Pragmatic Sustainability: Theoretical and

In the short time since the turn of the millennium, the notion of "sustainable development" has been distilled to the specific battle against climate change. The tools for waging this battle are largely technoscientific and linked to market-based strategies. Such grand plans suggest a simple technological fix is not only possible, but profitable.

Steven A. Moore is Bartlett Cocke Professor of Architecture and Planning, Director of the Graduate Program for Sustainable Design and Co-Founder of the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development, Austin, TX.

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xi
About the Authors	p. xiii
Introduction: Pragmatic Sustainability	p. 1
The Struggle to Define Terms	p. 13
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 1	p. 15
What Sustainability Is (and What It Isn't)	p. 16
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 2	p. 30
Equity: The Forgotten E in Sustainable Development	p. 31
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 3	p. 50
Sustainable Development: Complexity and the Problem of Balance	p. 51
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 4	p. 67
In Search of Green Knowledge: A Cognitive Approach to Sustainable Development	p. 68
Technological Cultures	p. 81
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 5	p. 83
Renewal and Resistance: The Quest for Sustainability in the Hudson River Valley	p. 84
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 6	p. 104
Engineering Sustainable Technologies	p. 106
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 7	p. 116
Beyond Japonisme: The Adaptive Pragmatism of Japanese Urbanism	p. 117
Sustainability and Place	p. 133
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 8	p. 135
The Moral Journey of Environmentalism: From Wilderness to Place	p. 136
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 9	p. 149
Regionalism, Place, Specificity, and Sustainable Design	p. 150
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 10	p. 169
Natural Allies: Historic Preservation and Sustainable Design	p. 170
Sustainability and Cities	p. 187
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 11	p. 189
Planning for Sustainability	p. 190
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 12	p. 214
Full Circle? Public Responsibility versus Privatization of Water Supplies in the United States	p. 215
Civil Society, Industry, and Regulation	p. 233
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 13	p. 235
A Political Economy of Sustainability: Alternative Pathways and Industrial Innovation	p. 236
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 14	p. 259
Bringing Corporate Stakeholders to the Table in Collaborative Ecosystem Management	p. 260
Editor's Introduction to Chapter 15	p. 275
Incommensurable Paradigms: Values and the Environment	p. 276
Index	p. 289
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