Ecodesign : a manual for ecological design / Ken Yeang.

What is ecodesign? -- The objective of ecodesign -- The basis for ecodesign -- Ecomimicry -- The general law and theoretical basis for ecodesign -- Interrogate the premises for the design -- Differentiate whether the design is for a product (with no fixed abode or with a temporary abode) or for a structure or an infrastructure (both abode or site specific) -- Determine the level of environmental integration that can be achieved in the design -- Evaluate the ecological history of the site (for the designed system) -- Inventory the designed system's ecosystem (site-specific design) -- Delineate the designed system's boundary as a human-made or composite ecosystem in relation to the site's ecosystem -- Design to balance the biotic and abiotic components of the designed system -- Design to improve existing, and to create new ecological linkages -- Design to reduce the heat-island effect of the built environment on the ecology of the locality -- Design to reduce the consequences of the various modes of transportation and of the provision of access and vehicular parking for the designed system -- Design to integrate with the wider planning context and urban infrastructure of the designed system -- Design for improved internal comfort conditions (of the designed system as an enclosure) -- Design to optimise all passive-mode (or bioclimatic design) options in the designed system -- Design to optimise all mixed-mode options in the designed system -- Design to optimise all full-mode options in the designed system -- Design to optimise productive-mode options in the designed system -- Design to optimise composite-mode options in the designed system -- Design to internally integrate biomass with the designed system's inorganic mass (eg by means of internal landscaping, improved indoor air quality (IAQ) considerations, etc) -- Design for water conservation, recycling, harvesting, etc -- Design for wastewater and sewage treatment and recycling systems -- Design for food production and independence -- Design the built system's use of materials to minimise waste based on the analogy with the recycling properties of the ecosystem -- Design for vertical integration -- Design to reduce light and noise pollution of the ecosystems -- Designing the built environment as the transient management of materials and energy input flows -- Designing to conserve the use of non-renewable energy and material resources -- Design for the management of outputs from the built environment and their integration with the natural environment -- Design the built system over its life cycle from source to reintegration -- Design using environmentally benign materials, furniture, fittings, equipment (FF&E) and products that can be continuously reused, recycled and reintegrated -- Design to reduce the use of ecosystem and biospheric services and impacts on the shared global environment (systemic integration) -- Reassess the overall design (ie product, structure or infrastructure) in its totality for the level of environmental integration over its life cycle -- What is the green aesthetic? -- Issues of practice -- The future of ecodesign -- App. 1. Timeline of key international developments relating to the global environment -- App. 2. Sustainable development -- App. 3. The Rio Principles.