America's most sustainable cities and regions

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 Cha...

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1. Verfasser: Day, John W. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hall, Charles (VerfasserIn), Roy, Eric (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London Springer 2016
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Zusammenfassung: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. .
Beschreibung:xii, 348 Seiten
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ISBN:9781493932429
978-1-4939-3242-9