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Prospects for Resilience

Type of content: Books

Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience.  Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to...

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Water is for Fighting Over

Type of content: Books

"Illuminating." —New York TimesWIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis.

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Design Professional's Guide to Zero Net Energy Buildings

Type of content: Books

In the United States, direct energy use in buildings accounts for 39% of carbon dioxide emissions per year—more than any other sector. Buildings contribute to a changing climate and warming of the earth in ways that will significantly affect future...

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What Makes a Great City

Type of content: Books

One of Planetizen's Top Planning Books for 2017 • San Francisco Chronicle's 2016 Holiday Books Gift Guide Pick What makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a great city.

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Our Renewable Future by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley | An Island Press book

Our Renewable Future

Type of content: Books

One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016  The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world.

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NACTO Transit Street Design Guide

Transit Street Design Guide

Type of content: Books

Transit and cities grow together. As cities work to become more compact, sustainable, and healthy, their work is paying dividends: in 2014, Americans took 10.8 billion trips on public transit, the highest since the dawn of the highway era.

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Aldo Leopold's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Julianne Lutz Warren | An Island Press book

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Type of content: Books

In 2006, Julianne Lutz Warren (née Newton) asked readers to rediscover one of history’s most renowned conservationists.

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Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World)

Type of content: Books

Cities are the world’s future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over how they will grow.

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Human Ecology

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Landscape Architecture

Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us.

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Climate Change in Wildlands

Type of content: Books

Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climate change is under way. In the past century, global temperatures have risen an average of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, a trend that is expected to only accelerate.

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