The Restoration Economy

Chronicling the global industry that is revitalizing natural and man-made environments, Cunningham explores the rapid rise of restorative development, details how the information age is catalyzing the transition from development to restoration, and demonstrates how restoration is "greening" residential, commercial, and public construction.

The Restoration Economy chronicles the previously undocumented trillion-dollar global industry that is revitalizing our natural and man-made environments. Storm Cunningham explores the rapid rise of restorative development, details how the information age is catalyzing the transition from development to restoration, and demonstrates how restoration is greening residential, commercial, and public construction. A guide to this new economy for designers, urban planners, businesspeople, environmentalists, students, and investors, the book's entertaining blend of business, science, and economics shows that those working to conserve the natural environment and those working to revitalize the built environment are actually part of the same restoration economy, and inspires business and government leaders to focus resources on this new economic sector.