Designing for Zero Waste: Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9781849714358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 418 str.

Steffen Lehmann; Robert Crocker

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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