Design for Sustainability
eBook - ePub

Design for Sustainability

A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Design for Sustainability

A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
  8. Chapter Outlines
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction
  11. Section 1: Designing Eco-solutions
  12. Section 2: The Concepts of Growth and Waste
  13. Section 3: Industrial, Urban and Construction Ecology
  14. Section 4: Design within Complex Social Systems
  15. Section 5: Permaculture and Landscape Design
  16. Section 6: Values Embodied in and Reinforced by Design
  17. Section 7: Design for Community Building and Health
  18. Section 8: Productivity, Land and Transport Efficiency
  19. Section 9: Design with Less Energy, Materials and Waste
  20. Section 10: Low-impact Housing Design and Materials
  21. Section 11: Construction and Environmental Regulation
  22. Section 12: Planning and Project Assessment
  23. Glossary
  24. Biographies of Contributors
  25. Index