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Saving the environment from continued devastation by our built environment is the single most important issue for tomorrow, feeding into our post-millennial fears that this third millennium will indeed be our last.

Ken Yeang details how and why our current design approach and perception of architecture must radically change if we are to ensure a sustainable future. He argues forcefully that this can only be achieved by adopting the environmentalist's view that regards our environment simply as an assembly of materials that are transiently concentrated on to a single locality and used for living, working, and leisure, and whose footprints affect that locality's ecology and whose eventual disposal has to be accommodated somewhere in the biosphere.

This manual offers clear instructions to designers on how to design, build, and use a green sustainable architecture. The aim is to produce and maintain ecosystem-like structures and systems whose content and outputs not only integrate benignly with the natural environment, but whose built form and systems function with sensitivity to the locality's ecology as well in relation to global biospheric processes, and contribute positively to biodiversity (as opposed to reducing it).

Ecodesign provides designers with a comprehensive set of strategies for approaching ecological design and planning combined with in-depth analysis and research material not found elsewhere. 512 pp.

Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design - Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter A: General Premises and Strategies
• Chapter B: Design Instructions
• Chapter C: Other Considerations
• C4 Appendix 1 Timeline of key international developments relating to the global environment
• C5 Appendix 2 Sustainable development
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index