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Subject(s)

• Environmental policy [Browse]
• Human ecology [Browse]
• Social ecology [Browse]
• Biodiversity [Browse]

Related name

• Cowan, Stuart, 1965- [Browse]

Summary note

Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path. Using examples from architecture, industrial ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater treatment, and many other fields, Ecological Design provides a framework for integrating human design with living systems. Drawing on complex systems, ecology, and early examples of green building and design, the book challenges us to go further, creating buildings, infrastructures, and landscapes that are truly restorative rather than merely diminishing the rate at which things are getting worse. --Publisher description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.

Contents

• A ten-year retrospective
• Part 1. Bringing design to life
• Sustainability and design
• Nature's geometry
• Part 2. The ecological design process
• Introduction: the compost privy story
• First principle: solutions grow from place
• Second principle: Ecological accounting informs design
• Third principle: Design with nature
• Fourth principle: Everyone is a designer
• Fifth principle: Make nature visible
• Resource guide for ecological design.

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ISBN

• 9781597261401 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 1597261408 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9781597261418 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 1597261416 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2007001639

OCLC

78791353

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