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  | | Positive Development(1st Edition) From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design by Janis Birkeland, Bob Doppelt Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-84407-579-9, ISBN: 1-84407-579-6 "Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolu ..." |
 | | Positive Development(1st Edition) From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design (Hardcover) by Janis Birkeland Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Earthscan ISBN-13: 978-1-84407-578-2, ISBN: 1-84407-578-8 "From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design Janis Birkeland. 5. Building. Rating. Tools. From. best. practice. to. a. sustainability. standard. The technical advances and industry uptake of building rating schemes and ... they are still used in only a small portion of buildings.2 These building assessment and rating tools each have heuristic value. ... There is no harm in advancing our ability to estima ..." |
 | | Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development(1st Edition) by Janis Birkeland Paperback, 382 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-367-25856-6, ISBN: 0-367-25856-0 "‘Sustainable’ urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities. Positive Development theory holds that development could create more net ecological and social gains than no construction at all. It explains how existing conceptual, physical and institutional structures are inherently bi ..." |
 | | The Good Work Guide(1st Edition) How to Make Organizations Fairer and More Effective by Nick Isles, Janis Birkeland Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2010 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-84407-557-7, ISBN: 1-84407-557-5 "As the world reels from the credit crunch and fall into recession of late 2008, the search is on for a better way to do business. In an increasingly knowledge driven economy, the importance of people's discretionary effort to business performance is key to success - or failure - but many businesses and managers do not understand the alchemy required to gain the extra few per cent from their human resources. This new guide lays out how ..." |
 | | Design for Sustainability(1st Edition) A Sourcebook of Integrated, Eco-logical Solutions by Janis Birkeland, Anil Markandya, Kirsten Halsnaes Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-85383-900-9, ISBN: 1-85383-900-0 "With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach ..." |
 | | Design for Sustainability(1st Edition) A Sourcebook of Integrated, Eco-logical Solutions by Janis Birkeland Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-85383-897-2, ISBN: 1-85383-897-7 "With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach ..." |
 | | Selling Forest Environmental Services(1st Edition) by Stefano Pagiola, Joshua Bishop, Natasha Landel-Mills, Natasha Landell-Mills, Janis Birkeland Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-85383-889-7, ISBN: 1-85383-889-6 "The risks posed by forest destruction throughout the world are highly significant for all. Not only are forests a critical source of timber and non-timber forest products, but they provide environmental services that are the basis of life on Earth. However, only rarely do beneficiaries pay for the goods and services they experience, and there are severe consequences as a result for the poor and for the forests themselves. It has proved ..." |