Reshaping the Built Environment Ecology, Ethics, and Economics

• Other Authors: Kibert. Charles J. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C. Island Press 1999
• Edition: Print book : English
• Subjects: Real estate development > Environmental aspects > United States; Construction industry > Environmental aspects > United States
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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 sustainabili...

Table of Contents:

• 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.