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Título: Nature-Friendly Communities Habitat Protection And Land Use Planning | ||
Autor: Cara Snyder, Chris Duerksen | Precio: $553.00 | |
Editorial: Island Press | Año: 2005 | |
Tema: Ecologia, Comunidad, Biodiversidad | Edición: 1ª | |
Sinopsis | ISBN: 9781559638654 | |
Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in America's growing communities. Addressing the crucial issues of sprawl, open space, and political realities, Chris Duerksen and Cara Snyder explain the most effective steps that communities can take to protect nature.
The book: documents the broad range of benefits, including economic impacts, resulting from comprehensive biodiversity protection efforts; identifies and disseminates information on replicable best community practices; establishes benchmarks for evaluating community biodiversity protection programs. Nine comprehensive case studies of communities explain how nature protection programs have been implemented. From Austin and Baltimore to Tucson and Minneapolis, the authors explore how different cities and counties have taken bold steps to successfully protect natural areas. Examining program structure and administration, land acquisition strategies and sources of funding, habitat restoration programs, social impacts, education efforts, and overall results, these case studies lay out perfect examples that other communities can easily follow. Among the case study sites are Sanibel Island, Florida; Austin, Texas; Baltimore County, Maryland; Charlotte Harbor, Florida; and Teton County, Wyoming. Nature-Friendly Communities offers a useful overview of the increasing number of communities that have established successful nature protection programs and the significant benefits those programs provide. It is an important new work for public officials, community activists, and anyone concerned with understanding or implementing local or regional biodiversity protection efforts. The Authors CHRIS DUERKSEN is managing director of Clarion Associates, a Denver-based land use consulting firm. He is the founder, president, and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute. CARA SNYDER is an independent consultant and writer; she was formerly an associate with Clarion Associates. Also of interest from Island Press: Drafting a Conservation BlueprintPlanning for Biodiversity Biographies CHRIS DUERKSEN is managing director of Clarion Associates, a Denver-based land use consulting firm. He is the founder, president, and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute. CARA SNYDER is an independent consultant and writer; she was formerly an associate with Clarion Associates. Quotes ?The greening of local government is the most exciting conservation trend of our time. The profiles in this book are an invitation to begin changing your community.ÿ --Bruce Babbitt ?For the legion of readers who need no more convincing that the environment is in serious trouble, this book of American ¦can do, how to? success stories will be a relief as well as a rousing inspiration for like action.ÿ --Edward O. Wilson ?Damaging development practices cause environmental problems. But human communities don?t have to be destructive. Nature-Friendly Communities explains how to put people and places in harmony. It contains sensible, useful information that will conserve habitat for future generations while improving the qualitiy of life for people from downtown to suburbs.ÿ --Govenor Bill Richarson Table Of Contents Acknowledgments.Introduction Chapter 1: The Benefits of Nature ProtectionChapter 2: Key Program Elements and Best Tools Major Case StudiesChapter 3: Austin, Texas: Two for the Price of One_Protecting Water Quality and Habitat through Land Acquisition Chapter 4: Baltimore County, Maryland: Using the Entire Toolkit for Habitat ProtectionChapter 5: Dane County, Wisconsin: Stopping Sprawl and Promoting InfillChapter 6. Eugene, Oregon: Shining Star of Wetlands PreservationChapter 7: Fort Collins and Larimer County, Colorado: A Tale of Two JurisdictionsChapter 8: Pima County, Arizona: Planning for and Investing in Habitat Protection Chapter 9: Placer County, California: Leaving a LegacyChapter 10: Sanibel, Florida: Do Enjoy, Don't DestroyChapter 11: Twin Cities Region, Minnesota: Toward Regional Habitat Conservation Focused Case StudiesChapter 12: Bath Township, Ohio: Riparian Overlay DistrictChapter 13: Charlotte Harbor, Florida: Ambitious Regional Critical Area Protection ProgramChapter 14: Chicago Wilderness: Biodiversity Recovery PlanChapter 15: DeKalb County, Georgia: Greenspace ProgramChapter 16: Farmington Valley, Connecticut: A Valley's Biodiversity ProjectChapter 17: King County, Washington: Benchmark Program Chapter 18: Pittsford, New York: Greenprint for a Town's FutureChapter 19: Powell County, Montana: Rural County Wildlife ProtectionChapter 20: Teton County, Wyoming: Natural Resource Overlay DistrictChapter 21: Traverse Bay Area, Michigan: New Designs for GrowthChapter 22: Loudoun County, Virginia: Green Infrastructure Meets Green Money Conclusion Index Acknowledgments. Introduction Chapter 1: The Benefits of Nature Protection Chapter 2: Key Program Elements and Best Tools Major Case Studies Chapter 3: Austin, Texas: Two for the Price of One_Protecting Water Quality and Habitat through Land Acquisition Chapter 4: Baltimore County, Maryland: Using the Entire Toolkit for Habitat Protection Chapter 5: Dane County, Wisconsin: Stopping Sprawl and Promoting Infill Chapter 6. Eugene, Oregon: Shining Star of Wetlands Preservation Chapter 7: Fort Collins and Larimer County, Colorado: A Tale of Two Jurisdictions Chapter 8: Pima County, Arizona: Planning for and Investing in Habitat Protection Chapter 9: Placer County, California: Leaving a Legacy Chapter 10: Sanibel, Florida: Do Enjoy, Don't Destroy Chapter 11: Twin Cities Region, Minnesota: Toward Regional Habitat Conservation Focused Case Studies Chapter 12: Bath Township, Ohio: Riparian Overlay District Chapter 13: Charlotte Harbor, Florida: Ambitious Regional Critical Area Protection Program Chapter 14: Chicago Wilderness: Biodiversity Recovery Plan Chapter 15: DeKalb County, Georgia: Greenspace Program Chapter 16: Farmington Valley, Connecticut: A Valley's Biodiversity Project Chapter 17: King County, Washington: Benchmark Program Chapter 18: Pittsford, New York: Greenprint for a Town's Future Chapter 19: Powell County, Montana: Rural County Wildlife Protection Chapter 20: Teton County, Wyoming: Natural Resource Overlay District Chapter 21: Traverse Bay Area, Michigan: New Designs for Growth Chapter 22: Loudoun County, Virginia: Green Infrastructure Meets Green Money Conclusion Index |