Green Plans: Greenprint For Sustainability (Our Sustainable Future),New

Product Description Green Plans are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. Huey D. Johnson provides the first detailed and understandable examination of the theory, implementation, and performance of green plans in the Netherlands, Canada, and New Zealand. Plans being considered in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, and the European Community are also discussed. Green plans will serve future generations as models of creative collaboration between government and business. Review 'Green Plans examines strategies utilized in several countries for dealing with sustainable development. 'Green Plans' are comprehensive schemes requiring extensive dedication and a largescale integrated commitment by government. Johnson maintains that America's approach to environmental problems has usually involved a narrow focus on individual issues that sometimes comes too late, whereas comprehensive and integrated green plans involve all of society. . . . This is not another 'doom and gloom' depiction of the environment with extensive fingerpointing at industry, but is instead a balanced, wellwritten argument for a mutually beneficial plan for enabling sustainable development while protecting environmental quality.'Choice'In this plainly written manual, Johnson . . . offers green planning (developing comprehensive and integrated plans to protect and sustain the environment) as a practical alternative to the hopelessness and sporadic reaction to single issues with which we face continuing environmental degradation. . . . Johnson argues that green plans work because, unlike laws or regulations that address specific issues, they provide a framework, goals, and priorities for longterm sustainable resource management.'Library Journal'This book is quite informative. It would be useful for anyone seeking (detailed) knowledge about designing a 'greenprint for sustainability.' The more technical emphasis, in combination with a casestudy approach, make it quite suitable for public officials, such as environmental planners/managers, and for beginning students of environmental policy. . . . As one of the first books to deal with the development, implementation, and performance of green plans, this is certainly a welcome addition to the literature relating to the operationalisation and implementation of the concept of sustainability.'Environmental Politics'Green plans can solve environmental problems for the world, the nation, businesses, labor, environmentalists, future generationsfor everyone. They show what planning can and should be, and rescue the concept of planning from the scrapheap of history. Green plans are comprehensive, integrated, and largescalethree traits that are key to solving environmental problems. . . . [This book is] clearlywritten and important.'Future Survey'Green plans are comprehensive, integrated and largescale national environmental strategies. H. J. Johnson shows us what Green Plans are and what they are not. His examples of pioneering countries, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Canada are very convincing. He shows how those very different countries have developed innovative Green Plans, how they translated the concept of sustainability in practical strategies and action plans. His personal experience, as head of California's Resources Agency, from 1977 to 1982, in developing a comprehensive resource strategy, called Investing For Prosperity (IFP) gave him a basic understanding of Green Plans. He gives us a very good overall view of Green Plans, their ingredients for success, their principles and techniques and the new relationship needed between government and business. His clear vision for the United States should be read by all politicians and concerned citizens. It is still very actual. Of the many books published in environmental protection and sustainable development,