Sustainable Urban Planning

nations. But whereas Ricardo elaborated his thesis for a pre-modernist European region, contemporary free trade and free dumping ...

tage which arises from socially appropriate levels of trade liberalization, and accord approval to capitalism over communism. Ye ...

The tidal flow of what might be described as ‘gross human contentment’ in OECD nations is ebbing toward a condition of smugness. ...

my small home town Helensville, population 2,700), I feel com- fortable about town meetings, but am often dismayed with insen- s ...

Box 3.1 The ever-changing scene THE POLITICAL CRISISnoticeably apparent in the OECD during the 1960s is still evident. The issue ...

there is a better, slower, way forward, and that the patterns and traces which produced triple-balanced harmony in the past have ...

scant appreciation of the consequent damage to the biosphere, the depletion of non- renewable resources, or the stress induced t ...

landowner was, literally, in competition to exploit the ‘free’ hot-water energy resource – the exercise of Exploitation Dynamics ...

In terms of the Exploitation and Discard reasoning it is apparent that it is not realistically possible (in other words it is no ...

The most significant confrontation is that of persuading, educating and regulating those who manufacture and dis- charge from ur ...

are nurtured. That resources set, implicated in development withconservation, is presented in box 3.2 as Resources within ecosys ...

Box 3.2 Resources within ecosystems Conservation withdevelopment within a framework of generic sustainability acknowledges four ...

an accessory criticism relating to some of the data sets’. Cole et al. were partly correct on both counts, yet only for a period ...

94 Practice Box 3.3 Global population and energy use During the nineteenth century the increase in population numbers and the sc ...

Resource depletion is a matter governments, in a global context, have been disinclined to heed. The push for Agenda 21(the ‘Rio ...

largely social strictures which lie at the heart of concerns held by those now living, influencing the small-family option. Seco ...

There is much analysis aboutissues; over-stocking, over-invest- ing, over-depending, over-producing, under-processing and under- ...

Box 3.4 Soft pathways A scale pathway which leads to technologies which bypass ‘giantism’ thus avoiding ‘thinking big’ and offs ...

Taking up conservative pathway applications which favour the use of hydro-generated power, solar power and photosyn- thesized e ...

100 Practice Box 3.5 Sustainable co-dependency Among the environmentally knowledgeable, engagement of the generic expression ‘su ...