Design for sustainability: a sourcebook of integrated eco-logical solutions

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Personal Author:

Birkeland, Janis

Publication Information:

London : Earthscan Publications, Ltd., 2002

ISBN:

9781853839009

Subject Term:

Ecological engineering

Sustainable development

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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.

Author Notes

Janis Birkeland was an artist and architect before becoming an urban designer and city planner with the City of San Francisco. She later became an attorney, with a focus on environmental law and planning. Dr Birkeland is presently consulting in the area of urban and regional planning, and teaches in the Division of Science and Design at the University of Canberra

List of Illustrations	p. vii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. ix
Chapter Outlines	p. x
Preface	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Section 1 Designing Eco-solutions
1.1 Education for Eco-innovation	p. 7
1.2 The Centrality of Design	p. 13
1.3 Green Philosophy	p. 20
1.4 Responsible Design	p. 26
Section 2 The Concepts of Growth and Waste
2.1 Limits to Growth and Design of Settlements	p. 33
2.2 Redefining Progress	p. 38
2.3 Designing Waste	p. 43
2.4 Designing for Durability	p. 46
Section 3 Industrial, Urban and Construction Ecology
3.1 Industrial Ecology	p. 52
3.2 Urban Ecology	p. 57
3.3 Construction Ecology	p. 64
3.4 Pollution Prevention by Design	p. 69
Section 4 Design within Complex Social Systems
4.1 Complexity and the Urban Environment	p. 74
4.2 Unified Human Community Ecology	p. 78
4.3 The Bionic Method in Industrial Design	p. 84
4.4 Green Theory in the Construction Fields	p. 89
Section 5 Permaculture and Landscape Design
5.1 Permaculture and Design Education	p. 95
5.2 The Sustainable Landscape	p. 99
5.3 Place, Community Values and Planning	p. 105
5.4 Playgardens and Community Development	p. 109
Section 6 Values Embodied in and Reinforced by Design
6.1 Urban Forms and the Dominant Paradigm	p. 114
6.2 Models of Ecological Housing	p. 119
6.3 Marketing-led Design	p. 125
6.4 Gender and Product Semantics	p. 130
Section 7 Design for Community Building and Health
7.1 ESD and 'Sense of Community'	p. 134
7.2 Sustainability and Aboriginal Housing	p. 138
7.3 Indoor Air Quality in Housing	p. 143
7.4 Beyond the Chemical Barrier	p. 148
Section 8 Productivity, Land and Transport Efficiency
8.1 Greening the Workplace	p. 154
8.2 Sustainable Personal Urban Transport	p. 158
8.3 From Sub-urbanism to Eco-cities	p. 164
8.4 Density, Environment and the City	p. 168
Section 9 Design with Less Energy, Materials and Waste
9.1 Living Technologies	p. 173
9.2 Housing Wastewater Solutions	p. 177
9.3 Autonomous Servicing	p. 182
9.4 Timber Waste Minimisation by Design	p. 188
Section 10 Low-impact Housing Design and Materials
10.1 Earth Building	p. 193
10.2 Strawbale Construction	p. 197
10.3 Bamboo as a Building Resource	p. 201
10.4 Hemp Architecture	p. 205
Section 11 Construction and Environmental Regulation
11.1 Legislative Environmental Controls	p. 210
11.2 Economic Instruments	p. 215
11.3 Building Codes and Sustainability	p. 221
11.4 Assessing Building Materials	p. 225
Section 12 Planning and Project Assessment
12.1 Planning for Ecological Sustainability	p. 231
12.2 Bioregional Planning	p. 236
12.3 Environmental Management Tools	p. 242
12.4 Limits of Environmental Impact Assessment	p. 247
Glossary	p. 252
Biographies of Contributors	p. 260
Index	p. 264

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