Explained: holistic and regenerative sustainability

In this post, I briefly explore the concept, principles, and practices of holistic urban productivity or regenerative sustainability as an emerging theory in Sustainable Community Development (SCD) and I introduce a conceptual framework for regenerative urban sustainability.  The full paper…

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Our new book has been launched!

Our new book has just been launched! See photos from our presentation during the Community Development Society Conference that took place in Portland OR in July 2023. Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments, 5th edition, by Mark Roseland,…

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Our new Sustainable Communities book is now available!

Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments, 5th edition Mark Roseland, Margaret Stout, and Maria Spiliotopoulou ISBN: 9780865719743 The book is now available to order as paperback and ebook. See photos from the book launch here and a one-minute…

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To what extent is sustainability addressed at urban scale and how aligned is it with Earth’s productive capacity?

New research article I co-authored, just published online by Elsevier’s Sustainable Cities and Society. Vigier, M., Ouellet-Plamondon, C. M., Spiliotopoulou, M., Moore, J., & Rees, W. E. (2023). To what extent is sustainability addressed at urban scale and how aligned…

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What is urban resilience? Is it compatible with sustainability?

Despite being an old concept for engineering, psychology, and disaster management, the famous natural scientist C.S. Holling introduced ecological and socio-ecological resilience in the early 1970s. He synthesized social and ecological theory to study and enhance adaptive (as opposed to…

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What is the sustainability continuum?

The position of an initiative on the weak/strong sustainability continuum is a debate that is rooted in economics but is now central to sustainability discourse, pertaining to both research and practice. The weaker-to-stronger sustainability debate is a spectrum between those…

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The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

Repost from The Lancet – originally published on October 20, 2021. Executive summary The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing updated, new, and improved indicators each year, the Lancet…

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