environmental problem

"Design for Sustainability" signals the crucial paradigm shift of the 21st Century: the transition from "environmental management" to "systems design" - eco-solutions that integrate social, political, and economic factors and radically reduce resource use, while increasing health, equity and life quality.By using 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.

• cargo containers
• compare contrast
• design materials
• design thinking
• economic factors
• environmental management
• environmental problem
• environmental sciences
• foremost designers
• health equity
• housing design
• industrial design
• innovative design solutions
• integrated systems design
• life quality
• paradigm shift
• professional boundaries
• resource use
• traditional academic
• transdisciplinary approach

The Politics of the Earth provides an excellent and accessible introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. John Dryzek analyses the various approaches which have dominated environmental issues over the last three decades, and which are likely to be influential in the future: Survivalism - based on the contention that the earth has a limited stock of resources and prescribes drastic multidimensional action to prevent global disaster, receiving a reply from Promethans who deny such limits exist.

• accessible introduction
• discourses
• earth
• ecological democracy
• ecological problems
• economic values
• environmental issues
• environmental politics and policy
• environmental problem
• global disaster
• human consciousness
• industrial society
• multidimensional
• radicalism
• reply
• rise and fall
• strengths and weaknesses
• survivalism
• three decades
• tractable