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Design for sustainability : a sourcebook of integrated, eco-logical solutions / Janis Birkeland

Author
Birkeland, Janis, 1945-
Published
London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, [2002]
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Designing Eco-solutions -- Education for Eco-innovation -- The Centrality of Design -- Green Philosophy -- Responsible Design -- The Concepts of Growth and Waste -- Limits to Growth and Design of Settlements -- Redefining Progress -- Designing Waste -- Designing for Durability -- Industrial, Urban and Construction Ecology -- Industrial Ecology -- Urban Ecology -- Construction Ecology -- Pollution Prevention by Design -- Design within Complex Social Systems -- Complexity and the Urban Environment -- Unified Human Community Ecology -- The Bionic Method in Industrial Design -- Green Theory in the Construction Fields -- Permaculture and Landscape Design -- Permaculture and Design Education -- The Sustainable Landscape -- Place, Community Values and Planning -- Playgardens and Community Development -- Values Embodied in and Reinforced by Design -- Urban Forms and the Dominant Paradigm -- Models of Ecological Housing -- Marketing-led Design -- Gender and Product Semantics -- Design for Community Building and Health -- ESD and 'Sense of Community' -- Sustainability and Aboriginal Housing -- Indoor Air Quality in Housing -- Beyond the Chemical Barrier -- Productivity, Land and Transport Efficiency -- Greening the Workplace -- Sustainable Personal Urban Transport -- From Sub-urbanism to Eco-cities -- Density, Environment and the City -- Design with Less Energy, Materials and Waste -- Living Technologies -- Housing Wastewater Solutions -- Autonomous Servicing -- Timber Waste Minimisation by Design.
Summary
Ecological principles and concepts are becoming increasingly integrated into our everyday lives, influencing where and how we live. This book is an inspiring, radical and detailed collection of the eco-solutions that can be applied to a range of design challenges.
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9781849770958 (electronic bk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-263) and index.
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