ABSTRACT
The main argument of the preceding chapter was a call for more support for establishing the environmental imperative as a context for building design professionals, by institutionalizing ecological sustainable development (ESD) within their professional groups. ESD is in a transitional stage of introduction and still lacks the necessary micro-economic reform and associated legislation that it will need in order to be classed as mainstream. A number of contextual barriers remain in place, but fortunately the move to ESD is progressing on a broad front, through a range of initiatives, specifically green design, or sustainable design as it sometimes called.
