Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development

by M.A. Silberstein, Chris Maser

Overview

Thirteen years ago, the first edition of Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development examined the question: is the environmental doomsday scenario inevitable? It then presented the underlying concepts of sustainable land-use planning and an array of alternatives for modifying conventional planning for and regulation of the development of land. Th

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040073698
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	10/25/2013
Series:	Social Environmental Sustainability
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	854 KB

About the Author

Silberstein M.A., Jane and Chris Maser

Table of Contents

Sustainable Development: The Concept. True Community is Founded on a Sense of Place, History, and Trust. Nature's Inviolable Biophysical Principles and Land Use Planning. Planning for a Local Living Economy: Reinventing the Comprehensive Plan. Planning for a Local Living Economy: Nature's Biophysical Requirements. Reframing the Problem. Modeling the Planning Process after Nature. Implementing the Comprehensive Plan. Monitoring Progress. Ongoing Community Engagement-Citizens as Planners.

Editorial Reviews

"A comprehensive and visionary approach to land-use planning that grounds the unfolding of human communities and economies within an underlying matrix of living systems. This book should help reinvigorate the planning profession at a time of unprecedented change, complexity, and need for resilience."
—Stuart Cowan, Bainbridge Graduate Institute

"Silberstein and Maser help us imagine a world in which life is valued more than money and the purpose of business is to serve people, community, and nature."
—David Korten, Board chair for YES! Magazine and author, Agenda for a New Economy

"...excellent piece of work... brilliantly written and thoroughly referenced."
—Dr. H. James Quigley, Stony Brook University, New York, USA

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