Paying for Growth, Prospering from Development
"There are plenty of ways to develop an economy without growth"
"Successful communities are those that accept neither unquestioned growth nor the inevitability of decline"
For a thoughtful and well researched paper from the Rocky Mountain Institute explaining how sustainable development offers jobs without the problems of growth, whilst primarily physical growth (i.e a subdivision tract) has a negative economic and social impact on a community, just log on to this web page.
www.rim.org/images/other/EconRenew/ER96-15_Paying4Growth.pdf
"Successful communities are those that accept neither unquestioned growth nor the inevitability of decline"
For a thoughtful and well researched paper from the Rocky Mountain Institute explaining how sustainable development offers jobs without the problems of growth, whilst primarily physical growth (i.e a subdivision tract) has a negative economic and social impact on a community, just log on to this web page.
www.rim.org/images/other/EconRenew/ER96-15_Paying4Growth.pdf
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Just a quick note from down in Iowa, USA. Keep up the good work you're doing to get the word out that physical growth does not mean prosperity or improvement.
RMI has a number of other great articles on that topic as well as on sustainable development. The latter of course can help a community improve without expansion.
I run a site here with much the same focus as yours, trying to help preserve our two classic small towns and surrounding open space. It's at http://www.smalltownproject.org/ and contains many links on those and related topics.
Best of luck!
John Feeney
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