Type of content: Books
Book Category: Oceans
Julia Wondolleck and Steven Yaffee are hopeful. Rather than lamenting the persistent conflicts in global marine ecosystems, they instead sought out examples where managers were doing things differently and making progress against great odds.
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Book Category: Biography & Autobiography
It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges—but we need inspiration more than ever.
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
We owe much of our economic prosperity to the vast forested landscapes that cover the earth. The timber we use to build our homes, the water we drink, and the oxygen in the air we breathe come from the complex forested ecosystem that many of us take for...
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Book Category: Energy & Climate
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand by increasing renewable energy production, which is...
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Book Category: Environmental Health
For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds.
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity?
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Finalist for a 2018 United Kingdom National Urban Design Award • A 2017 KUOW Public Radio 2017 End-of-Year Book Choice In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data,...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
For five thousand years, human settlements were nearly always compact places. Everything a person needed on a regular basis lay within walking distance.
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Book Category: Green Building
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...
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Land Use Planning
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.