Author(s): Claire Freeman and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (eds)

NZ Non Fiction

The sustainable development of communities, regions, nations and the planet has benn increasingly debated since the Rio Summit of 1992. Issues sucha s urban form, the relationship between urban areas and their rural hinterland, urban versus rural lifestyles, modes of transport, social justice, urban renewal and growing multicultural communities are all relevant. This book brings tohether the work of some of the people whose job it is to explore the concept of sustaianability and its application to New Zealand settlements.