Stephen Wheeler

Planning for Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

In the Time of Populism, Inequality, and Climate Crisis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can humanity sustain itself and thrive on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the climate crisis deepens and as right-wing populism and high levels of inequality prevent action.

Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded, and accessible introduction to the concept of sustainability planning. The text explores topics such as how more livable cities and towns might be created, how greenhouse gas emissions might be curtailed, how social inequities might be reduced, how local ecosystems can be restored, and how more sustainable forms of economic development can be brought about.

More than simply a third edition, this book has been extensively rewritten to provide a timely rethinking of the nature of sustainability planning, issues central to it, and scales of application. There is a new focus on system change in order for other forms of progress to come about. This edition also includes expanded material on climate action, housing, social equity, capitalism, democracy, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the developing world.

This book considers in turn each scale of planning - international, national, regional, municipal, neighborhood, and site and building - and illustrates how sustainability action at different scales interrelates. This comprehensive volume lays out a hopeful and constructive view of the future in a time of growing challenge. It will be essential reading for students of urban planning, urban development, and similar fields and practitioners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040395509
• Artikelnr.: 74985192

Autorenporträt

Stephen M. Wheeler, PhD, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis, with interests in sustainable development, climate action planning, urban design, and theory of social change. Former chair of the UC Davis Community Development Graduate Group and Faculty Sustainability Champion, his books include Reimagining Sustainable Cities, Climate Change and Social Ecology, and The Sustainable Urban Development Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: The Nature of Sustainability Planning 2.
Sustainable Development 3. Theory of Sustainability Planning 4.
Sustainability Planning and the Three E's 5. Sustainability Planning in
Practice 6. Tools for Sustainability Planning Part Two: Issues Central to
Sustainability Planning 7. Climate Change Planning 8. Energy and Materials
Use 9. Environmental Planning 10. Land Use and Urban Growth 11. Urban
Design 12. Transportation 13. Housing and Homelessness 14.Food and Health
15 Green Architecture and Building 16. Social Equity and Environmental
Justice 17. Economic Development 18. Governance and Social Ecology 19.
Issues in Developing Countries Part Three: Scales of Planning 20.
International Planning 21. National Planning 22. State and Provincial
Planning 23. Regional Planning 24. Local Planning 25. Neighborhood Planning
26. Site Planning and Architecture Conclusion 27. How Do We Get There From
Here?