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Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments

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The wish to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically viable places. This comprehensive update of the classic text presents a leading-edge overview of sustainability in a new fully illustrated, full-color format.

Compelling new case studies and expanded remedy of sustainability in rural in addition to urban settings are complemented by contributions from a range of experts around the globe, demonstrating how “community capital” will also be leveraged to meet the needs of cities and towns for:

  • Energy efficiency, waste reduction, and recycling
  • Water, sewage, transportation, and housing
  • Climate change and air quality
  • Land use and urban planning.

Fully supported by an entire suite of online resources and tools, Toward Sustainable Communities is packed with concrete, innovative solutions to a host of municipal challenges. Required reading for policymakers, educators, social enterprises, and engaged citizens, this “living book” will appeal to any individual occupied with community sustainability and a livable future.

Mark Roseland is director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University and professor at SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management. He lectures across the world, advises communities and governments on sustainable development policy and planning, and has been cited as considered one of British Columbia’s “top fifty living public intellectuals.”


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