Creating Sustainable Communities : Lessons from the Hudson River Region.
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Excelsior editions.
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Table of 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Enter ResilienceLessons Learned; Methodological Note; Creating Sustainable Communities: The Film Version; Notes; Index.