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  • The Rebirth of Urban Democracy

    by Kent E. Portney, Ken Thomson, Jeffrey M. Berry ...
    In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly romantic notion. Yet nothing is more crucial to the future of American democracy than to develop some way of spurring greater citizen participation. In this important book, Jeffrey Berry, Ken Portney, and Ken Thompson examine cities that have created systems of neighborhood government ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Sustainability

    by Kent E. Portney ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.The word “sustainability” has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply sourcing. But despite the apparent ubiquity of the term, the concept of sustainability has come to mean a number ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sustainability in America's Cities

    Creating the Green Metropolis

    by Ralph Bennett, Douglas Codiga, Nevin Cohen, Christopher De Sousa, Jonathan Fink, Amy Gardner, Aaron Golub, Jason Henderson, Gerrit Knaap, Lynn Mandarano, P. Timon McPhearson, Jennifer Obadia, Kent E. Portney, Madlen Simon, Kent Snyder, Cari Jean Varner, Jason Zeller ...
    "Sustainability" is more than the latest "green" buzzword. It represents a new way of viewing the interactions of human society and the natural world. Sustainability in America's Cities highlights how America's largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between development and environment.As sustainability rises to the top of public policy agendas in American cities, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Virtual Decisions

    Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities

    Edited by Steve Cohen, Kent E. Portney, Dean Rehberger, Carolyn Thorsen ...
    Developments in digital technologies--and in understandings of how best to use them--have altered teaching and learning environments, and stand to do so even more rapidly in the future. Virtual Decisions: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities focuses on the special issues related to the use of digital technologies in teaching the complex nature of social ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Case for Degrowth

    by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria ...
    The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a viable alternative? How can we halt the endless quest to grow global production and consumption and instead secure socio-ecological conditions that support lives worth living for all?In this compelling book, ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Enough Is Enough

    Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

    by Robert Dietz, Daniel W. O'Neill ...
    Strategies for transitioning to a steady-state economy that maximizes long-term well-being for all people.We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is not more but enough ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • True Wealth

    How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

    by Juliet B. Schor ...
    A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously enhance our lives and protect the planet. Schor shares examples of urban farmers, DIY renovators, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Earth for All

    A Survival Guide for Humanity

    by Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockstrom, Per Espen Stoknes ...
    The economic operating system keeps crashing. It’s time to upgrade to a new one.Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the cliff edge: Earth has crossed multiple planetary boundaries while widespread inequality is causing deep instabilities in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sustainability

    A History

    by Jeremy L. Caradonna ...
    The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable lifestyle." Seeming ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Creating a Learning Society

    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce C. Greenwald ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    "A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D."—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American DemocracySince its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

    by Wayne Ellwood ...
    This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible. It illustrates how economics based on degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive at new levels of environmental sustainability without having turning the clock back to the Dark Ages ... Read more

    $10.99 USD