William B Honachefsky PP, PLS, QEP was honored at the New Jersey Planning Officials on June 23,2000, for the innovative publication, "Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning"

" A reference book accessible to the average citizen, that is likely to
spark new ways of thinking for professional planners and civil engineers"
Ed Hunt-Tidepool Books

" Move over, the municipal master plan of the 21st Century has arrived"
EcoIq Magazine

William B. Honachefsky's latest lecture at the American Museum of Natural
History: Nature in Fragments: The Legacy of Urban Sprawl

Lecture at American Museum of Natural History: http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/sprawl/archive/presenterbios/biohonachefsky.html

Press Release for WCS: http://www.wcs.org/news/breakingnews/international/000320.sprawl.html

Reviews:

Tidepool Books review: www.tidepool.org/books/wbh.html
Eco IQ Magazine reviews: www.ecoiq.com/magazine/features/feature61.html
Sustainable Communities http://www.sustainable.org/information/resources_column/jan00.html
GSENET: http://www.gsenet.org/newsstnd/sustrevw.html
Sustainable Business: www.sustainablebusiness.com/

Communities and citizens nationwide remain frustrated by their inability to
halt the disturbing pattern of land development leapfrogging across the
national landscape creating an ecologically destructive, unsustainable and
aesthetically unappealing pattern of land use. The solution to this dilemma
will not be found in the promulgation of more state and federal laws, rules,
and regulations, but in the communities themselves and in the way they
construct their Municipal Master Plans.

William Honachefsky's new book, entitled, "Ecologically Based Municipal Land
Use Planning", will revolutionize the way American communities plan their
land use. Drawing upon more than 30 years of experience, including the
investigation of thousands of cases of environmental abuse, Honachefsky
presents a powerful combination of strategies that:

1. Help restore the Municipal Master Plan to its rightful place of
dominance over zoning;

2. Incorporate 30 years of scientific research and a host of new and unique
"ecological indicators" with which a community can finally assess the health
of the natural resources that help sustain it;

3. Apply GIS to problem solving;

4. Make preservation of the community's "ecological infrastructure" the
paramount priority of the Municipal Master Plan.

This book is about the empowerment of regular citizens and the crafting of
Scientifically based local land use master plans that will withstand even
the most withering judicial scrutiny. No community in the United States
will, henceforth, ever be able to say that they did not have the tools to
stop land sprawl in its tracks. The question is, will they have the courage
to bring land use planning up to the standards needed for the 21st century.

CRC Press/ Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL at 1-800-272-7737

The author can be reached by phone at 908-638-8650, fax 908-638-3105, and email whonachefsky@sprintmail.com

Book fast becoming worldwide reference: Already a top rated land use planning reference in:

Japan: http://www.kaigai-pub.co.jp/SHINKAN/I/I77.html
Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/nacq/20009/deweys.html
Hong Kong: http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/newtitle/4wkago/ul.html
Germany: http://www.springer.de/geosci-de/books/newbooks-199911.htm
Liberia: http://www.jet.es/libuni/novedad.html
Poland: http://www.abe.com.pl/abe/pl_ofcrc-och.html

Michigan http://www.lib.umich.edu/ummu/newbooks/caup/1.html
Western Michigan: http://www.wmich.edu/library/newbooks/march-soc.html
Buffalo http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/newacq/apl0115.html
California: http://www.esf.edu/outreach/newspubs/calfiles/Cal2000/Apr2.htm
Georgia http://water.roman.net/bookstore.html
Purdue http://www.lib.purdue.edu/library_info/departments/life/booklist/99-
South Carolina http://www.sc.edu/library/lis/envs03.html
George Mason: http://www.georgemason.edu
Illinois http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~forestry/guide/sec1.html
Nevada: http://www.unlv.edu
Texas http://lib.tamuk.edu/recent/recenta.html
Missouri http://www.umkc.edu/lib/gen-info/newtitles-mnl.htm
Kansas http://www.lib.ksu.edu/branches/architecture/march00.html
Oregon: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/~colldev/recent/may00/knighth.htm
Washington: http://www.statelib.wa.gov/refdesk/nrmay.htm