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Design for sustainability a sourcebook of integrated, eco-logical solutions
Title:
Design for sustainability a sourcebook of integrated, eco-logical solutions
Author:
Birkeland, Janis, 1945-
ISBN:
9781849770958

9781417521753

9781136568411

9781601196996

9781280475757
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Publication Information:
London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, ©2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations
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.
Abstract:
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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Knovel Library
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