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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks
Atmospheric Change and Air Quality
From: Toward Sustainable Communities
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Although atmospheric change is a complex technical issue, only a few basic concepts are required to comprehend its implications and design community strategies to reduce its threat. This chapter addresses the key areas of atmospheric change that concern communities — local air quality, potential climate change, and ozone layer depletion. The economic consequences of addressing climate change are then explored.
Contributors
Marc Roseland
Mark Roseland, Ph.D., MCIP, is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development (www.sfu.ca/cscd) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and is a professor in SFU’s Department of Geography. In 1990, as Research Director for the City of Vancouver’s Clouds of Change Task Force, he orchestrated one of the first comprehensive municipal responses to global atmospheric change and local air-quality problems. A former Editor of RAIN magazine, he was the North American Editor of the international journal Local Environment, published in association with ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, from its inception in 1995 until 2002, and continues to serve on its Editorial Advisory Board. His numerous publications include Eco-City Dimensions: Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet (New Society Publishers, 1997). He lectures internationally, advises communities and governments on sustainable development policy and planning, and participates actively in sustainable community development projects in Vancouver and elsewhere.
