'Design for Sustainability has a swathe of solutions to pollution waste and other ills' New Scientist 'An invaluable reference and teaching resource' Sustain 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 env.