The Restoration Economy: The Greatest New Growth Frontier : Immediate & Emerging Opportunities for Businesses, Communities & Investors [Anglais] [Relié]

Any companies or consultants looking for new markets must read The Restoration Economy!

This is a landmark work, extremely well written and developed

Although some trillion dollars worth of restorative activity is going on in the world annually, it isn’t presently perceived as an industry, or as any kind of whole. Until that happens, it can’t develop and mature as an industry, nor can research be properly focused.

For instance, those who restore streams seldom perceive that they are part of an overall restoration of the watershed, and those who restore watersheds don’t see any connection between themselves and those who restore historic buildings. They don’t consider that they both share the title of "restorationist." On the other hand, those who clear-cut forests feel a connection with those who build new buildings: They both know they are "developers."

The Restoration Economy exposes the previously undocumented trillion dollar global industries that are revitalizing our natural and built environments. A deeply researched, entertaining blend of business, science, and economics, it documents the historic shift from new development to restorative development that defines 21st Century commerce and government. It is written for a broad rage of people, including strategists, community planners, architects, engineers, ecologists, and investors.

"This book is an original, a first! I profited from it greatly, and I quote from it in my speeches, especially regarding the importance of restoration in the economic life cycle. Cunningham convincingly demonstrates that tremendous markets for new products and services hide just beneath the surface of the deteriorating assets in our natural and built environments. He points us toward restorative development as a smarter, more economically compelling alternative to sprawling new development." —William H. Hudnut, III, 4-term Mayor of Indianapolis

"This is a landmark work, extremely well written and developed. This book really opened my eyes on a topic that I had never before considered. I was relieved to see that there is a good and reasonable solution to the ruinous policies of unbridled new development." —Mark Stewart, CEO, iAccess Communications

Storm Cunningham is editor of the quarterly journal, Restoration Economy Leader. The world’s foremost expert on the restorative development megatrend, Cunningham is a keynote speaker at many national conferences whose attendees include real estate developers, mayors, business leaders, environmentalists, planners, architects, and engineers.

Cunningham is also CEO of RestorAbility, Inc. which provides strategic planning workshops and consulting for corporations and communities worldwide. A recent client in 2003 was the U.S. Department of State, for whom he did a workshop attended by development experts from 19 countries at RestorAbility headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.

A former Green Beret SCUBA medic, he was—from 1996 to 2002—Director, Strategic Initiatives at the Construction Specifications Institute, a 50+ year-old association of 18,000 architects, engineers, contractors, and manufacturers. Prior to CSI, he was CEO of a manufacturer of commercial aquaculture systems based on a revolutionary water purification technology invented at the Smithsonian Institution.