Designing for Zero Waste

Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84971-435-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 1100 g

Reihe: Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design

Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing consumption and waste reduction from different disciplinary perspectives, the complex nature of the problem requires an increasing degree of interdisciplinarity. Resource recovery and the optimisation of material flow can only be achieved alongside and through behaviour change to reduce the creation of material waste and wasteful consumption. This book aims to develop a more robust understanding of the links between lifestyle, consumption, technologies and urban development.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehmann, Steffen

Crocker, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Architekturdesign
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauökologie, Baubiologie, Bauphysik, Bauchemie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nachhaltigkeit, Grüne Technologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Consumer Culture, Waste and Behaviour Change: The Case of Walking 2. Twenty-first Century Life: How Our Work, Home and Community Lives Affect Our Capacity to Live Sustainably 3. Young Children and Sustainable Consumption: An Early Childhood Education Agenda 4. Reducing Wasteful Household Behaviours: Contributions from Psychology and Implications for Intervention Design 5. Collaborative Consumption and the Remaking of Local Resilience: Reflecting Upon Enabling Solutions 6. Getting Closer to Zero Waste in the New Mobile Communications Paradigm: A Social and Cultural Perspective 7. Waste from Electronics (e-Waste) Governance and Systems Organisation 8. Life-cycle Thinking, Analysis and Design 9. Green Houses: Problem-solving, Ontology and the House 10. Living in Harmony with Wildlife: Considering the Animal’s ‘Point of View’ in Planning and Design 11. Sustainable Building Design and Systems Integration: Combining Material Efficiency with Energy Efficiency 12. Breathing Life into the Corpse: Up-cycling Waste Buildings through Adaptive Reuse 13. Density, Design and Sustainable Residential Development 14. Construction Management and a State of Zero Waste 15. The Metabolism of the City: Optimising Urban Material Flow Through Principles of Zero Waste and Sustainable Consumption 16. Sustainable Transport Systems and Behaviour Change 17. Planning for the Sustainable Consumption of Urban Resources 18. Development of Multifunctional Urban Land Uses Using Water Sensitive Urban Design

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Steffen Lehmann PhD, is the Director of the Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour at the University of South Australia. Steffen is a widely published author and scholar and is Founding Director of the s_Lab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (Sydney-Berlin). A German-born architect and urban designer, he is editor of the US based Journal of Green Building and an advisor to Australian and German government, city councils and industry. For further information and detailed publication list: www.slab.com.au

Dr Robert Crocker is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia and teaches in both the history and theory of design and the School's Master of Sustainable Design. With an Oxford doctorate in the history of science and ideas (1987), Robert has published one monograph and two edited books (in The International Archives in the History of Ideas series). For a brief publication list, see below and Robert's university homepage: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?Name=Robert.Crocker