The No-Growth Imperative
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The No-Growth Imperative

Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth

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The No-Growth Imperative

Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth

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More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge confronting us now is one of replacing the current growth imperative with a no-growth imperative.

Gabor Zovanyi asserts that anything less than stopping growth would merely slow today's dramatic degradation and destruction of ecosystems and their critical life-support services. Zovanyi makes the case that local communities must take action to stop their unsustainable demographic, economic, and urban increases, as an essential prerequisite to the realization of sustainable states.

The book presents rationales and legally defensible strategies for stopping growth in local jurisdictions, and portrays the viability of no-growth communities by outlining their likely economic, social, political, and physical features. It will serve as a resource for those interested in shifting the focus of planning from growth accommodation to the creation of stable, sustainable communities. While conceding the challenges associated with transforming communities into no-growth entities, Zovanyi concludes by presenting evidence that suggests that prospects for realizing states of no growth are greater than might be assumed.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136188886
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Requiem for the growth imperative
  8. 2 The American community as a growth machine
  9. 3 Rationales and strategies for stopping growth in America’s communities
  10. 4 The no-growth path to sustainability
  11. 5 Envisioning no-growth communities
  12. Epilogue: 10 difficult personal actions needed to save the world
  13. Notes
  14. Selected bibliography
  15. Index