Janis Birkeland

Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development is aimed at students, academics, professionals and sustainability advocates who wonder why existing approaches have been ineffective. It explains how to reform the anti-ecological biases in our current frameworks of environmental governance, planning, decision making and design

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000754506
• Artikelnr.: 58643796

Autorenporträt

Dr. Janis Birkeland is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. She was Professor of Sustainable Design at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and Professor of Architecture at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Before that, she was a lawyer, architect and planner in San Francisco. She originated the theory of net-positive design, design for eco-services and other increasingly popular concepts, and taught and published various aspects of sustainable development for over two decades. Her PhD was Planning for Sustainability (1993) and her books include Positive Development, Mapping Regional Metabolism and Design for Sustainability.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS Section A. Introduction to Positive Development
Chapter 1. Overview of Net-positive Development Chapter 2. Centrality of
the Built Environment in Sustainability Section B. Sustainability Revisited
Chapter 3. Sustainability Paradigms in Historical Context Chapter 4.
Sustainability and Positive Development Theory Section C. Built Environment
Solutions Chapter 5. Eco-positive Retrofitting Chapter 6. Design for Nature
Exemplified Section D. Systems Mapping Themes (SMT) Analyses Chapter 7.
SMT Analyses for Physical Design Chapter 8. SMT Analyses for Institutional
Designs PART II: DECISION MAKING AND ASSESSMENT Section E. Development
Governance Chapter 9. Governance and Futures Planning Chapter 10.
Development Control and Assessment Section F. Rating Tools Critiqued
Chapter 11. Rating Tools and Procedures Chapter 12. Rating Tools and
Substance Section G. Eco-positive Design Review (a qualitative tool)
Chapter 13. The Eco-positive Design Review (social issues) Chapter 14. The
Eco-positive Design Review (ecological issues) Section H. STARfish (a
quantitative tool) Chapter 15. The STARfish Tool Described Chapter 16. The
STARfish Tool Benchmarks