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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aberley, Doug, ed. Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 1993. This informative guide explains the use of community-based mapping techniques for understanding bioregions. ———, ed. Futures by Design: The Practice of Ecological Planning. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 1994. An accessible anthology on ecological planning methods. Adey, Walter. Dynamic Aquaria: Building Living Ecosystems. San Diego: Academic Press, 1991. A wonderful handbook for building aquatic microcosms. Alexander, Christopher, et al. A Pattern Language. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977. This design classic examines the patterns that make for good building at levels of scale ranging from furniture details to cities. ———. The Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979. The themes of A Pattern Language are further developed. ———. The Nature of Order. Berkeley, Calif: The Center for Environmental Structure, 2003–4. An extended meditation on the patterns of wholeness within nature and design. Allen, T. F. H., and Thomas W. Hoekstra. Toward a Unified Ecology. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1992. An overview of ecology from a scale-linking perspective. Altieri, Miguel. Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1987. An integration of traditional farming with contemporary ecological science. Badiner, Allan Hunt, ed. Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and

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