New Publication: Small and Rural Local Government Environmental Sustainability in Cascadia

Tamara Krawchenko, one of our co-researchers has recently co-authored a new book, Small and Rural Local Government Environmental Sustainability Plans, Programs and Policies in Cascadia.

This book is the third edition of a collective effort to understand and apply current conceptualizations of sustainability to a study of state and local government. It is an attempt to focus attention on a basic understanding of the time-tested institutions and guiding principles likely to take society and governance towards greater advancement. This work is, however, tempered by a developing understanding of smart growth — growth in productive capacity, quality of life and social justice that does not necessitate large-scale destructive or extractive activity. The growth sought produces widespread mutual benefit, is prudent in design and thoughtful in execution. The growth in question here is mindful of the past yet builds better lives and futures for our posterity.

Click HERE for a copy of her chapter,