Growth Management for a Sustainable Future: Ecological Sustainability as the New Growth Management Focus for the 21st Century

by Gabor Zovanyi

Book Overview

Previous books on growth management in the United States favor balanced growth, which suggests that growth and environmental protection represent equally legitimate objectives. Taking issue with the balanced growth position, this book argues that further growth is unsustainable and that growth management must focus on ensuring ecological sustainability. The book opens with the arguments supporting current global limits to growth, and then shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275973492
• ISBN13: 9780275973490
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great that there are folks willing to tell it like it is!

The entire membership of the American Planning Association, every "professional" practicing planner, and every elected official from the local on down to the federal level should read this book. Current growth management efforts that are popping up all over the U.S. serve only as other examples of how our society continues to ignore the real roots of our problems. Growth management does not address carrying capacity or sustainability, instead it is another clever "band-aid" solution to societal ills. Until folks wake up, take action, clean-up corporate America and its destruction of all living organisms (yes, that includes humans!), and their own comsumptive and reproductive practices the picture for the future will only continue to look worse. Essentially, Zovanyi's book is a call for action and a challenge to anyone engaged in the planning profession to dare try anything different than its constant perpetuation of the "there's infinite growth" status quo camp of bureaucrats and special interest money from irresponsible corporations and their greedy businessmen.