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BL
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726058
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b545788
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Peter S Brandon and Patrizia Lombardi.
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Evaluating sustainable development in the built environment\ Peter S Brandon and Patrizia Lombardi.
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| Edition Statement
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2nd ed
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| Publication Statement
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
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(xv, 264 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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1444327879
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: 9781444327878
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| Contents
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About the Authors --;Preface --;Acknowledgements --;1 Setting the Context for Evaluating Sustainable Development --;The environmental perspective --;The international policy debates --;Extension of the debate --;The impact of the built environment --;The current response of the built environment community --;Sustainability: a definition --;Seeking a shared set of values --;Striving for a common framework and classification system --;The characteristics of assessment and measurement for sustainable development --;Management and intervention for sustainable development --;Implementing management decisions --;Summary --;2 Time and Sustainability --;Innovation and stability --;Perceptions of sustainable development --;Critical failure points --;Time in evaluation --;Future aversion --;Clever or wise? --;Practical assessment of 'time' --;The luxury of the 'time' horizon --;3 Approaches to Evaluation --;The Natural Step --;The concept of community capital --;The ecological footprint --;Monetary (capital) approach --;The driving force-state-response model --;Issues or theme-based frameworks --;Accounting frameworks --;Frameworks of assessment methods' tool kits --;Summary and conclusions --;4 Indicators and Measures --;Why evaluate? --;Traditional versus sustainable development indicators --;Generic and specific questions --;International indicators --;Aggregated indicators --;Discussion --;Summary --;5 Assessment Methods --;A directory of assessment methods --;An outline summary of the main assessment methods, tools and procedures in use --;Summary and conclusions --;6 A Proposed Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Development --;The need for a holistic and integrated framework --;The theoretical underpinning of the framework --;The built environment explained by the modalities --;The 15 modalities for understanding sustainable development in the built environment --;Development of the multi-modal framework for decision-making --;Key questions for examining sustainable development within each modality --;Synthesis of results --;Summary --;7 The Framework as a Structuring Tool: Case Studies --;Case study 1: selection of a municipal waste treatment system --;Case study 2: evaluation of sustainable redevelopment scenarios for an urban area --;Case study 3: 'multi-stakeholder' urban regeneration decision-making --;Case study 4: social reporting of Modena City strategic plan --;Summary and conclusion --;8 Towards Management Systems and Protocols --;Who manages? --;The planning framework --;Management in a learning organisation --;Soft system methodology --;Wicked problems --;Process protocols --;A possible approach --;The Vancouver study --;The conclusions of the Vancouver study --;Follow through on the Vancouver study --;Resilience --;9 Education and Research --;A research agenda --;In conclusion --;Appendix A: The Philosophy of the 'Cosmonomic Idea of Reality' --;References --;Websites --;Bibliography --;Index.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects.
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Sustainable architecture.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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HT241.P484 2011
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P L Lombardi
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P S Brandon
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