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

Designing for Zero Waste: Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment
ISBN-10
1136507531
ISBN-13
9781136507533
Category
Architecture
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2013-07-03
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Robert Crocker, Steffen Lehmann

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.

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