By Janis Birkeland, Feb 2002, 288pp, p/b, ISBN: 1-8568389-7-7

Design for Sustainability signals a crucial paradigm shift from 'environmental management' to 'systems design'

- eco-solutions that integrate social, political and economic factors and dramatically reduce resource use, while increasing health, equity and quality of life.

It presents inspiring, radical and detailed examples of integrated systems design by many of the foremost designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture, and energy and resource use.

They cut across traditional boundaries to move towards a new trans-disciplinary approach to environmental and social problem solving.

This is a valuable reference and teaching resource in areas from sustainability sciences to design and planning.

Each topic within the field of environmental management and social change had pairs of short readings providing diverse perspectives to compare, contrast and debate.