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Author : State College (Pa.)
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Neighborhoods in State College Borough written by State College (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bianjie Ji
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Residential Choice, Demographics, and Sustainability written by Bianjie Ji and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this thesis is to examine concerns towards sustainable development of residents living in different neighborhoods with divergent sustainability levels (most, medium, and least sustainable urban forms) in a campus town, State College, PA. The research questions considered the role of participants demographics and neighborhood features in relationship to articulated sustainability concerns as they intersected with residential choices related to residential features, housing/neighborhood satisfaction, and neighborhood of residence.The study contributes to sustainability research by investigating to what extent neighborhood choices examined through the lens of sustainable urban form (in State College) are impacted by concerns for sustainable development. Since housing preferences (e.g., electricity and air-conditioning/heating) and neighborhood of residence (e.g., transportation auto dependence versus transit) are linked to energy consumption, this linkage allows us to begin to understand the degree to which sustainability influences the decision-making process regarding housing. Residents are informed about the sustainability impact of their choices and activities, yet often continue to engage in extravagant, over-consumptive, and non-sustainable behavior. So, it is imperative to identify the barriers to sustainable behavior by examining residents attitudes towards residential features, sustainability, and residential satisfaction. Through survey and self-report, this study contributes to exploring and understanding these residential choices. Participants concern for sustainability was assessed by answers to questions derived from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs (United Nations, 2015). Measures of preference for neighborhood features were derived from the Perceived Residential Environmental Quality Index or PREQI (Bonaiuto, Aiello, Perugini, Bonnes, and Ercolani, 1999). Neighborhood satisfaction was assessed by participant self-report using a seven-point Likert scale. Neighborhood of residence was assessed by identifying residents of different neighborhoods (most, medium, and least sustainable) based on a validated measure of sustainable urban form (Song & Knaap, 2004).Within the three selected neighborhood types, a stratified random sampling strategy was used to select households for data collection. A door-to-door survey was distributed to collect responses in the selected neighborhoods. This was supplemented with mailed surveys. Finally, I surveyed 30 households in each of the three neighborhood types for a total of 90 subjects. ANOVA (Analysis of Variances), Correlation, T-test, and Chi-square tests were the primary data analysis methods. I found relatively little difference in concerns towards sustainable development between residents of neighborhoods with differing urban form (most, medium, and least sustainable urban forms). I also found that less educated, lower-income, and/or younger people were more likely to live in the most sustainable urban-form neighborhoods although they had similarly high concerns for sustainable development as more educated, higher-income, and/or older people. Additionally, it is noted that residents in different sustainable urban form neighborhoods and/or different demographics had different reasons for living in their neighborhoods assessed by PREQIs. For example, residents of the most sustainable urban form neighborhoods placed more value on school and commercial services, while those of the least sustainable urban form neighborhoods esteemed upkeep more.Both housing satisfaction and neighborhood satisfaction were significantly (positively) correlated with sociability and transport services. Housing satisfaction was also significantly (positively) correlated with building aesthetics while neighborhood satisfaction was significantly (positively) correlated with sports and school services, internal functionality (e.g. easiness to cycle around), and green areas. However, residents living in different sustainable urban form neighborhoods had no significant differences in housing or neighborhood satisfaction; they all had high housing/neighborhood satisfaction.Thus, I conclude that all study participants valued sustainability goals irrespective of where they lived. One possible explanation is that since Sustainable Development Goals are disconnected from daily living context, study participants were unable to make linkages between sustainability goals and sustainable urban form. So, I recommend the development of detailed actionable sustainable development goals that are linked to daily activities.
Author : Brent Yarnal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483609
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet written by Brent Yarnal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists and policymakers have realised that localities are central to addressing the causes and consequences of global environmental change. The goal of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO) was to develop the infrastructure necessary to monitor and understand the local dimensions of global change. This book presents the philosophy behind HERO, the methods used to put that philosophy into action, its results, and the lessons learned from the project. HERO used three strategies: it developed research protocols and data standards for collecting data; it built a web-based networking environment to help investigators share data, analyses and ideas from remote locations; and investigators field-tested these concepts by applying them in diverse biophysical and socioeconomic settings - central Massachusetts, central Pennsylvania, southwestern Kansas, and the US-Mexico border region of Arizona. The book highlights the unique focus of HERO regarding thinking and acting on complex, integrative, and interdisciplinary global change science at local scales, and is valuable for global change scientists.
Author : Woodrow W. Clark II
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441902198
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Communities written by Woodrow W. Clark II and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book would not have been possible without the dedication and commitment of each of the chapter authors. For some authors, writing a chapter was beyond their “9–5” job, and this book re?ects their commitment to sustainability at the local level for their communities. To every chapter author and their staff, friends, and families, thank you. This dynamic and paradigm-changing volume on the topic of sustainable development is focused on communities such as cities, schools, and colleges where the future of our families and children are most at risk. We must act today as each of the chapters represents in their presentations. This book marks a new era: the Third Industrial Revolution. The new age of the Third Industrial Revolution has been labeled by some as the “green era” or “green economy,” but it had already started around the world, especially in Europe and Japan, for over a decade – since the end of the 20th c- tury. More signi?cantly, the book highlights people and communities who have a shared concern and vision along with the will and determination to enact programs and polices that make sustainable development real – not just political rhetoric or “branding” or even the current “buzz word” for obtaining funds and grants. The book presents “The Sequel to an Inconvenient Truth” – actual examples of how c- munities can and have changed in order to mitigate climate change. Again, thanks to everyone and their colleagues.
Author : Avi Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000588092
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Designing Innovative Sustainable Neighborhoods written by Avi Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, the book’s fully illustrated chapters provide detailed insights into contemporary strategies that architects, planners and builders are integrating into their thought processes and residential design practices. Past approaches to planning and design modes of dwellings and neighborhoods can no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. This book explores new outlooks on neighborhood design, which are propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects. It presents contemporary well-designed and illustrated examples of communities and detailed analysis of topics including the depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. It also explores the increasing costs of material, labor, land and infrastructure, which pose economic challenges; as well as social challenges including the need for walkable communities and the increase in live-work environments. The need to think innovatively about neighborhoods is at the core of this book, which will be useful to students and practitioners of urban design, urban planning, geography and urban systems; and to architecture studios focused on sustainable residential development.
Author : Woodrow W. Clark II
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080963366
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Communities Design Handbook written by Woodrow W. Clark II and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-07-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of Sustainable Communities Design Handbook is to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, both now and for generations to come. This means creating a better and safer environment internationally through the sustainable use of natural resources, encouraging sustainable development which supports a strong economy, and ensuring a high quality environment that can be enjoyed by all. Sustainable Development Partnerships brings together in one reference today's most cutting edge technologies and methods for creating sustainable communities. With this book, Environmental Engineers, Civil Engineers, Architects, Mechanical Engineers, and Energy Engineers find a common approach to building environmental friendly communities which are energy efficient. The five part treatment starts with a clear and rigorous exposition of sustainable development in practice, followed by self-contained chapters concerning applications. Methods for the sustainable use of natural resources in built communities Clearly explains the most cutting edge sustainable technologies Provides a common approach to building sustainable communities Coverage of sustainable practices from architecture to construction
Author : Mark Roseland
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 155092768X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Toward Sustainable Communities, Fifth Edition written by Mark Roseland and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional level Fully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the why, the what, and most importantly, the how of creating resilient, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places. This fifth edition introduces the innovative Community Capital Compass as a powerful tool for maximizing the environmental, economic, and social benefits of complex community and regional decisions, and has been completely revamped to serve readers in the US, Canada, and abroad. Those seeking a comprehensive approach to sustainable community planning and development from the neighborhood to the regional level will benefit from: An expanded Community Capital framework that organizes community resources into eight interrelated forms of capital The Community Capital Compass process for navigating complex situations involving everything from municipal services and land-use planning to housing and climate change Elaboration of collaborative governance, community mobilization, public engagement, capacity building, infrastructure, policymaking, and promising practices A companion website featuring case studies, profiles, online resources, interactive tools, videos, and more. Packed with concrete, proven strategies, this "living book" is the go-to guide for sustainable community development. Toward Sustainable Communities is essential reading for current and aspiring professionals, practitioners, policymakers, educators, purpose-driven organizations, engaged citizens, and anyone concerned about their communities and a sustainable future.
Author : Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803824379
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book How Public Libraries Build Sustainable Communities in the 21st Century written by Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public libraries, through their mission, vision, and position in the community, play a significant part in building community sustainability and are already positioned to serve as a “backbone support organization” for collective impact initiatives.
Author : Woodrow W. Clark II
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 012813965X
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Cities and Communities Design Handbook written by Woodrow W. Clark II and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Communities Design Handbook: Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology, Second Edition, brings together the major players responsible for sustainable development at both community and metropolitan scales. The book aims to explain and demonstrate the practice, planning, design, building and managing of the engineering, architectural and economic development of cities and communities to meet sustainable development objectives. Offering a holistic approach to creating sustainable communities, the book includes a 40 percent increase in new methods and technology over the last edition, and 50 percent more case studies from around the world to illustrate how common sustainability problems are solved. As the concept and practices of a sustainable built environment have evolved over the years, it is increasingly recognized that the scope should be expanded beyond individual buildings to the community scale. Written by an international team of engineers, architects, and environmental experts this second edition includes new HVAC technologies for heating and cooling, energy effect technologies for lighting, and new construction materials which improve heating and cooling efficiencies. This new edition will also include critical updates on international codes: LEED, BREEAM, and Green Globes. Explains the most cutting-edge green technologies and methods for use in built communities Provides a common approach in using natural resources when building and designing green communities Features coverage of green practices from architecture to construction Covers compliance with various international codes, methods and legal frameworks
Author : Mark Roseland
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865717117
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Toward Sustainable Communities written by Mark Roseland and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps citizens and their governments apply the concept of sustainable development in their communities. Original.
