Reshaping the built environment : ecology, ethics, and economics

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Reshaping the built environment : ecology, ethics, and economics

edited by Charles J. Kibert ; foreword by Alex Wilson

Island Press, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

ISBN 9781559637015

内容説明

Because of the profound effects of the built environment on the availability of natural resources for future generations, those involved with designing, creating, operating, renovating, and demolishing human structures have a vital role to play in working to put society on a path toward sustainability.This volume presents the thinking of leading academics and professionals in planning, civil engineering, economics, ecology, architecture, landscape architecture, construction, and related fields who are seeking to discover ways of creating a more sustainable built environment. Contributors address the broad range of issues involved, offering both insights and practical examples. In the book: Stephen Kellert describes the scope of the looming ecological crisis Herman Daly explains the unsustainability of the world's economic system and the dangers inherent in the current movement toward globalization John Todd describes the evolution of wastewater processing systems inspired by natural systems John Tillman Lyle discusses the importance of landscape in the creation of the human environment Randall Arendt argues for a fundamental shift in land development patterns that would not only provide for more green space in new developments, but would also increase the profitability of developers and the quality of life for new home owners Thomas E. Graedel proposes the application of lessons learned from the emerging science of industrial ecology to the creation of green building. While the transition to sustainability will not be easy, natural systems provide abundant models of architecture, engineering, production, and waste conversion that can be used in rethinking the human habitat and itsinterconnections. This volume provides insights that can light the way to a new era in which a reshaped built environment will not only provide improved human living conditions, but will also protect and respect the earth's essential natural life-support systems and resources.
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:pbk ISBN 9781559637022

内容説明

This volume brings together experts from planning, civil engineering, economics, architecture and landscape architecture, design and construction to describe how a sustainable human habitat can be created. It shows how living conditions can be improved and the natural environment enhanced.

目次

  • The promises and limits of sustainability
  • ecological challenge, human values and sustainability
  • environmental ethics
  • uneconomic growth and the built environment
  • renewable energy technologies
  • building materials
  • ecological design, living machines and pure water
  • landscape
  • construction and demolition waste
  • bulding values
  • architecture as pedagogy
  • urban planning
  • creating greener communities
  • environmentally superior buildings
  • environmental performance of buildings
  • sustainable new towns.

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