Planning And Design Strategies For Sustainability And Profit

Author : Adrian C. Pitts
Publisher : Architectural Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058131247

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Planning and Design Strategies for Sustainability and Profit by Adrian C. Pitts Pdf

This practical guide demonstrates the benefits of sustainable design, emphasising its development as an economically viable and profitable option. It provides: * A unique focus on how to create profit from sustainable design and planning of the built environment * Hands-on advice showing how theories of sustainability can be applied in actual projects * A universal perspective, through multi-national case studies from Europe, North America and Australia In Planning and Design Strategies for Sustainability and Profit, Adrian Pitts identifies current problems which demand the employment of a new holistic approach to sustainability. The book details the issues, and provides a range of potential solutions and techniques that can be applied by the architect and urban designer at both the building and urban scale. It goes on to provide examples of good practice and guidelines for future development - essential information that shows how sustainability has been developed to provide tangible benefits, not only to the environment, but also to users and designers.

Author : Robert H. Freilich,Robert J. Sitkowski,Seth D. Mennillo
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1604428120

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From Sprawl to Sustainability by Robert H. Freilich,Robert J. Sitkowski,Seth D. Mennillo Pdf

Rev. ed. of: From sprawl to smart growth.

Author : Carl Smith,Nigel Dunnett,Andy Clayden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470691588

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Residential Landscape Sustainability by Carl Smith,Nigel Dunnett,Andy Clayden Pdf

This valuable resource for developers and designers will help to develop design solutions sympathetic to the environment and improve the sustainability of residential landscapes. The landscapes around housing have a crucial role in creating a more sustainable future with carbon-neutral homes. This book shows how to improve the sustainable profile of new residential developments through landscape planning, design and management – by conserving resources and minimising pollution, and by enhancing ecological diversity. This may be achieved without significant additional capital outlay. The residential landscape sustainability checklist gives housing developers, landscape architects, architects and planners a tool with which to assess the environmental implication of their schemes throughout the design process – from site planning to detailed design. The checklist focuses on residential housing developments but many features of the tool - including improving energy efficiency, materials selection, planting design and management - can also be applied to a wide range of different types of development, from school grounds to retail parks.

Author : Rodney Howes,Herbert Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136395420

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Infrastructure for the Built Environment: Global Procurement Strategies by Rodney Howes,Herbert Robinson Pdf

Throughout the world there is a growing demand for high quality public services to support socio-economic development. Infrastructure is central to improving the level of public services and the quality of the built environment. But in key areas such as transport, energy, water, healthcare, education and communications, public resources are not sufficient to keep pace with this demand. As the public sector struggles to keep up, the private sector is increasingly involved in the procurement of economic and social infrastructure. Until now procurement strategies have often concentrated on the mechanisms and the ‘bricks and mortar’ without a thorough analysis of the processes and their implications for services. The result is that all too often infrastructure projects are implemented in an ad hoc and fragmented way. In this ground-breaking book, Rodney Howes and Herbert Robinson provide a holistic approach to infrastructure provision that facilitates infrastructure delivery aimed at continuously improving the level and quality of services. Critical issues of policy and strategy, implementation, and operational aspects are examined within the context of sustainability. By emphasising the importance of procuring infrastructure within an overall national or regional development policy and strategy, the authors have demonstrated the importance of linking investment and resource decisions to local social, economic and environmental needs. With each chapter carefully written to reflect part of the infrastructure delivery chain and illustrated with practical examples and case studies from around the world, this book offers a new blueprint for infrastructure investment and resource management.

Author : Edward Ng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136546013

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Designing High-Density Cities by Edward Ng Pdf

Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency in urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental improvements that support higher quality of life in cities. Encouraging, even requiring, higher density urban development is a major policy and a central principle of growth management programmes used by planners around the world. However, such density creates design challenges and problems. A collection of experts in each of the related architectural and planning areas examines these environmental and social issues, and argues that high-density cities are a sustainable solution. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in sustainable urban development.

Author : Martin Melaver
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603580854

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Living Above the Store by Martin Melaver Pdf

Not Merely Sustainable. Restorative. A viable business is a living thing, embedded in the complex web of economy, community, and ecology. Done right, business can help correct the modern stresses of environmental degradation and social fragmentation and create value for workers, shareholders, and additional stakeholders in the community. Living Above the Store explores a road less traveled, and chronicles how business can navigate a new path toward successful, restorative practices. Book jacket.

Author : Benoit Leleux,Jan van der Kaaij
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319974453

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Winning Sustainability Strategies by Benoit Leleux,Jan van der Kaaij Pdf

Despite recent optimism and global initiatives, the implementation of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with less than a third of global companies having developed a clear business case for their approach to sustainability. Presenting numerous award-winning cases and examples from companies such as Unilever, Patagonia, Tumi, DSM and Umicore alongside original ideas based upon 20 years of consulting experience, this book reveals how to design and implement a stronger sense of focus and move sustainability programs forward. This proven combination of purpose, direction and speed is dubbed “Vectoring”. Based upon practitioner cases and data analysis from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Vectoring offers a plain-spoken framework to identify the relative position of companies compared to their peers. The framework and its 4 archetypes deliver insights for practitioners to locate inhibitors and overcome them by providing practical suggestions for process improvements. This includes designing and executing new sustainability programs, embedding the SDGs within company strategy and assessing the impact of sustainability programs on competitiveness and valuation. Offering directions for CFOs to shift companies from integrated reporting to integrated thinking in order to accelerate their sustainability programs, Winning Sustainability Strategies shows how to achieve purpose with profit and how to do well by doing good.

