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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 / Janis Birkeland.
Author
Birkeland, Janis, 1945-
Publication
Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications Ltd.

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Description
274 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Subject
  • Ecological engineering
  • Sustainable development
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. Design for Sustainability -- II. The Concepts of Growth and Waste -- III. Industrial, Urban and Construction Ecology -- IV. Design Within Complex Social Systems -- V. Permaculture and Landscape Planning -- VI. Values Embodied in, and Reinforced by Design -- VII. Design for Community Building and Health -- VIII. Design for Productivity, Land and Transport Efficiency -- IX. Design for Self-Sufficiency in Energy, Materials and Waste -- X. Low-Impact Housing Design and Materials -- XI. Construction Management and Environmental Regulation -- XII. Environmental Planning and Project Assessment -- XIII. Embodied Energy and Life Quality Indicators -- XIV. Implementing Change in a Consumer Society.
ISBN
  • 1853838977 (Paperback)
  • 1853839000 (Hardback)
LCCN
2002000385
OCLC
  • 223257934
  • ocn223257934
  • SCSB-4277993
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries