Description
Book SynopsisThe housing bomb is ticking, and our choice is clear-change our approach or feel the blast.
Trade ReviewThe Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society explores common fallacies in thinking about housing and offers many alternatives, and is a pick for any social issues collection, especially those strong in urban research. Midwest Book Review The Housing Bomb is an eloquent expose of the social and environmental ills associated with western housing trends. -- Martin Brueckner Pacific Conservation Biology Any reader with an interest in economics, sustainable business, and ecology will find this book well worth reading and debating. -- Rick Docksai World Future Society
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Household Dynamics and Their Contribution to the Housing Bomb
2. How Home Ownership Both Emancipates and Enslaves Us
3. "Housaholism" in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
4. Household Dynamics and Giant Panda Conservation
5. Defusing the Housing Bomb with Your House
6. Individual and Local Strategies for Defusing the Housing Bomb
7. Large-Scale Strategies for Defusing the Housing Bomb
Conclusion
Notes
Index
