Janis Birkeland's Books

Positive Development

From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design

By: Janis Birkeland

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Positive Development

From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design

By: Janis Birkeland

Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode to achieve this end. This book challenges everyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development, planning, architecture or the built environment to rethink their current ideas and practices.

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Design for Sustainability

A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

By: Janis Birkeland

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Design for Sustainability

A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

By: Janis Birkeland

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.

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Positive Development

From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design

By: Janis Birkeland

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Positive Development

From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design

By: Janis Birkeland

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1136559442

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9781136559440

Design for Sustainability

A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

By: Janis Birkeland

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Design for Sustainability

A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

By: Janis Birkeland

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1136568409

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9781136568404

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Positive Development

Positive Development

Design for Sustainability

Design for Sustainability

Positive Development

Positive Development

Design for Sustainability

Design for Sustainability

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