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Preface | |
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Editor and Contributing Author | |
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Contributing Authors | |
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Introduction | |
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Sustainable Development and the United States | |
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Progress Toward Sustainability: A Report Card by the Contributing Authors | |
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Agenda for a Sustainable America by the Contributing Authors | |
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Six Areas of Greater Progress | |
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Local Governance and Sustainability: Major Progress, Significant Challenges | |
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Brownfields Development: From Individual Sites to Smart Growth | |
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Business and Industry: Transitioning to Sustainability | |
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Higher Education: More and More Laboratories for Inventing a Sustainable Future | |
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Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade Education: Fragmentary Progress in Equipping Students to Think and Act in a Challenging World | |
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Religion and Ethics Focused on Sustainability | |
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Consumption, Population, and Poverty | |
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Sustainable and Unsustainable Developments in the U.S. Energy System | |
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Materials: From High Consumption to More Sustainable Resource Use | |
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The Importance of Curbing and Ending Population Growth to Achieve Sustainability | |
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Poverty: Greening the Tax and Transfer System to Create More Opportunities | |
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Conservation and Management of Natural Resources | |
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Freshwater: Sustaining Use by Protecting Ecosystems | |
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Oceans and Estuaries: The Ocean Commissions' Unfulfilled Vision | |
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Air Quality: The Need to Replace Basic Technologies With Cleaner Alternatives | |
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Climate Change: The Unmet Obligation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions | |
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Biodiversity Conservation: An Unrealized Aspiration | |
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Sustainable Forestry: Moving From Concept to Consistent Practice | |
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Waste and Toxic Chemicals | |
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Toxic Chemicals and Pesticides: Not Yet Preventing Pollution | |
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Hazardous Waste and Superfund: Few Changes and Little Progress | |
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Municipal Solid Waste: Building Stronger Connections to Jobs and the Economy | |
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Land Use and Transportation | |
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Land Use: Blending Smart Growth With Social Equity and Climate Change Mitigation | |
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Transportation: Challenges and Choices | |
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International Trade, Finance, and Development Assistance | |
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International Trade: Sustainability as a Multilateral, Bilateral, and Regional Effort | |
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Official Development Assistance: Toward Funding for Sustainability | |
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Financing Sustainable Development | |
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Lead Poisoning and Pollution: Opportunities for Internationalized Solutions | |
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State and Federal Governance | |
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State Governance: Leadership on Climate Change | |
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Public Access to Information, Participation, and Justice: Forward and Backward Steps Toward an Informed and Engaged Citizenry | |
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National Governance: Still Stumbling Toward Sustainability | |
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Index | |