Social-Environmental Planning The Design Interface Between Everyforest and Everycity

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level. Written by Chris Maser, international consultant on forest ecology, sustainable forestry practices, and sustainable development, Social-Environmental Planning: The Design Interface Between Everyforest and Everycity focuses on community based solutions, emphasizing how the heavy lifting of sustainability will always be done inside existing cities and communities. Based on the author’s forty years of experience, the book covers the sustainability of the planet and its population when dealing with climate change. The book provides an in-depth understanding of the commonalities of pattern between Everyforest and Everycity. Maser suggests that before changes can be made, society must adapt to the circumstances of global climate change as they already are, and then determine what we can do to stabilize global climate as effectively and quickly as possible. He explores the reciprocal interface between communities and the landscape and how, when this interface is recognized and understood, it can create solutions that work. With this comprehension, people can adapt to the present and begin determining what they can do now to leave the planet a little better for each generation.

The Human Dimension of Social-Environmental PlanningHow We ThinkIntroductionFrame of MindFrame of ReferenceEveryone Is Right from His or Her Own PerspectiveSummationNotesLanguage and CommunicationIntroductionThe Process of CommunicationBarriers to Effective CommunicationSummationNotesNature’s Rules of Engagement in Social-Environmental PlanningThe Law of Cosmic UnificationUnderstanding the Law of Cosmic UnificationThe Inviolate Biophysical PrinciplesNotesBasic Components of DesignIntroductionCompositionStructureFunctionSystem-Altering DisturbancesThe Negotiability of ConstraintsSummationNotesHabitat, the Language of BoundariesFoodWaterShelterSpacePrivacyConnectivitySummationNotesPatterns Across the LandscapeRelationship and PatternSummationNotesInfrastructureThe Energy Interchange SystemConduits of InterchangeThe Service ConnectionThe Transportation System: Efficiency or Effectiveness?The Importance of BackupsSummationNotesShared Relationships between Everyforest and EverycityCumulative Effects, Lag Periods, and ThresholdsThe Triad in EveryforestThe Triad in EverycitySummationNotesAge as an Archive of HistoryAge as an ArchiveWhy Save the Old?SummationNotesEcology and EconomyGross Domestic ProductEco-EfficiencyGenuine Economic IndicatorsReuniting Ecology and EconomySummationNotes A Century for HealingToward Social-Environmental Equality in a Diverse WorldThe Beginnings of International Social ParityRevisiting the Notion of DevelopmentSummationNotesSocial-Environmental Planning in Space and TimeOur Daily RelationshipsEveryforest and Everycity as a Living TrustLong-Term Social-Environmental PlanningSummationNotesChallenges for Social-Environmental PlanningCultural CapacityControlling Our Human PopulationWhat We Introduce into the EnvironmentRenewable EnergyOpen SpaceCentralized GeneralizationThe Urban-Wildlife InterfaceSummationNotesWhere Leaders Dare to GoThe Questions We AskThe Lifestyle We ChooseThe Economics We EmployThe Laws and Policies We EnactThe Landscape Patterns We CreateNotesGlossaryAppendix: Common and Scientific Names of Plants and Animals

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