Reshaping the built environment: ecology, ethics and economics / by Charles J. Kibert

1.Promises and limits of sustainability / Charles J. Kibert --
2.Ecological challenge, human values of nature, and sustainability in the built environment / Stephen R. Kellert --
3.Environmental ethics / Sarah van Gelder --
4.Uneconomic growth and the built environment / Herman E. Daly --
5.Introduction to renewable energy technologies / Stephen J. Strong --
6.Environmentally responsible building materials selection / Nadav Malin --
7.Ecological design, living machines, and the purification of waters / John Todd --
8.Landscape: source of life or liability / John Tillman Lyle --
9.Construction and demolition waste / Peter Yost --
10.Building values / Gail A. Lindsey --
11.Architecture as pedagogy / David Orr --
12.Biourbanism and sustainable urban planning / Daniel Williams --
13.Creating greener communities through conservation subdivision design / Randall Arendt --
14.Environmentally superior buildings from birth to death / Thomas E. Graedel --
15.Environmental performance of buildings / Raymond J. Cole --
16.The Chicago Brownfields initiative / William C. Trumbull --
17.Sustainable new town and industrial ecology / Ernest A. Lowe.

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.