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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Excelsior Editions |
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Excelsior editions.
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| Contents |
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Remaking a Region-Intentionally; Inspiration and Insight; Landscapes: Re-Meaning Place and People; Beyond Meaning; Sustainability's Challenge; Plan of the Book; Chapter 1: How We Lost Sustainability; A Landscape Overturned; Industrializing the Hudson River Region; Understanding Unsustainability; Critical Environmental Theory; Ecological Modernization; A Different Kind of Capitalism; Chapter 2: A Place under Siege; Everything Is Hitched; Checking the Region's Ecological Pulse; Assessing Ecosystem Health; Ecological Traps in the Headwaters |
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Biological Pollution"I Think There's Something Here"; Emerging Environmental Concerns; Endocrine Disruptors; Salt; Tiny Plastic Beads; Unintended Consequences; Heeding Ecology's Lessons; Chapter 3: A Constant Bounty; "Wonderful Lifestyle"; "Big Organic," Outsized Influence; Greenmarkets and More; Farming's Ecology; Twenty-First Century Farming; Amazing Ag; Maybe 55 Percent; Passing It On; Ground for Optimism; Chapter 4: Two Hundred Subdivisions Too Late?; Making Red Hook Red Hook; Supporting Sustainable Land Use; Adapting to Climate Change; Greening Greene County |
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Conservation through DevelopmentSeeing the Landscape; Playground for the Rich?; Getting to Regionalism; Lingering Land Use Challenges; Chapter 5: Remaking Communities; Sustainable Community Design; Struggling for Environmental Justice; Remaking Harlem's Landscape; Sustainable South Bronx: Filling a Void; Putting a Number on Environmental Injustice; Regenerating Community; Constructing Complete Communities; Chapter 6: How It All Adds Up; High Density; Preserving What's Left; Taking from the Ground ... and Putting It Back; Deep Green Buildings; Ideal Human Habitat; A There There |
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Deepening Landscape ConnectionsChapter 7: A Complete Disruption; Starting with a Problem; Proof of Concept; People, Planet, Business; Spinning the Meter Backward; Stumbling to Sustainability; Chapter 8: A Landscape to Fight For; Battling for the Battenkill; A Million Little Things; "You Guys Gonna Do Something about This?"; Really Wonderful Places; A Force for Sustainability; New Understandings of the Mud Puddle; Conclusion: A Practical Revolution; Insight from Inspiration; Core Sustainable Landscape Characteristics; Intentional Landscape Creation; Stepping Up and Acting Up; Missing Links |
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Enter ResilienceLessons Learned; Methodological Note; Creating Sustainable Communities: The Film Version; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
From Mount Marcy to Manhattan and beyond, the Hudson River region has become an incubator for rich and varied experiments in sustainable living. In this fascinating book, Rik Scarce showcases some of these efforts by telling the stories of dynamic individuals and organizations that are remaking the region's landscape through ecosystem stewardship, nurturing agricultural practices, and urban renewal for the twenty-first century, along with those promoting creative land-use planning, richly functioning communities, and green businesses. Together, their achievements point to the potential for other areas of the country to forge sustainable futures, and also remind us of the sobering realities and daunting challenges that await us as we attempt to remake our relationships with the planet and with each other |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Environmental policy -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Community development -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Sustainable development -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Community development.
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Ecology.
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Environmental policy.
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Sustainable development.
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| SUBJECT |
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Environmental conditions
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United States -- Hudson River Valley.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438456447 |
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1438456441 |
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