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9781610916141

Quantified

Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy
  • ISBN-13: 9781610916141
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Joe S. Whitworth
  • Price: AUD $90.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/11/2015
  • Format: Hardback 247 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber: companies like these have come to embody innovation, efficiency, and success. How often is the environmental movement characterized in the same terms? Sadly, conservation is frequently seen as a losing battle, waged by well-meaning, but ultimately ineffective idealists. Joe Whitworth argues it doesn't have to be this way. In fact, it can't be this way if we are to maintain our economy, let alone our health or the planet's.

In Quantified, Whitworth draws lessons from the world's most tech-savvy, high-impact organizations to show how we can make real gains for the environment. The principles of his approach, dubbed quantified conservation, will be familiar to any thriving entrepreneur: situational awareness, bold outcomes, innovation and technology, data and analytics, and gain-focused investment. This no-nonsense strategy builds on the inspirational environmental work begun in the 1970s, while recognizing that the next economy will demand new solutions.

As President of The Freshwater Trust, Whitworth has put quantified conservation into practice, pioneering the model of a “do-tanka that is dramatically changing how rivers can get restored across the United States. The stories in Quantified highlight the most precious of resources'water'but they apply to any environmental effort. Whether in the realm of policy, agriculture, business, or philanthropy, Whitworth is charting a new course for conservation.
Introduction
Chapter 1. A New Conservation for a New Era
Chapter 2. Leading in a World of Permanent Scarcity
Chapter 3. Holding the Line is Holding Back Environmentalism
Chapter 4. Real Cowboys Fix Rivers
Chapter 5. It's the Environment, Stupid
Chapter 6. Throwing Money at the Problem (and Missing)
Chapter 7. Lessons from an Aussie Water Shock
Chapter 8. Getting Clear on the Big Muddy
Chapter 9. It's Now and It's Us
"By shifting away from procedure-based conflicts to outcome-based solutions, Quantified describes a paradigm that can work for production agriculture and the environment."
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