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  • 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

  • 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 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

    $35.29 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