Hope and Hard Times
| Communities, Collaboration and Sustainability
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| By (composer) Ted Bernard
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More than a dozen years ago, Ted Bernard travelled to nine communities across
the United States to meet residents who were working collaboratively to solve
natural resource conflicts. While there may have been different perspectives
over process, their common goal was to achieve higher levels of sustainability
as vibrant communities. He visited places as diverse as tiny one-mile-square
Monhegan Island in Maine and cities as large as Chicago and Chattanooga, and
with Jora Young, wrote about their findings in 1997 in The Ecology of Hope.
Now Bernard has caught up with these communities again to discover their progress, and see
what a difference their collaborative conservation has made in 15 years. Hope
and Hard Times chronicles that journey; the successes, the speed bumps, and
the remarkable tenacity and persistence of the partnerships and initiatives
driving change during exceedingly hard times. Overall, community-based
sustainability initiatives have proved resilient, despite the down-spiraling
of the global economy and the looming problems of global climate change. Their
quest points to the need for new perceptions of nature and of humankind, more
guidance from nature, and less consumption and materialism. They offer advice
on how to live on pieces of land without spoiling them.
Offering hopeful roadmaps for other communities working toward a sustainable future, this book will appeal to community activists, natural resource professionals, educators, and environmentalists.
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| About the Contributor(s)
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 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.
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Paperback - 336 pages
Width: 6 Inches x Height: 9 Inches
Weight: 465 Grams
BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865716544
Pub. Date: 2010-01-01
$CAD 19.95
$USD 19.95
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