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  • Community Vision and Leadership in Practice
    Chris Maser / Holly V. Campbell
    This book is about building and maintaining involved, sustainable, and inclusive communities from the ground up during a period of global change. It explains the concepts and principles of community and sustainability and provides students with a framework of sustainable community planning to put into practice in communities everywhere. ...
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    91,18 €

  • Social-Environmental Planning
    Chris Maser
    Based on the author’s 40 years of experience, this book discusses the sustainability of the planet and its population when dealing with climate change. It focuses on community-based solutions and emphasizes how the heavy lifting of sustainability will always be done inside existing cities and communities. The author suggests that before changes ...
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    91,74 €

  • Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment
    Chris Maser
    Increasingly, social-environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. Facing complex interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, policy makers and managers need a systemic approach to decision making. Replacing the dysfunctional, symptomatic thinking that has plunged the ...
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    98,68 €

  • Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development
    Chris Maser / Jane Silberstein M.A. / M.A. Silberstein
    Society’s understanding of sustainability has evolved, along with that the language that most clearly conveys its meaning. Efforts toward social-environmental sustainability have become more urgent with an increased research focus on systems-based innovation, and noteworthy legislation. This new edition captures the most current success stories ...
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    91,96 €

  • Sustainability and the Rights of Nature
    Cameron La Follette / Chris Maser
    Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability. The authors advocate building a ...
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    129,38 €

  • Economics and Ecology
    Charles R. Beaton / Chris Maser
    This timely reference discusses the problems of environmental and economic crises and explains how they are the product of the overextension of resources. The book critiques the standard approach of economics and establishes the methodological and biophysical principles needed to develop the concept of socioeconomic sustainability. ...
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    155,90 €

  • Evaluating Sustainable Development
    Chris Maser / Okechukwu Ukaga
    This book presents the principles and the tools for participatory evaluation of sustainable development--growth that does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs. ...
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    61,19 €

  • Forest Certification in Sustainable Development
    Chris Maser / Walter Smith
    From recycled products to organic food, 'environmentally friendly' is moving into the mainstream, including the forest industry. Retailers such as Home Depot have revised their purchasing and selling policies to give preference to certified wood. Forest Certification in Sustainable Development highlights the history, importance, and rewards of forest certification. The book dis...
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    303,16 €

  • Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development
    Charles R. Beaton / Chris Maser
    The link between economics and ecology and the immense potential of that connection to influence the process of change within communities is the focus of this book. The authors theorize that in a healthy, future-oriented community there is a dominant role for sustainability. Economics, ecology, community, and sustainability are intimidating on their own. There have been volumes...
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    75,21 €