Reshaping the built environment: ecology, ethics and economics /
by Charles J. Kibert
- Suite: Island Press, 1999.
- xvi,378p.
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.
9781559637022
Real estate development-Environmental aspects-United Sta