Social-Environmental Planning - Chris Maser

Social-Environmental Planning
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Autor: Chris Maser

 Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.
ISBN: 9781439814598
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 328
Data wydania: 2009-09-01
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With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level. Written by Chris Maser, international consultant on forest ecology, sustainable forestry practices, and sustainable development, Social-Environmental Planning: The Design Interface Between Everyforest and Everycity focuses on community based solutions, emphasizing how the heavy lifting of sustainability will always be done inside existing cities and communities. Based on the author's forty years of experience, the book covers the sustainability of the planet and its population when dealing with climate change. The book provides an in-depth understanding of the commonalities of pattern between Everyforest and Everycity. Maser suggests that before changes can be made, society must adapt to the circumstances of global climate change as they already are, and then determine what we can do to stabilize global climate as effectively and quickly as possible. He explores the reciprocal interface between communities and the landscape and how, when this interface is recognized and understood, it can create solutions that work. With this comprehension, people can adapt to the present and begin determining what they can do now to leave the planet a little better for each generation. ... provides an important and unique perspective on the strong relationships and parallels between human-made systems and structures and other natural systems and structures. The convergence of the social and physical sciences; of science and spirituality; of art and science and of other previously isolated fields of endeavor and belief will be, I believe, the hallmark of this century. Chris's book elegantly weaves together two such realms of thought and understanding. ... I believe this book will make a significant contribution ... -Jane Silberstein, Bainbridge Island, Washington Maser makes a compelling case for the importance of maintaining Nature's processes, which ultimately sustain the quality of our life. -R.S. Whaley, Ph. D., President, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York I am very impressed by the contribution you have made to Oregon's natural environment and our collective quality of life. -John A. Kitzhaber, M.D., Governor, State of Oregon Author, lecturer, and international consultant on forest management issues, Chris Maser of Corvallis, Oregon, is known to some as the 'Ghandi of the Forest.' ... His informed, nonadversarial approach toward environmental issues and competing interest groups has won him the respect of conservationists, government agencies, and members of the timber industry ... -Will Hornyak, The Stewards' Journal

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Chris Maser