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  • Design for Sustainabilityby Janis Birkeland

    Earthscan 2002; US$ 52.50

    '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 environmental and social problem-solving. This sourcebook is useful for teaching as each topic within the field of environmental management... more...

  • Positive Developmentby Janis Birkeland

    Earthscan 2008; US$ 48.95

    Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality health amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode to achieve this end. This book challenges everyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development planning architecture or the built environment to rethink their current ideas and practices. more...

  • Ecological Engineering Designby Marty D. Matlock; Robert A. Morgan

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011; US$ 135.00

    Ecologically-sensitive building and landscape design is a broad, intrinsically interdisciplinary field.  Existing books independently cover narrow aspects of ecological design in depth (hydrology, ecosystems, soils, flora and fauna, etc.), but none of these books can boast of the integrated approach taken by this one.  Drawing on the experience of the authors, this book begins to define explicit design methods for integrating consideration of ecosystem processes and services into every facet of land use design, management, and policy.  The approach is to provide a prescriptive approach to ecosystem design based upon ecological engineering principles and practices.  This book will include a novel collection of design... more...

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