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Biodiversity Targets as the Basis for Green Design

✍ Scribed by Mike Wells; Ken Yeang

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
974 KB
Volume
80
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-8504

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Mike Wells, the Director of Biodiversity by Design, and Ken Yeang outline the need for biodiversity targets in architecture to provide a more far‐reaching basis for green design. Rather than just literally β€˜greening’ a building by covering it with foliage, they seek to encourage designers to engage with wider ecological processes and in more specific detail. Copyright Β© 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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