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Growth Management for a Sustainable Future Ecological Sustainability as the New Growth Management Focus for the 21st Century
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Gabor Zovanyi
Book Code: B7349
ISBN: 0-275-97349-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97349-0
240 pages, tables
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 3/30/2001
List Price: $33.95 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Previous books on growth management in the United States favor balanced growth, which suggests that growth and environmental protection represent equally legitimate objectives. Taking issue with the balanced growth position, this book argues that further growth is unsustainable and that growth management must focus on ensuring ecological sustainability. The book opens with the arguments supporting current global limits to growth, and then shows that the growth management movement in the United States represents an institutionalized form of ongoing growth accommodation, which is incongruous with sustainable behavior. The book also documents the historical pro-growth tendency of the planning profession and contends that this bias is impeding the necessary transition to a sustainable future. In addition, it presents the standards courts use to decide the legality of growth management programs and suggests that those standards do not present insurmountable obstacles to stopping future growth. In conclusion, this book presents operational measures of ecological sustainability and argues that the growth imperative currently driving the growth management movement must be replaced by the imperative of ecological sustainability.
Table of Contents:
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • The Growth Management Context
  • The Evolution of the Growth Management Movement in the United States
  • The Role of the Planning Profession in Growth Management
  • The Role of the Courts in Shaping Growth Management Efforts
  • Ecological Sustainability as the New Growth Management Focus
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 97-35138
LCC Class: HC110
Dewey Class: 338
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