Overview
Explains the emerging factors that will make cities and regions more or less livable in the new century
Shows where your city or region ranks on a “sustainability” map of the United States
Lists the pros and cons of living in large urban areas as the megatrends of the 21st century play out
Describes how high energy costs and future resource scarcity will affect society at what ecologists call the “landscape level”
Describes how climate change will impact different areas of North America
Describes how decreasing discretionary income will impact specific cities and regions
Explains why the “ecosystem services” of the natural world will be increasingly important to sustainability
Illustrates why all of these factors will favor economic solutions at a local level and a reversal of globalization
Explains how these principles apply to industrial economies and countries globally
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents(11 chapters)
Keywords
- America's Most Livable Cities
- America's Most Sustainable Cities Book
- End of the Oil Age
- Energy Scarcity Implications
- Energy Scarcity and US Economy
- Energy and Where You Live
- Great Recession and the Energy Crisis
- Limited Resources and Climate Change
- Limited Resources and Economic Recovery
- Peak Oil and Sustainability
- Sustainability Map USA
- Sustainability and Place Book
- Sustainability at the Landscape Level
- landscape/regional and urban planning
About this book
Finite resources will mean profound changes for society in general and the energy-intensive lifestyles of the US and Canada in particular. But not all regions are equally vulnerable to these 21st-century megatrends. Are you ready to look beyond “America’s Most Livable Cities” to the critical factors that will determine the sustainability of your municipality and region? Find out where your city or region ranks according to the forces that will impact our lives in the next years and decades.
·resource availability and ecological services shaped the modern landscape
·emerging megatrends will make cities and regions more or less livable in the new century
·your city or region ranks on a “sustainability” map of the United States
·urban metabolism puts large cities at particular risk
·sustainability factors will favor economic solutions at a local, rather than global, level
·these principles apply to industrial economies and countries globally.This book should be cited as follows:
J. Day, C. Hall, E. Roy, M. Moersbaecher, C. D'Elia, D. Pimentel, and A. Yanez. 2016. America's most sustainable cities and regions: Surviving the 21st century megatrends. Springer, New York. 348 p.
Reviews
“The authors do provide a systematic way of looking at sustainability, which can be applied to cities across the USA and around the world. … John W. Day and Charles Hall have provided a great overview of the factors that can make a city and a region sustainable … . this book may also serve as a road map to a reasonably prosperous future.” (Bart Hawkins Kreps, resilience.org, February, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept of Oceanography & Coastal Sci, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
John W. Day
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College of Environmental, SUNY ESF, POLSON, USA
Charles Hall
About the authors
Charles Hall is a Systems Ecologist who received his PhD under Howard T. Odum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Hall is Professor Emeritus at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York, and the author or editor of twelve books and nearly 300 scholarly articles. He has worked or taught in some 30 different countries. He is best known for his development of the concept of EROI, or energy return on investment, which is an examination of how organisms, including humans, invest energy into obtaining additional energy to improve biotic or social fitness. He has applied these approaches to fish migrations, carbon balance, tropical land use change, the extraction of petroleum and other fuels, and how EROI influences the ability of society to achieve different levels of economic and social development. Presently he is developing a new field, BioPhysical Economics, as a supplement or alternative to conventional neoclassical economics, while applying systems and EROI thinking to a broad series of resource and economic issues. Hall's work on EROI has been featured in such media outlets as Scientific American (most recently in April, 2013), Forbes Magazine, and the Discovery Channel.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions
Book Subtitle: Surviving the 21st Century Megatrends
Authors: John W. Day, Charles Hall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3243-6
Publisher: Copernicus New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3242-9Published: 24 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3243-6Published: 23 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 348
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Economic Geography