Hope and hard times
Subtitle: communities, collaboration and sustainability
By: Ted Bernard.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gabriola Island, BC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780865716544
Subjects: Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- Case studies; Community development -- United States -- Case studies; Sustainable development -- United States -- Case studies; Sustainable living -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "More than a dozen years ago, Ted Bernard travelled to nine communities across the United States to meet residents who were working collaboratively to solve natural resource conflicts. While there may have been different perspectives over process, their common goal was to achieve higher levels of sustainability as vibrant communities. He visited places as diverse as tiny one-mile-square Monhegan Island in Maine and cities as large as Chicago and Chattanooga, and with Jora Young, wrote about their findings in 1997 in The Ecology of Hope." "Now Bernard has caught up with these communities again to discover their progress, and see what a difference their collaborative conservation has made in 15 years. Hope and Hard Times chronicles that journey; the successes, the speed bumps, and the remarkable tenacity and persistence of the partnerships and initiatives driving change during exceedingly hard times. Overall, community-based sustainability initiatives have proved resilient, despite the down-spiraling of the global economy and the looming problems of global climate change. Their quest points to the need for new perceptions of nature and of humankind, more guidance from nature, and less consumption and materialism. They offer advice on how to live on pieces of land without spoiling them."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-311) and index.