Agenda for a Sustainable America
Title | Agenda for a Sustainable America PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Dernbach |
Publisher | Environmental Law Institute |
Pages | 549 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Environmental law |
ISBN | 1585761338 |
Agenda for a Sustainable America is a comprehensive assessment of U.S. progress toward sustainable development and a roadmap of necessary next steps toward achieving a sustainable America. Packed with facts, figures, and the well-informed opinions of forty-one experts, it provides an illuminating "snapshot" of sustainability in the United States today. And each of the contributors suggests where we need to go next, recommending three to five specific actions that we should take during the next five to ten years. It thus offers a comprehensive agenda that citizens, corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and government leaders and policymakers can use to make decisions today and to plan for the future.
Sustainable America
Title | Sustainable America PDF eBook |
Author | President's Council on Sustainable Development |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Economic development |
ISBN |
Agenda 21
Title | Agenda 21 PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Taylor |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2016-03-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781530674442 |
The values we hold dear, like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness form the foundation of who we are as a people and a nation. Our traditions and laws are based on these values and were originally designed to preserve human dignity. In my opinion, human dignity is as vital to life as the air we breathe and the water we drink. Without it, life perishes. As you will discover in this book, Agenda 21 believes you are a nuisance. Your very existence represents a stumbling block to a master plan that equates human life to a colony of ants, where the rights of the individual and human dignity are defined by servitude, not freedom, and where personal ambition must be expended for the greater good.
Eco-tyranny
Title | Eco-tyranny PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Sussman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Energy policy |
ISBN | 9781936488506 |
Once one of America's most popular television meteorologists, Sussman believes that the environmental movement is a Trojan horse in an ongoing war to end America's status as a superpower.
Silvopastoral Systems and their Contribution to Improved Resource Use and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Evidence from Latin America
Title | Silvopastoral Systems and their Contribution to Improved Resource Use and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Evidence from Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 2020-08-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9251311927 |
This document represents a joint effort between two action networks of the Global Agenda: (i) Closing the Efficiency Gap and (ii) the Global Network on Silvopastoral Systems. A framework for evaluating natural resource use efficiency is applied to a variety of silvopastoral production models to determine productivity and their socio-economic and environmental benefits. It presents an overview of SPS, their main characteristics and advantages regarding production and benefits for the environment and climate, and their contribution to the SDGs, describing the results of ten case studies of adoption of SPS in diverse contexts in Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina, with a focus on land productivity, meat and milk production, and economic performance at the farm level. Based on the findings, a number of policy recommendations are made with a view to scaling-up and promoting SPS in Latin America and other regions.
Sustainable Security
Title | Sustainable Security PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremi Suri |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0190611480 |
How can the United States craft a sustainable national security strategy in a world of shifting threats, sharp resource constraints, and a changing balance of power? This volume brings together research on this question from political science, history, and political economy, aiming to inform both future scholarship and strategic decision-making.
Regional Planning for a Sustainable America
Title | Regional Planning for a Sustainable America PDF eBook |
Author | Carleton K. Montgomery |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2011-10-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0813552141 |
Regional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today’s effective regional planning programs, analyzing dozens of regional initiatives across North America. The American landscape is being transformed by poorly designed, sprawling development. This sprawl—and its wasteful resource use, traffic, and pollution—does not respect arbitrary political boundaries like city limits and state borders. Yet for most of the nation, the patterns of development and conservation are shaped by fragmented, parochial local governments and property developers focused on short-term economic gain. Regional planning provides a solution, a means to manage human impacts on a large geographic scale that better matches the natural and economic forces at work. By bringing together the expertise of forty-two practitioners and academics, this book provides a practical guide to the key strategies that regional planners are using to achieve truly sustainable growth.