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Reshaping the built environment : ecology, ethics, and economics /
This volume presents the thinking of leading academics and professionals in planning, civil engineering, economics, architecture, construction, and a host of other fields who are seeking to discover ways of creating a more sustainable built environment.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Promises and limits of sustainability / Charles J. Kibert
- Ecological challenge, human values of nature, and sustainability in the built environment / Stephen R. Kellert
- Environmental ethics / Sarah van Gelder
- Uneconomic growth and the built environment / Herman E. Daly
- Introduction to renewable energy technologies / Stephen J. Strong
- Environmentally responsible building materials selection / Nadav Malin
- Ecological design, living machines, and the purification of waters / John Todd
- Landscape: source of life or liability / John Tillman Lyle
- Construction and demolition waste / Peter Yost
- Building values / Gail A. Lindsey
- Architecture as pedagogy / David Orr
- Biourbanism and sustainable urban planning / Daniel Williams
- Creating greener communities through conservation subdivision design / Randall Arendt
- Environmentally superior buildings from birth to death / Thomas E. Graedel
- Environmental performance of buildings / Raymond J. Cole
- The Chicago Brownfields initiative / William C. Trumbull
- Sustainable new town and industrial ecology / Ernest A. Lowe.