Reshaping the built environment : ecology, ethics, and economics / edited by Charles J. Kibert ; foreword by Alex Wilson.

Other author Kibert, Charles J.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Promises and limits of sustainability / Charles J. Kibert -- Ecological challenge, human values of nature, and sustainability in the built environment / Stepher 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.
Local noteLittle-312995--305131014700P
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99012892
ISBN1559637013
ISBN1559637021

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HD255 .R47 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold