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oapen-20.500.12657-633872024-03-28T08:18:57Z Creating Sustainable Communities Scarce, Rik Business & Economics Development Sustainable Development thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies From Mount Marcy to Manhattan and beyond, the Hudson River region has become an incubator for rich and varied experiments in sustainable living. In this fascinating book, Rik Scarce showcases some of these efforts by telling the stories of dynamic individuals and organizations that are remaking the region's landscape through ecosystem stewardship, nurturing agricultural practices, and urban renewal for the twenty-first century, along with those promoting creative land-use planning, richly functioning communities, and green businesses. Together, their achievements point to the potential for other areas of the country to forge sustainable futures, and also remind us of the sobering realities and daunting challenges that await us as we attempt to remake our relationships with the planet and with each other. 2023-06-07T05:47:57Z 2023-06-07T05:47:57Z 2015 book 9781438456430 9781438456423 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63387 eng application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.epub State University of New York Press State University of New York Press a2a9134f-451a-49c3-9b5f-a060536b7cf7 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781438456430 9781438456423 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) State University of New York Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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From Mount Marcy to Manhattan and beyond, the Hudson River region has become an incubator for rich and varied experiments in sustainable living. In this fascinating book, Rik Scarce showcases some of these efforts by telling the stories of dynamic individuals and organizations that are remaking the region's landscape through ecosystem stewardship, nurturing agricultural practices, and urban renewal for the twenty-first century, along with those promoting creative land-use planning, richly functioning communities, and green businesses. Together, their achievements point to the potential for other areas of the country to forge sustainable futures, and also remind us of the sobering realities and daunting challenges that await us as we attempt to remake our relationships with the planet and with each other.
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