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Global Sustainable Communities Handbookis a guide for understanding and complying with the various international codes, methods, and legal hurtles surrounding the creation of sustainable communities all over the world. The book provides an introduction to sustainable development, technology and infrastructure outlines, codes, standards, and guidelines written by experts from across the globe.Includes methods for the green use of natural resources in built communitiesClearly explains the most cutting edge green technologiesProvides a common approach to building green communities Covers green practices from architecture to construction

4 -- Infrastructures for Green, Smart and Healthy CommunitiesOVERVIEW; CONCEPTUALIZING THE INTERNAL-EXTERNAL NEXUS OF THE OBOR STRATEGY; FIRST PERIOD: JOINING REGIONAL AND GLOBAL DIVISION OF LABOR; SECOND PERIOD: THE EMERGENCE OF CHINA-CENTERED REGIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER; THE THIRD PERIOD (OR "WAVE"): THE OBOR INITIATIVE AND CHINA'S INTERNAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING; PARTNERSHIPS TO CREATE CIVIC MARKETS IN "GREEN DEVELOPMENT"; Consider China Today Moving Ahead Into a Smart, Green, and Healthy Nation; OVERVIEW: VIRTUAL POWER PLANT; SOLAR ENERGY; WIND ENERGY.

Front Cover -- Sustainable Cities and Communities Design Handbook -- Sustainable Cities and Communities Design Handbook: Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Editor -- 1 - Introduction -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 2 - The Green Industrial Revolution -- HOW COMMUNITIES AND NATIONS MOVE AHEAD -- WHAT IS A RENEWABLE ENERGY POWER SOURCE? -- DEREGULATION BENEFITS: MYTHS ABOUT ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY AS CONSERVATION IS NEEDED TOO -- Better Investment Decisions -- Politicized Priorities Excluded -- THE ISSUE OF DEREGULATING AGILE ENERGY SYSTEMS -- CONCLUSION: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AN AGILE ENERGY SYSTEM -- APPENDIX A: THE DANISH CASE FOR THE GREEN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -- APPENDIX B: E-MAIL SURVEILLANCE DATA ON ENRON -- APPENDIX C: FROM CENTRAL POWER GRID TO LOCAL DISTRIBUTED POWER SYSTEMS -- APPENDIX D: SMART GRID THAT INCLUDES LOCAL DISTRIBUTED POWER AND RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 3 - Cross-Disciplinary Scientific Foundation for Sustainability: Qualitative Economics -- THE PARADIGM SHIFT: ECONOMICS AS A SCIENCE -- SUBJECTIVISM PARADIGM: LIFEWORLD PERSPECTIVE AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM -- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- Phenomenology: The Tradition of the Lifeworld Perspective -- SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: IN THE SUBJECTIVIST THEORETICAL PARADIGM -- TRANSFORMATIONAL LINGUISTICS: ECONOMIC RULES OF FORMALISM IN BUSINESS PRACTICES -- QUALITATIVE ECONOMICS: TOWARD A SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS -- Organizing: Fitting Together of Lines of Activities and Actions -- Organizing: Dynamism of the Firm -- Intersubjectivity and the Organizational Approach -- The Actors' Experiential Space: Organizational Lifeworld -- Constituting of the Organizational Activities and of the "Firm" -- The Actors' Development Capability -- Organizing and the Organizational Paradigm.

A guide to understanding and complying with the various international codes, methods, and legal hurdles surrounding the creation of sustainable communities all over the world. Provides an introduction to sustainable development, technology and infrastructure outlines, codes, and standards

This book "focuses on how the field of economics must change and incorporate environment, energy, health and new technologies that are called externalities for stopping and reversing climate change." - P. 4 of cover

This book "focuses on how the field of economics must change and incorporate environment, energy, health and new technologies that are called externalities for stopping and reversing climate change."--Page 4 of cover

Written as a professional reference book and a case textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of disciplines, Sustainable Communities contains detailed case studies of communities in U.S.A., Europe, and Asia that have become sustainable. In most cases, these communities are either off the central power grid or will be by 2010, and are examples of what regions, cities, towns, and communities - such as colleges, businesses and shopping malls - can do to become sustainable. The book provides a vast amount of materials and data including design, and the legal, economic, and technologic aspects of how environments become sustainable. It provides the general public with a multi-disciplinary perspective and understanding of sustainable development from actual cases, along with some well-established resources and tools. - BOOK JACKET