The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability - Softcover

Bernard, Ted; Young, Jora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897408153 ISBN 13: 9781897408155

Publisher: New Catalyst Books, 2008

Synopsis

A remarkably upbeat account of a number of communities where collaboration among different factions and interest groups has led to breakthrough consensus on plans for achieving sustainability. The authors reveal the hopeful trend toward unanimous agreement on difficult local resource issues in forestry, rangeland, watershed and fisheries management.

About this title

About the Author:

Ted Bernard is a professor of environmental studies in the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. He has studied community-based conservation in Africa and North America for more than three decades. He lives on a ridge-top farm with his wife Donna Lofgren, their two Maine Coon cats, and an array of wild critters, which is located ten miles upstream from the Ohio River in the Shade River watershed.

Review:

The Ecology of Hope is a remarkably upbeat account of a number of communities where collaboration among different factions and interest groups has led to breakthrough consensus on plans for achieving sustainability. The authors reveal the hopeful trend toward unanimous agreement on difficult local resource issues in forestry, rangeland, watershed and fisheries management in which citizens, government, business and even one-time foes form exciting collaborative partnerships.

The Ecology of Hope recounts the stories of seven communities helping to blaze this new trail:

• the Menominee Indians of northern Wisconsin who pioneered a progressive forest management program;
• environmental restoration and biodiversity stewardship projects in Ohio, and the Chicago metropolitan area;
• ground-breaking consensus in a highly polarized Californian logging town, and a rangeland-dependent community on the New Mexico-Arizona border;
• a unique plan to develop tourism yet preserve traditional lifeways on a small Maine coast island; and
• an ambitious experiment to protect world class coastal resources on Virginia's eastern shore while promoting long-term, ecologically sensible commerce.

The authors weigh what has worked and what has not, and trace hopeful routes toward sustainable resource management applicable to communities everywhere.

(2008-07-23)

About this edition

• Publisher: New Catalyst Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1897408153
• ISBN 13: 9781897408155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240