Design for sustainability : a sourcebook of integrated, ecological solutions / Dr. Janis Birkeland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birkeland, Janis, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecological engineering.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 274 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002.

Summary:

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach to environmental and social problem-solving. This sourcebook is useful for teaching, as each topic within the field of environmental management and social change has pairs of short readings providing diverse perspectives to compare, contrast and debate. Design for Sustainability presents examples of integrated systems design based on ecological principles and concepts and drawn from the foremost designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture, and energy and resource management.

Contents:

section 1. Designing eco-solutions

section 2. The concepts of growth and waste

section 3. Industrial, urban and construction ecology

section 4. Design within complex social systems

section 5. Permaculture and landscape design

section 6. Values embodied in and reinforced by design

section 7. Design for community building and health

section 8. Productivity, land and transport efficiency

section 9. Design with less energy, materials and waste

section 10. Low-impact housing design and materials

section 11. Construction and environmental regulation

section 12. Planning and project assessment.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-56840-9

1-4175-2175-9

1-280-47575-7

9786610475759

1-136-56841-7

600-00-0302-1

1-84977-095-6

9781849770958

OCLC:

466435390