M. Nils Peterson is an associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. Tarla Rai Peterson is the Boone and Crockett Chair in Wildlife and Conservation Policy at Texas A&M University and a professor of environmental communication at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Jianguo Liu is the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, a University Distinguished Professor, and the director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University.

The Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society explores common fallacies in thinking about housing and offers many alternatives, and is a pick for any social issues collection, especially those strong in urban research. Midwest Book Review The Housing Bomb is an eloquent expose of the social and environmental ills associated with western housing trends. -- Martin Brueckner Pacific Conservation Biology Any reader with an interest in economics, sustainable business, and ecology will find this book well worth reading and debating. -- Rick Docksai World Future Society

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Household Dynamics and Their Contribution to the Housing Bomb2. How Home Ownership Both Emancipates and Enslaves Us3. "Housaholism" in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem4. Household Dynamics and Giant Panda Conservation5. Defusing the Housing Bomb with Your House6. Individual and Local Strategies for Defusing the Housing Bomb7. Large-Scale Strategies for Defusing the Housing BombConclusionNotesIndex

M. Nils Peterson is an associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. Tarla Rai Peterson is the Boone and Crockett Chair in Wildlife and Conservation Policy at Texas A&M University and a professor of environmental communication at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Jianguo Liu is the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, a University Distinguished Professor, and the director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University.

The Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society explores common fallacies in thinking about housing and offers many alternatives, and is a pick for any social issues collection, especially those strong in urban research. Midwest Book Review The Housing Bomb is an eloquent expose of the social and environmental ills associated with western housing trends. -- Martin Brueckner Pacific Conservation Biology Any reader with an interest in economics, sustainable business, and ecology will find this book well worth reading and debating. -- Rick Docksai World Future Society

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Household Dynamics and Their Contribution to the Housing Bomb2. How Home Ownership Both Emancipates and Enslaves Us3. "Housaholism" in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem4. Household Dynamics and Giant Panda Conservation5. Defusing the Housing Bomb with Your House6. Individual and Local Strategies for Defusing the Housing Bomb7. Large-Scale Strategies for Defusing the Housing BombConclusionNotesIndex

M. Nils Peterson is an associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. Tarla Rai Peterson is the Boone and Crockett Chair in Wildlife and Conservation Policy at Texas A&M University and a professor of environmental communication at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Jianguo Liu is the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, a University Distinguished Professor, and the director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University.

The Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society explores common fallacies in thinking about housing and offers many alternatives, and is a pick for any social issues collection, especially those strong in urban research. Midwest Book Review The Housing Bomb is an eloquent expose of the social and environmental ills associated with western housing trends. -- Martin Brueckner Pacific Conservation Biology Any reader with an interest in economics, sustainable business, and ecology will find this book well worth reading and debating. -- Rick Docksai World Future Society

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Household Dynamics and Their Contribution to the Housing Bomb2. How Home Ownership Both Emancipates and Enslaves Us3. "Housaholism" in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem4. Household Dynamics and Giant Panda Conservation5. Defusing the Housing Bomb with Your House6. Individual and Local Strategies for Defusing the Housing Bomb7. Large-Scale Strategies for Defusing the Housing BombConclusionNotesIndex