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GEOG 4771

Sustainable Communities

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

2024–2025

Topics

  • Introduction and Fundamentals First Day of Class
  • Sustainable Community Development
  • Making Community Policy
  • Cultivating Greener, Food-Secure Communities
  • Water and Sewage
  • Waste Reduction and Recycling
  • Energy Efficiency and Renewables
  • Transportation Planning & Traffic Management
  • Land Use, Urban Form & Community Design
  • Housing and Community Development
  • Community (Local) Economic Development
  • Communities Integrating Sustainability
  • Governing Sustainable Communities

Readings

  • Required: Roseland, Mark. (2012). Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and theirGovernments,4thEdition. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers. ISBN: 13: 978-0-86571-7114 (paperback)
  • Recommended: Mazmanian, Daniel and Michael Kraft. (1999). Toward Sustainable Communities: TransitionandTransformationinEnvironmentalPolicy. London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. ISBN: 0-262-63194-6 (paperback)
Winter 2021

Topics

  • Introduction and Fundamentals First Day of Class
  • Sustainable Community Development
  • Making Community Policy
  • Cultivating Greener, Food-Secure Communities
  • Water and Sewage
  • Waste Reduction and Recycling
  • Energy Efficiency and Renewables
  • Transportation Planning & Traffic Management
  • Land Use, Urban Form & Community Design
  • Housing and Community Development
  • Community (Local) Economic Development
  • Communities Integrating Sustainability
  • Governing Sustainable Communities

Readings

  • Required: Roseland, Mark. (2012). Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and theirGovernments,4thEdition. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers. ISBN: 13: 978-0-86571-7114 (paperback)
  • Recommended: Mazmanian, Daniel and Michael Kraft. (1999). Toward Sustainable Communities: TransitionandTransformationinEnvironmentalPolicy. London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. ISBN: 0-262-63194-6 (paperback)
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