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Teamwork - landowners, developers, planners, site-designers, ecologists, engineers, architects, government, and community groups must work together and listen carefully to one another.
Supportive Government - expedited approval along with other incentives would enable government to proactively encourage desirable projects. Changes in land use policies and laws may be necessary (for example, policy-makers will need to abandon the outmoded notion that low density sprawl is the key to rural land preservation). It is a proper role of government to adjust the rules of the marketplace so that private profit-seeking serves or is at least consistent with the public good.
Resources - relevant professional expertise, examples in various stages of development, and detailed "how-to" books and articles are plentiful. In addition, there are powerful computerized geographical information mapping systems (GIS) that help facilitate ecological design and integrated agrivillage planning.
Below is a brief bibliography of print resources for ecological and village design.
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