ABSTRACT
The design of the built environment (along with other crucial issues such as population, militarism, globalisation and urbanisation), has held a minor position in the literature of environmental management and sustainability. Yet inappropriate design determines most of the avoidable environmental impacts which environmental protection laws, policies and programs can only mitigate. Because environmental professionals and academics have failed to appreciate the centrality of environmental design to sustainability, they have underestimated its potential as a method for environmental management and problem prevention/ solving.
