Introduction to Sustainability || Sustainability in the Built Environment

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• Book ID: 120320875
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 465 KB
• Edition: 2005
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9781402035562
• DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3558-6_3

✦ Synopsis

This book develops a supporting structure for sustainable development, following a natural set of steps to reach an established goal. It provides the tools to navigate this Road to a Better Future by explaining concepts, giving ideas, proposing methods, and suggesting actions. To illustrate the utilization of techniques there are many examples, applied to a variety of activities, and to wrap up concepts, the last chapter is dedicated to the analysis of a community in search of a sustainable environment. A thematic index has been designed to help a person quickly find information on relevant topics.