Sustainability: Development
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UHMC Library Resources
- ArticlesFor full-text articles, use these UHMC databases.
Search terms you might use:
- sustainable development
- urban planning
- city planning
- suburbs
- smart growth
- TOPICsearch This link opens in a new windowCurrent events database with full text for over 150,000 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
- Books & DVDsSearch the library's catalog for books & DVDs.
A few of our books
- Sustainable Land Management in the Tropics byCall Number: Electronic formatISBN: 0754644553Bringing together case studies from Kenya, Benin, Cameroon and the Philippines, this volume provides a multidisciplinary overview of the economics of natural resource management in Tropical regions, at household and village level. By comparing a wide array of climatic and economic conditions, it examines the effect of location and access to the market - as well as the importance of national policies - have on soil and water conservation. The book not only analyzes the benefits of soil and water conservation based on econometric studies, but also assesses the costs involved. In doing so it challenges commonly held assumptions about poorer community's ability to finance such measures.
- Cities as sustainable ecosystems : principles and practices byCall Number: Electronic formatISBN: 1597261874Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries.
- The option of urbanism : investing in a new American dream byCall Number: Electronic formatISBN: 159726136XAmericans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, embracing instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last sixty years: the drivable suburb.
UHMC Films on Demand
- Economic Development of BrownfieldsJob creation, tax base expansion, neighborhood improvement, and sustainable development are only four of the many themes covered in this documentary as it presents the economics side of infill development using examples drawn from the Northeast and Southwest.
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- Going Green: Real-World Solutions for the EnvironmentIt’s easy to talk about environmental stewardship, but quite another matter to practice it. This compilation of 12 ABC News stories shows how governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are taking concrete, eco-friendly action.
- Seeds of Change: A Case Study of Sustainable Development in ChinaAs the video shows, sustainable ecological improvement must be linked to economic improvement for farmers whose very lives hang in the balance of such plans. Filmed largely in China’s Yunnan province, Seeds of Change visits the farmers who switch from growing crops on the riverbanks to forest-based agriculture.
- Sprawl: Inner Cities and Outer SuburbsTo at least one resident of the fictional city of Metropolis, a new outer suburb being planned for some pristine farmland sounds like the American Dream come true. His brother, also a Metropolite but an advocate of smart growth, sees it as a nightmare.
- Sustainable CommunitiesWhat do we mean when we talk about sustainable communities? How can they be created? This program joins architects, urban planners, civic leaders, business owners, and community residents in three separate localities as they respond to the challenge of building a sustainable community.
Websites
- NationaErb Institute for Global Sustainable EnterpriseUniversity of Michigan Sustainable Agriculture Information Service