Author : John Benson,Maggie Roe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134137947

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Landscape and Sustainability by John Benson,Maggie Roe Pdf

This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This second edition contains updated and new material reflecting developments during the last five years and comprehensively addresses the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability. Much in the text is underpinned by landscape ecology, in contrast to the idea of landscape as only appealing to the eye or aspiring cerebrally to be fine art. Landscape and Sustainability establishes that the sustainability agenda needs a new mindset among professionals: the driving question must always be ‘is it sustainable?’ Developing theory into practice, from the global to the local scale and from issues of policy and planning through to detailed design and implementation and on to long-term maintenance and management, the contributors raise and re-examine a complex array of research, policy and professional issues and agendas to contribute to the necessary ongoing debate about the future of both landscape and sustainability.

Author : Paola Sassi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134295364

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Strategies for Sustainable Architecture by Paola Sassi Pdf

Filling a gap in existing literature on sustainable design, this new guide introduces and illustrates sustainable design principles through detailed case studies of sustainable buildings in Europe, North America and Australia. The guide will provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the design issues involved in delivering sustainable buildings, and giving detailed description of the process of integrating principles into practice. Approximately one hundred case studies of sixty buildings, ranging from small dwellings to large commercial buildings, and drawn from a range of countries, demonstrate best current practice. The sections of the book are divided into design issues relating to sustainable development, including site and ecology, community and culture, health, materials, energy and water. With over 400 illustrations, this highly visual guide will be an invaluable reference to all those concerned with architecture and sustainability issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : LexisNexis/Matthew Bender
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064239333

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Planning and Control of Land Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Grantham
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110718539

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Sustainable Business Strategy by Andrew Grantham Pdf

In the twenty-first century, there is no single prescription for business strategy development, choice and implementation. The challenges facing firms, not-for-profit organizations and the public sector are significant and call for creativity, inclusivity, diversity and responsibility. The looming and deepening crisis of climate change, imperatives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and global pandemics, have exposed the risks associated with an exclusive market worldview and the indicators that drive it such as GDP, stock market values, return on investment, executive remuneration, etc. Sustainable Business Strategy augments and challenges existing texts to offer a progressive, challenging, decolonized and plural business strategy curriculum. Andrew Grantham presents existing business strategy theories, tools and techniques, introduces contemporary critiques, and offers fresh thinking about the application of the models and outcomes. The book takes the position that what we know about strategic analysis, choice and implementation needs updating and revision; while there remains a significant role for the market in a healthy, sustainable and future-oriented economy, strategic decisions will be mediated by regulation, broad stakeholder engagement and planetary boundaries. This book is written to be used as a core text for students studying business or corporate strategy at undergraduate and master’s levels. The author uses contemporary examples by way of illustration but seeks to guide readers to investigate the case in greater detail for themselves using references and hyperlinks. Questions and exercise sections in each chapter can be utilized in seminar classes and/or assessments. Events around the book Link to a De Gruyter Online Event in which the author Andrew Grantham together with Patricia Prado, Newcastle Business School discuss topics such as: How can businesses implement strategies that enable competitive growth and create shared value in a way that is truly sustainable during this era of climate change? What tools can analysts and strategists use to ensure sustainability is at the very core of business strategy? The event will be moderated by Richard Freeman, founder and CEO of always possible: https://youtu.be/0y6n93-6axw

Author : Potocan, Vojko,Ün?an, Mustafa C.,Nedelko, Zlatko
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522507321

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Handbook of Research on Managerial Solutions in Non-Profit Organizations by Potocan, Vojko,Ün?an, Mustafa C.,Nedelko, Zlatko Pdf

Non-profit Organizations (NPOs) are the fastest growing organizations in modern society. They exist in a liminal realm between public and private organizations, and because of this, new jurisdictions are created for NPOs. The existence of NPOs is contingent upon their adequacy, and management is a key determining factor as to whether an organization survives. The Handbook of Research on Managerial Solutions in Non-Profit Organizations provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings related to the successful management of nonprofits. Providing insights into the best practices and valuable comparisons between strategies in different contexts, this book gives invaluable support for nonprofit managers, policy makers, students, and researchers.

Author : Patrick M. Condon
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597268202

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Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities by Patrick M. Condon Pdf

Questions of how the design of cities can respond to the challenge of climate change dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the U.S. and Canada. With admirable clarity, Patrick Condon responds to these questions. He addresses transportation, housing equity, job distribution, economic development, and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowledge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design recommendations. No other book so clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological, economic, and social consequences. No other book takes on this breadth of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to such convincing and practical solutions.

Author : Adrian C. Pitts,Hanwen Liao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124181764

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Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development by Adrian C. Pitts,Hanwen Liao Pdf

This book explains how modern Olympic games can successfully develop a more sustainable design approach by learning from the lessons of the past and by taking account of the latest developments.

Author : Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu,Miguel Angel Gardetti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030379292

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Sustainability in the Textile and Apparel Industries by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu,Miguel Angel Gardetti Pdf

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally. Case studies are provided that cover the theoretical and practical implications of sustainable textile issues, including environmental footprints of textile manufacturing, consumer behavior, eco-design in clothing and apparels, supply chain sustainability, the chemistry of textile manufacturing, waste management and textile economics. The set will be of interest to researchers, engineers, industrialists, R&D managers and students working in textile chemistry, economics, materials science, and sustainable consumption and production. This volume discusses novel trends and concepts in sustainable textile design, including innovative topics such as doodling and upcycling in clothing and apparel design for sustainable fashion initiatives. Along with strategies for repurposing fashion sustainability, the book also covers university interventions for the development of proper and environmentally friendly design practices. Specific technologies addressed include UV applications, laser treatments for dyeing, refined surface design techniques for products such as leather.