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Island Press began with a simple idea: knowledge is power—the power to imagine a better future and find ways for getting us there. Founded in 1984, Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems.

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Towards 0-Impact Buildings and Built Environments

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A compilation of key notes and best papers of the 2010 Sustainable Building Euregional Conference.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Lawyers, Swamps, and Money

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Sustainability in America's Cities

Creating the Green Metropolis

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This book highlights how America's largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between development and environment.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Architecture of Community

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A seminal work by a renowned architect and planner that provides a contemporary roadmap for designing or completing today's fragmented communities.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Rising Sea

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The authoritative book on sea level rise and its coastal consequences.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

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This provocative and engaging work emerges from Calthorpe’s belief that, just as the last fifty years produced massive changes in our culture, economy and environment, the next fifty will generate changes of an even more profound nature.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Biophilic Cities

Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning

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A biophilic city, says Beatley, is a place that learns from nature and incorporates natural forms and images into its buildings and cityscapes. Biophilic Cities outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, and provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements – from the building to the regional level – around the world.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Ecological Economics, Second Edition

Principles and Applications

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Ecological Economics is an introductory-level textbook for an emerging paradigm that addresses this flaw in much economic thought

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Sprawl Repair Manual

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The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economical, energy- and resource-efficient patterns, from the region and the community to the block and the individual building.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Cities for People

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Renowned architect and urban planner Jan Gehl explains the methods and tools he has used to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into safe and sustainable cities for people – something he has helped do in Copenhagen, Melbourne, and New York City.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Principles of Brownfield Regeneration

Cleanup, Design, and Reuse of Derelict Land

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The first book to provide an accessible introduction to the design, policy, and technical issues related to redevelopment of "brownfields" – idle property whose development or improvement is impaired by contamination.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Design with Microclimate

The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space

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Arguing that a comfortable microclimate is the foundation of well-used outdoor places, Robert Brown provides useful guidelines for dealing with climate data, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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5 Easy Pieces

The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems

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5 Easy Pieces features five contributions demonstrating the massive impacts of modern industrial fisheries on marine ecosystems.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities

Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World

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If widely used, these rules would lead to a much more livable world for future generations – a world that is not unlike the better parts of our own.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Life in a Bottle

The Reality Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water

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Authored by one of the world's foremost experts on water, this lively critique exposes the corporate misdeeds in the bottled water industry within the context of growing water shortages, and possible crisis.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River

Nature and Power in the People’s Republic of China

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This book brings big geopolitical issues to life through the narrative of a particular region and its people.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Modeling the Environment, Second Edition

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Modeling the Environment was the first textbook in an emerging field—the modeling techniques that allow managers and researchers to see in advance the consequences of actions and policies in environmental management. This new edition brings the book thoroughly up to date and reaffirms its status as the leading introductory text on the subject.
System dynamics is one of the most widely used methods of modeling. The fundamental principles of this approach are demonstrated here with a wide range of examples, including geohydrology, population biology, epidemiology, and economics. The applications demonstrate the transferability of the systems approach across disciplines, across spatial scales, and across time scales. All of the models are implemented with stock and flow software programs such as Stella and Vensim, which are easy for students to learn and use.
Visit http://www.wsu.edu/~forda/AA2nd.html for valuable classroom materials.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Building an Emerald City

A Guide to Creating Green Building Policies and Programs

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  • Copyright year: 2009
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Public Produce

The New Urban Agriculture

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  • Copyright year: 2009
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Floodplain Management

A New Approach for a New Era

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Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological systems with societal capabilities.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Green Building Trends

Europe

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Megaregions

Planning for Global Competitiveness

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  • Copyright year: 2009
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Resilient Cities

Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change

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  • Copyright year: 2009
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Urban Transformation

Understanding City Form and Design

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  • Copyright year: 2008
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Creating Vibrant Public Spaces

Streetscape Design in Commercial and Historic Districts

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  • Copyright year: 2008
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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems

Principles and Practices

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  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Option of Urbanism

Investing in a New American Dream

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Shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

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A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation brings together knowledge and experience from conservation practitioners and experts around the world to help readers understand the global challenge of conserving biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems.

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Earth in Mind

On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

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The crises we face, noted educator David Orr explains, is one of mind, perception, and values. It is, first and foremost, an educational challenge.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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