ABSTRACT
With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach to environmental and social problem-solving. This sourcebook is useful for teaching, as each topic within the field of environmental management and social change has pairs of short readings providing diverse perspectives to compare, contrast and debate. Design for Sustainability presents examples of integrated systems design based on ecological principles and concepts and drawn from the foremost designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture, and energy and resource management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|26 pages
Designing Eco-solutions
part 2|19 pages
The Concepts of Growth and Waste
part 3|22 pages
Industrial, Urban and Construction Ecology
part 4|21 pages
Design within Complex Social Systems
part 5|19 pages
Permaculture and Landscape Design
part 6|20 pages
Values Embodied in and Reinforced by Design
part 7|20 pages
Design for Community Building and Health
part 8|19 pages
Productivity, Land and Transport Efficiency
part 9|20 pages
Design with Less Energy, Materials and Waste
part 10|17 pages
Low-impact Housing Design and Materials
part 11|21 pages
Construction and Environmental Regulation
part 12|21 pages
Planning and Project Assessment