| 期刊全称 | America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions | | 期刊简称 | Surviving the 21st C | | 影响因子2023 | John W. Day,Charles Hall | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Explains the emerging factors that will make cities and regions more or less livable in the new century.Shows where your city or region ranks on a “sustainability” map of the United States.Lists the p | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | This book takes you on a unique journey through American history, taking time to consider the forces that shaped the development of various cities and regions, and arrives at an unexpected conclusion regarding sustainability. From the American Dream to globalization to the digital and information revolutions, we assume that humans have taken control of our collective destinies in spite of potholes in the road such as the Great Recession of 2007-2009. However, these attitudes were formed during a unique 100-year period of human history in which a large but finite supply of fossil fuels was tapped to feed our economic and innovation engine. Today, at the peak of the Oil Age, the horizon looks different. Cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas are situated where water and other vital ecological services are scarce, and the enormous flows of resources and energy that were needed to create the megalopolises of the 20th century will prove unsustainable. Climate change is a reality,and regional impacts will become increasingly severe. Economies such as Las Vegas, which are dependent on discretionary income and buffeted by climate change, are already suffering the fate of the pro | | Pindex | Book 2016 |
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