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America's most sustainable cities and regions : surviving the 21st century megatrends

Title
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. New York : Springer, [2016]
  2. ©2016
Author
  1. Day, John W., 1945-

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Additional authors
  1. Hall, Charles A. S.
  2. Roy, Eric D., 1984-
  3. Moerschbaecher, Matthew Korbel, 1981-
  4. D'Elia, Christopher F.
  5. Pimentel, David, 1925-
  6. Yáñez-Arancibia, Alejandro
Description
  1. xii, 348 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm
Subject
  1. Sustainable development > United States
  2. Urban ecology (Sociology) > United States
  3. Sustainable development
  4. Urban ecology (Sociology)
  5. Stadtentwicklung
  6. Regionalentwicklung
  7. Nachhaltigkeit
  8. Umweltverträglichkeit
  9. United States
  10. Amerika
Contents
  1. 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. .
Call number
  1. JBE 16-301
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index.
Author
  1. Day, John W., 1945- author.
Title
  1. 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.
Publisher
  1. New York : Springer, [2016]
Copyright date
  1. ©2016
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index.
Added author
  1. Hall, Charles A. S., author.
  2. Roy, Eric D., 1984- contributor.
  3. Moerschbaecher, Matthew Korbel, 1981- contributor.
  4. D'Elia, Christopher F., contributor.
  5. Pimentel, David, 1925- contributor.
  6. Yáñez-Arancibia, Alejandro, contributor.
LCCN
  1. 2015952007
ISBN
  1. 9781493932429 (paperback)
  2. 149393242X (paperback)
Research call number
  1. JBE 16-301
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