Green Plans - Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth

Informationen zum Autor Huey D. Johnson is the founder and president of the Resource Renewal Institute in San Francisco. Klappentext "Green plans" are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. In this definitive overview of green plans today! Huey D. Johnson provides a detailed and accessible examination of their theory! implementation! and performance across the globe! highlighting the challenges and successes of green plans in the Netherlands! Canada! New Zealand! Norway! Austria! the United Kingdom! Germany! the rest of the European Community! and Singapore. Green plans will serve future generations as models of creative collaboration between government and business. This revised and updated edition features new information on green plans globally and a new afterword by the author. Zusammenfassung Green plans are strategies developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. This overview of green plans provides an examination of their theory! implementation! and performance across the globe! highlighting the challenges and successes of green plans in different countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Defining the Problem and Its Solution            Chapter 1: A Commitment to Change            Chapter 2: Sustainability: A Modern Odyssesy            Chapter 3: Health Plus Environment Equals Security            Chapter 4: A Green Plans Predecessor: California's Investing for Prosperity ProgramPart II: Assessing Green Plans in Action            Chapter 5: The Netherlands            Chapter 6: New Zealand            Chapter 7: Towards A Sustainable SingaporeChapter 8: European Union Environmental PolicyAfterward to the Third Edition

Product details

• Authors: Huey Johnson, Huey D Johnson, Huey D. Johnson
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2008
• EAN: 9780803260207
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6020-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Our Sustainable Future; Our Sustainable Future
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology