About Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
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Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability by Call Number: SB472.Z48 2017ISBN: 9781472590626Publication Date: 2017This book takes a broad look at strategies and completed projects to provide the reader with a strong understanding of the sustainability challenges being faced by designers today, and potential routes to addressing them.
Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy by Call Number: HN49.C6P467 2013ISBN: 9780415820165Publication Date: 2013What is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives but thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions. Citing Burlington, Vermont's remarkable rise to award-winning status, this book explores the balance of community planning, social enterprise development, energy and environment, food systems and cultural well-being.
The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval by ISBN: 9781610918602Publication Date: 2017The Community Resilience Reader offers a new vision for creating resilience, through essays by leaders in such varied fields as science, policy, community building, and urban design. The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on the ground.
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- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowGreenFILE is a database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.
- Compendex (Ei Village 2) This link opens in a new windowCompendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884.
External Resources
- Sustainable Communities CollaborativeThe Sustainable Communities Collaborative (SCC) facilitates engaged scholarship projects as part of the outreach mission of the Sustainability Institute at Penn State.
- Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable CommunitiesResources from the EPA for advancing smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development.