Land-Use Planning For Sustainable Development 2nd Ed.

Description: Thirteen years ago, the first edition of Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development examined the question: is the environmental doomsday scenario inevitable? It then presented the underlying concepts of sustainable land-use planning and an array of alternatives for modifying conventional planning for and regulation of the development of land. This second edition captures current success stories, showcasing creative, resilient strategies for fundamentally changing the way we alter our landscape. See What's New in the Second Edition: Explains the relationship between innovative land-use planning and nature's impartial, inviolate biophysical principles that govern the outcome of all planning Focuses on how decision making that flows from and aligns with nature's biophysical principles benefits all generations by consciously protecting and maintaining social-environmental sustainability Proposes an alternative framework for municipal comprehensive plans framing the community as a living system Written by two experienced professionals in sustainable development planning, the second edition revisits the successes as well as barriers to progress associated with establishing new community development models, such as EcoMunicipalities. The authors emphasize the necessity and potency of citizen involvement and initiatives. They provide proposals for alternative approaches that rest on lessons from history as well as the research, wisdom, and vision of many individuals and communities whose work they have studied. The book supplies a sturdy platform on which to continually build and innovate progress in sustainable land use planning.

Review: "A comprehensive and visionary approach to land-use planning that grounds the unfolding of human communities and economies within an underlying matrix of living systems. This book should help reinvigorate the planning profession at a time of unprecedented change, complexity, and need for resilience." -Stuart Cowan, Bainbridge Graduate Institute "Silberstein and Maser help us imagine a world in which life is valued more than money and the purpose of business is to serve people, community, and nature." -David Korten, Board chair for YES! Magazine and author, Agenda for a New Economy

Contents: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE CONCEPT The Elements of Sustainability Human Relationships Summary Endnotes TRUE COMMUNITY IS FOUNDED ON A SENSE OF PLACE, HISTORY, AND TRUST Community History Money Versus Wealth The Value of Social Capital Reweaving the Social Fabric Grieving for Our Environmental/Social Losses Of Leisure and Community Summary Endnotes NATURE'S INVIOLABLE BIOPHYSICAL PRINCIPLES AND LAND USE PLANNING Principle 1-Everything Is a Relationship Principle 2-All Relationships Are Inclusive and Productive of an Outcome Principle 3-The Only True Investment in Our Global Ecosystem Is Energy from Sunlight Principle 4-All Systems Are Defined by Their Function Principle 6-All Relationships Are Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops Principle 7-All Relationships Have One or More Trade-Offs Principle 8-Change Is a Process Of Eternal Becoming Principle 9-All Relationships Are Irreversible Principle 10-All Systems Are Based on Composition, Structure, and Function Principle 11-All Systems Have Cumulative Effects, Lag Periods, and Thresholds Principle 12-All Systems Are Cyclical, but None Are Perfect Circles Principle 13-Systemic Change Is Based on Self-Organized Criticality Principle 14-Dynamic Disequilibrium Rules All Systems Summary Endnotes PLANNING FOR A LOCAL LIVING ECONOMY: REINVENTING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Living Economy Defined Community as Ecosytem Comprehensive Plan for a Local Living Economy Summary Endnotes PLANNING FOR A LOCAL LIVING ECONOMY: NATURE'S BIOPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS Protecting Nature's Free Services Protecting Diversity through Constraints to Development and Land Use Planning The Misguided Role of Today's Planning for Transportation When A Community's Population Begins to Destroy Its Quality of Life In The End, It Is a Question Of Biological Carrying Capacity Versus Cultural Carrying Capacity Summary Endnotes REFRAMING THE PROBLEM All of Life Is Cyclic We Make What We Are Humankind in Amnesia Competing Instincts and Ecological Unconscious Removing the Blame Factor Summary Endnotes MODELING THE PLANNING PROCESS AFTER NATURE Zero Waste Diversity within the Planning Process Strengthening The Flow of Energy Through Self-Organization Free-Flowing Communication Open Space Planning, an Alternative Process Step-By-Step: A Suggested Process for Developing a Comprehensive Plan Summary Endnotes IMPLEMENTING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Zoning Ordinances Transitioning to Local Living Economy Land Use Practices Other Regulatory Approaches to Land Use Control Non-Regulatory Methods of Controlling Land Use Summary Endnotes MONITORING PROGRESS Change and Our Perception of It Creating Measures of Progress Outputs Vs. Outcomes Summary Endnotes ONGOING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT-CITIZENS AS PLANNERS Knowing Our Audience What Do We Need To Be Communicating and How Is a "Paradigm Shift" Occurring? Barriers to Overcome Summary Endnotes