Designing for zero waste
Subtitle: consumption, technologies and the built environment
By: edited by Steffen Lehmann and Robert Crocker
Series: Earthscan book series on sustainable design
Publisher: EarthScan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781849714341; 9781849714358; 9780203146057
Subjects: ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design; ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning; Waste minimization; Urban ecology (Sociology)
Description: "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. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Zero waste, sustainability and behaviour change: principles; title: Zero waste, enabling technologies and consumption: policies; title: Zero waste in sustainable architecture and design at the household and building scale; title: Zero waste in cities, urban governance and material flows; title: The culture and politics of zero waste: looking ahead.