Building Ecology. First Principles for a Sustainable Built Environment
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Author(s): P. Graham
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 0632064137
Format: softback
290pp
Price: £34.95
Review Date: 07 February 2003
Review: Here the author sets out to provide students with a holistic systems-way of thinking about ecologically sustainable building. The book is structured into three sections. The first part examines the interdependency of buildings and nature, looking at how building activity is causing adverse changes in our natural systems.. The second part deals with the nature of that change and describes the fundamental principles of ecological sustainability derived from thermodynamic laws. The last part distils a set of laws and principles for ecologically sustainable buildings. A case study is provided of a school in Sweden to illustrate the type of building that results from a holistic approach.