Part OneThe Transition from Our “New Development” Past to Our “Restorative Development” Future
Restorative development: A mode of development that increases the health or value of existing assets without (or with minimal) destruction of other assets, and without significantly increasing the restored assets’ geographic or ecological footprints.
—one of several working definitions (by author)
The goal of Part One is to familiarize readers with the general nature of restorative development and its underlying history, dynamics, drivers, and cycles.
This section offers generalized, big-picture insights designed to help organizational and governmental leaders understand the basic nature and underlying causes of the dominant macrotrend of the twenty-first ...
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