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The housing bomb is ticking, and our choice is clear-change our approach or feel the blast.

Trade Review
The 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 Contents

Acknowledgments
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

The Housing Bomb

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 24 December 2013
      ISBN-13 9781421410654
      978-1421410654
      ISBN-10 1421410656
      Also in:
      City and town planning: architectural aspects Climate change Housing and homelessness

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The housing bomb is ticking, and our choice is clear-change our approach or feel the blast.

      Trade Review
      The 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 Contents

      Acknowledgments
      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

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