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Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : President's Council on Sustainable Development. Sustainable Communities Task Force
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Communities Task Force Report written by President's Council on Sustainable Development. Sustainable Communities Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030303063
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Universities and Sustainable Communities: Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030 written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book showcases examples of university engagement in community initiatives and reports on the results from research and from a variety of institutional projects and programmes. As a whole, the book illustrates how actors at the community (microlevel) and other levels (meso and macro) can make valuable and concrete contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, more specifically, to achieving the objectives defined at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is one of the outcomes of the “Second World Symposium on Sustainability Science”, which was jointly organised by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in cooperation with the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).
Author : Rhonda Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113504807X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Communities written by Rhonda Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword written by Senator Bernie Sanders What is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives but thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions. Citing Burlington, Vermont's remarkable rise to award-winning status, this book explores the balance of community planning, social enterprise development, energy and environment, food systems and cultural well-being. Aimed at policymakers, development practitioners, students, and citizens, this book describes which and how multiple influences facilitate the creation of a local, durable and truly sustainable economy. The authors hope to inspire others by sharing this story of what can be done in the name of community economic development.
Author : Ryan Holifield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317392817
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice written by Ryan Holifield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice presents an extensive and cutting-edge introduction to the diverse, rapidly growing body of research on pressing issues of environmental justice and injustice. With wide-ranging discussion of current debates, controversies, and questions in the history, theory, and methods of environmental justice research, contributed by over 90 leading social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and scholars from professional disciplines from six continents, it is an essential resource both for newcomers to this research and for experienced scholars and practitioners. The chapters of this volume examine the roots of environmental justice activism, lay out and assess key theories and approaches, and consider the many different substantive issues that have been the subject of activism, empirical research, and policy development throughout the world. The Handbook features critical reviews of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodological approaches and explicitly addresses interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and engaged research. Instead of adopting a narrow regional focus, it tackles substantive issues and presents perspectives from political and cultural systems across the world, as well as addressing activism for environmental justice at the global scale. Its chapters do not simply review the state of the art, but also propose new conceptual frameworks and directions for research, policy, and practice. Providing detailed but accessible overviews of the complex, varied dimensions of environmental justice and injustice, the Handbook is an essential guide and reference not only for researchers engaged with environmental justice, but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for policymakers and activists.
Author : Woodrow W. Clark II
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313397228
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Global Energy Innovation written by Woodrow W. Clark II and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is entering the Third Industrial Revolution, an era of remarkable progress in science and technology that will require a global shift away from reliance on fossil-fuel and carbon-based energy. This book explains how America can lead the effort to reverse global warming and become the world leader in global energy innovation. America is trailing other parts of the developed world in terms of its development of—and commitment to—renewable energy. In Europe and Asia, sustainable communities, smart green grids, and emerging environmentally sound technologies are becoming common. The United States must move beyond the lethargy and defeatism of the 9/11 era, rediscover its ability to lead in technological inventiveness, and revitalize its economy via the creation of green jobs and sustainable, carbon-neutral communities. Because the lives of America's children and grandchildren are at stake, America must act quickly. Global Energy Innovation: Why America Must Lead explains why the emerging Third Industrial Revolution will become the largest social and economic megatrend of the post-modern era. With its comprehensive, up-to-date examination of renewable energy systems and related green technologies, this book represents a call-to-action that will benefit any reader, regardless of their status as a lay person, scholar, or scientist.
Author : Paul James
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824861205
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development written by Paul James and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinea is going through a crisis: A concentration on conventional approaches to development, including an unsustainable reliance on mining, forestry, and foreign aid, has contributed to the country’s slow decline since independence in 1975. Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development attempts to address problems and gaps in the literature on development and develop a new qualitative conception of community sustainability informed by substantial and innovative research in Papua New Guinea. In this context, sustainability is conceived in terms that include not just practices tied to economic development. It also informs questions of wellbeing and social integration, community-building, social support, and infrastructure renewal. In short, the concern with sustainability here entails undertaking an analysis of how communities are sustained through time, how they cohere and change, rather than being constrained within discourses and models of development. From another angle, this project presents an account of community sustainability detached from instrumental concerns with economic development. Contributors address questions such as: What are the stories and histories through which people respond to their nation’s development? What is the everyday social environment of groups living in highly diverse areas (migrant settlements, urban villages, remote communities)? They seek to contribute to a creative and dynamic grass-roots response to the demands of everyday life and local-global pressures. While the overdeveloped world faces an intersecting crisis created by global climate change and financial instability, Papua New Guinea, with all its difficulties, still has the basis for responding to this manifold predicament. Its secret lies in what has been seen as its weakness: underdeveloped economies and communities, where people still maintain sustainable relations to each other and the natural world.
