Title & Author:

Reshaping the built environment : ecology, ethics, and economics / edited by Charles J. Kibert ; foreword by Alex Wilson.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1999]
©1999

Description:

xvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

1559637013
9781559637015
1559637021
9781559637022

Subject:

Real estate development Environmental aspects United States.
Construction industry Environmental aspects United States.
Promotion immobilière Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis.
Construction industry Environmental aspects.
Real estate development Environmental aspects.
Gebouwde omgeving.
Duurzame ontwikkeling.
United States.

Added entries:

Kibert, Charles J.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202353
Call No.: HD255 .R4 1999
Status: Available