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

Designing for Zero Waste

Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment

By: Robert Crocker (Editor), Steffen Lehmann (Editor)

Paperback | 7 December 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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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'This book is both timely and visionary. It is to the credit of the authors that they have explored so many of the key issues and have provided an improved understanding of the topic.' Professor Peter Brandon, The Thinklab, University of Salford, UK

'In a world where more and more people are consuming more and generating more waste this book is vital reading. In a society where most of us are consciously and sub-consciously detached from the reality of our own supporting ecosystems this book is vital reading. In an economy where precious resources are produced so cheaply that we can throw so much of them away this book is vital reading. In an environment being stripped of its resources, being polluted and made toxic on an industrial scale this book provides a real chance to re-connect and re-think our relationship with the supply and waste streams we take for granted in our unsustainable lifestyles. That re-connection is essential and this book shows us ways to make it happen. Please read it.' Susan Roaf, Chair of Architectural Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

'Designing for Zero Waste is a timely resource and guide covering basic principles to city and regional governance. The flows of the waste created in our daily lives and building processes are largely ignored, misunderstood, or misinterpreted. This book should inspire a better understanding of material efficiency, avoidance of waste, and re-thinking material flows at a variety of scales and professions.' Professor Alison G. Kwok, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon, US

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