Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Sim Van Der Ryn, Stuart Cowan  
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Publisher:Island Press
Genre:Business & Investing
Pages:256
ASIN:1597261416
ISBN:9781597261418
Dewey:333.72
Format:Paperback
Edition:Anv
Release:2007-03-28
Dimensions:0.60 x 8.90 x 6.00 in
Date Added:2009-02-20
Price:$29.95
Rating:3.5 (2 votes)
Summary: "Ecological Design" is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path. Using examples from architecture, industrial ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater treatment, and many other fields, "Ecological Design" provides a framework for integrating human design with living systems. Drawing on complex systems, ecology, and early examples of green building and design, the book challenges us to go further, creating buildings, infrastructures, and landscapes that are truly restorative rather than merely diminishing the rate at which things are getting worse.