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Evaluating sustainable development in the built environment

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This book is just a beginning. It seeks to address the issues related to the evaluation of sustainable development within the built environment and to provide a way forward. It is about how we can recognise, structure and assess all those factors that affect whether a development is sustainable in the medium to long term. It is also about how we try to balance these factors and how this contributes to our understanding of sustainability. It is not exhaustive as the authors believe there is still much to learn and to develop but it is hoped that it will provide another step towards a better approach to the subject.
It is designed for practitioners and students who are interested in the subject and wish to evaluate the impact of a development within the built environment in terms of its sustainability. At the time of writing there is considerable activity related to sustainability from a wide variety of sources. There are world congresses, lists of sustainability
indicators, government policies and funding programmes, all trying to address the issue. Many of these are limited and only seem to address part of the problem. The interaction between people and the built environment, the contribution of human decision-making in its widest sense and the interdependence between all the various factors that make up a sustainable development are not always present.
This book will focus on two main issues. These are, firstly, how do we create a structure of knowledge and thinking which will allow us to develop a vocabulary which all participants in sustainable development can own and to which they will feel able to contribute and, secondly, how do we assess progress in sustainable development? The first is important because it enables a dialogue to take place between all the stakeholders in such a way that the complexity of the problem can be exposed, structured and communicated in order to gain confidence from all the parties.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

624.068 PET e

Penerbit

Oxford : Blackwell Science., 2005

Deskripsi Fisik

viii, 232 halaman

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0632064862

Klasifikasi

624.068

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text

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Ed.1

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Fakultas Teknik
Teknik Lingkungan
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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Peter S. Brandon

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