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Pragmatic ecologies: situating sustainable building
Architectural Science Review, 2010Debates about sustainable architecture and cities are shaped by different social interests and diverse agendas, based on differ-ent interpretations of the environmental challenge and characterized by different pathways, each pointing towards a range of sustainable futures.
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New Materials for Ecological Building Products
2012In this chapter, recent activities of our research group in the field of innovative materials are shown, inspired by the need of developing and using lower impact and better performing materials. Examples of use of materials from renewable resources, of biopolymers, of innovative reinforcing fibres and of hybrid organic–inorganic composites are ...
FRANCESE, DORA +3 more
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Building ecology, building biology, ecopsychology
2023Patkó, Csilla, Lányi, Erzsébet
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Building social-ecological protection for Belgium
This document is a summary of a report produced as part of the "PRotections Et risques sociaux-écologiques en TransitionS" (PRETS, Protections and Social-ecological Risks in Transitions) project commissioned by the Federal Public Service (FPS) Social Security and led by a consortium of researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain ...Vielle, Pascale +7 more
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Building ecologically in China
2010Researchers from TU Delft are trying to help with the construction of an ecocity in China, but cultural differences are turning the project into a hornets’ nest.
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Capacity Building for Ecological Modernization
American Behavioral Scientist, 2002Environmental policy development in 30 advanced and developing countries is examined using the capacity-building approach. Findings indicate that an appropriate mix of institutions is decisive for policy performance and that formal institutionalization is helpful for longer term policy-learning processes.
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The Urban Ecology of Tall Buildings
1988Ecology can be defined as the study of the relationships among objects and organisms within an environment. It is the study not of the creatures and objects themselves, but rather of the relationships among them and the functions they perform in their setting (Burgess, 1925; Hoyt, 1939; Harris and Ullman, 1945).
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