| Foreword | | xiii | |
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| Preface | | xix | |
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| Acknowledgments | | xxv | |
| PART ONE FOUNDATION CONCEPTS |
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| 1 Beyond the Limits to Growth |
| | 3 | (10) |
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| 2 What is Sustainability? |
| | 13 | (12) |
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| Box 2.1 Defining Social Sustainability |
| | 21 | (4) |
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| | 25 | (18) |
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| | 43 | (10) |
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| 5 The International Response to Climate Change |
| | 53 | (10) |
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| Box 5.1 Cap and Dividend in the United States |
| | 60 | (3) |
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| 6 The Ecological Deficit: Creating a New Political Framework |
| | 63 | (14) |
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| 7 Water: Adapting to a New Normal |
| | 77 | (20) |
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| | 97 | (22) |
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| 9 Getting Fossil Fuels Off the Plate |
| | 119 | (9) |
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| 10 Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on Soil |
| | 128 | (12) |
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| 11 Growing Community Food Systems |
| | 140 | (13) |
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| 12 Population: The Multiplier of Everything Else |
| | 153 | (24) |
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| PART SEVEN CULTURE AND BEHAVIOR |
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| 13 Dangerously Addictive: Why We are Biologically Ill-Suited to the Riches of Modern America |
| | 177 | (7) |
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| 14 Remapping Relationships: Humans in Nature |
| | 184 | (10) |
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| 15 The Human Nature of Unsustainability |
| | 194 | (13) |
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| 16 Making Sense of Peak Oil and Energy Uncertainty |
| | 207 | (4) |
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| 17 Hydrocarbons in North America |
| | 211 | (18) |
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| 18 Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy |
| | 229 | (18) |
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| 19 Peak Oil and the Great Recession |
| | 247 | (12) |
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| | 259 | (20) |
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| | 279 | (4) |
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| 22 The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies |
| | 283 | (12) |
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| PART TEN CITIES, TOWNS, AND SUBURBS |
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| 23 The Death of Sprawl: Designing Urban Resilience for the Twenty-First-Century Resource and Climate Crises |
| | 295 | (19) |
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| 24 Smart Decline in Post-Carbon Cities: The Buffalo Commons Meets Buffalo, New York |
| | 314 | (8) |
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| 25 Toward Zero-Carbon Buildings |
| | 322 | (13) |
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| 26 Local Government in a Time of Perk Oil and Climate Change |
| | 335 | (12) |
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| PART ELEVEN TRANSPORTATION |
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| 27 Transportation in the Post-Carbon World |
| | 347 | (16) |
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| 28 Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the End of Waste |
| | 363 | (22) |
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| 29 Human Health and Well-Being in an Era of Energy Scarcity and Climate Change |
| | 385 | (24) |
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| 30 Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability |
| | 409 | (10) |
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| 31 Community Colleges: A Vital Resource for Education in the Post-Carbon Era |
| | 419 | (10) |
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| PART FIFTEEN BUILDING RESILIENCE |
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| | 429 | (13) |
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| 33 What Can Communities Do? |
| | 442 | (13) |
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| PART SIXTEEN CALL TO ACTION |
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| 34 What Now? The Path Forward Begins with One Step |
| | 455 | (4) |
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| Notes | | 459 | (40) |
| Index | | 499 | |
