnaround as well as the way of life and creativity of the designers, artists, architects, activists, and passionate laypeople involved. The book presents inspirational projects from around the world—from urban farming initiatives and architectural visions that are changing our cities as a whole, to furniture and other everyday objects that can make our own streets and homes greener. Guerilla gardeners are decorating urban eyesores with flowers. Glamping resorts offer hip, yet environmentally friendly vacations amid beautiful landscapes. Designers are creating projects, products, and works of art that use plants in a functional or aesthetic way—or are perhaps just trying to get people to think differently.

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Spatial Resilience is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the influence of spatial variation – including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal – on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and self-organization play in generating spatial variation. Professor Cumming provides a readable introduction and a first comprehensive synthesis covering the core concepts and applications of spatial resilience to the study of social-ecological systems. The book follows a trajectory from concepts through models, methods, and case study analysis before revisiting the central problems in the further conceptual development of the field. In the process, the author ranges from the movements of lions in northern Zimbabwe to the urban jungles of Europe, and from the collapse of past societies to the social impacts of modern conflict. The many case studies and examples discussed in the book show how the concept of spatial resilience can generate valuable insights into the spatial dynamics of social-ecological systems and contribute to solving some of the most pressing problems of our time. Although it has been written primarily for students, this book will provide fascinating reading for interdisciplinary scientists at all career stages as well as for the interested public. In this engagingly crafted book Graeme Cumming provides a novel, and I believe important, synthesis of spatial aspects of the resilience of coupled ecological and social systems.  Robert D. Holt, Eminent Scholar and Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecology, University of Florida     Graeme Cumming, central in the development of resilience thinking and theory, has produced a wonderful book on spatial resilience, the first ever on this topic. The book will become a shining star, a classic in the explosion of new ideas and approaches to studying and understanding social-ecological systems. Carl Folke, Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics.                                This book is the first broad synthesis of spatial resilience in systems of humans and nature, and exposes the power of spatial approaches for interdisciplinary analyses of resilience. It is a pioneering contribution to a field that is poised for rapid expansion. Steve Carpenter, Director, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Resilience (Ecology). --- Spatial ecology. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Social ecology. --- Ecological assessment (Biology) --- Sustainable living. --- Human geography. --- Ecology, Social --- Environment, Human --- Human ecology (Social sciences) --- Human environment --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Ecological living --- Green living --- Living, Sustainable --- Biological evaluation of environmental impacts --- Ecological damage assessment (Biology) --- Life sciences. --- Ecology. --- Landscape ecology. --- Environmental management. --- Nature conservation. --- Sustainable development. --- Sociology. --- Life Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- Sustainable Development. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Nature Conservation. --- Environmental Management. --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Alternative lifestyles --- Environmentalism --- Green movement --- Applied ecology --- Environmental impact analysis --- Nature --- Ecological surveys --- Social sciences --- Effect of human beings on --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Conservation of nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Conservation --- Environmental aspects --- Ecology . --- Social theory