| Description |
xvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Real estate development -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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Construction industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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Construction industry -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00876021
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Real estate development -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01090983
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Kibert, Charles J.
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| ISBN |
1559637013 |
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9781559637015 |
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1559637021 |
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9781559637022 |
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