Topic
Ecological design
About: Ecological design is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 499 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6927 citations. The topic is also known as: ecodesign.
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University of Maryland, College Park1, Duke University2, University of California, Santa Cruz3, University of New Mexico4, Princeton University5, Ecological Society of America6, David and Lucile Packard Foundation7, United States Geological Survey8, Johns Hopkins University9, University of Calgary10, Stanford University11, University of Michigan12, University of California, Santa Barbara13, University of Colorado Boulder14, University of Wisconsin-Madison15
TL;DR: The authors of this Policy Forum describe changes that are required if the authors hope to meet the needs and aspirations of humans while improving the health of their planet9s ecosystems.
Abstract: Within the next 50 to 100 years, the support and maintenance of an extended human family of 8 to 11 billion people will be difficult at best. The authors of this
Policy Forum
describe changes that are required if we hope to meet the needs and aspirations of humans while improving the health of our planet9s ecosystems. Problems as diverse as disease transmission and global climate change have benefited substantially from advances in ecology. Such advances have set the stage for emergence of a proactive ecological science in which social and political realities are acknowledged and attention is turned decisively toward the future. The ecological sciences must chart an understanding of how ecosystem services can persist given their extensive human use. Innovative research on the sciences of ecosystem services, ecological restoration, and ecological design must be massively accelerated and must be accompanied by more effective communication of ecological knowledge to society.
588 citations
Book•
1 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a classification of ecological engineering and ecosystem restoration, including watershed and river restoration, mine and disturbed land restoration, and treatment wetland creation and restoration.
Abstract: Preface.I. INTRODUCTION.1. Why Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration.2. Definitions.3. Classification of Ecological Engineering.4. Ecosystms.5. Ecological Design Principles. II. APPLICATIONS OF ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING.6. Lake and Reservoir Restoration.7. STream and River Restoration.8. Wetland Creation and Restoration.9. Coastal Restoration.10. Treatment Wetlands.11. Bioremediation: Restoration of Contaminated Soils.12. Mine and Disturbed Land Restoration.13. Ecological Engineering in China.III. ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING TOOLS.14. Modeling in Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration.References.Organism Index.Subject Index.
435 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the relationship between diverse technical design strategies and competing conceptions of ecological place making and highlight the conceptual challenges involved in defining what we mean by calling a building "green" and outline a social constructivist perspective on the development of sustainable architecture.
Abstract: This paper examines the relationships between diverse technical design strategies and competing conceptions of ecological place making. It highlights the conceptual challenges involved in defining what we mean by calling a building “green” and outlines a social constructivist perspective on the development of sustainable architecture. The paper identifies six alternative logics of ecological design which have their roots in competing conceptions of environmentalism, and explores the ways in which each logic prefigures technological strategies and alternative visions of sustainable places. Finally, the paper discusses the implications of the contested nature of ecological design for architectural education, practice, and research.
310 citations
TL;DR: The emerging discipline of ecological engineering is a response to the growing need for engineering practice to provide for human welfare while at the same time protecting the natural environment from which goods and services are drawn as mentioned in this paper.
306 citations
Book•
7 May 2010
TL;DR: Gross as discussed by the authors examines the relationship between ignorance and surprise, proposes a conceptual framework for handling the unexpected and offers case studies of ecological design that demonstrate the advantages of allowing for surprises and including ignorance in the design and negotiation processes.
Abstract: Ignorance and surprise belong together: surprises can make people aware of their own ignorance. And yet, perhaps paradoxically, a surprising event in scientific research--one that defies prediction or risk assessment--is often a window to new and unexpected knowledge. In this book, Matthias Gross examines the relationship between ignorance and surprise, proposing a conceptual framework for handling the unexpected and offering case studies of ecological design that demonstrate the advantages of allowing for surprises and including ignorance in the design and negotiation processes. Gross draws on classical and contemporary sociological accounts of ignorance and surprise in science and ecology and integrates these with the idea of experiment in society. He develops a notion of how unexpected occurrences can be incorporated into a model of scientific and technological development that includes the experimental handling of surprises. Gross discusses different projects in ecological design, including Chicago's restoration of the shoreline of Lake Michigan and Germany's revitalization of brownfields near Leipzig. These cases show how ignorance and surprise can successfully play out in ecological design projects, and how the acknowledgment of the unknown can become a part of decision making. The appropriation of surprises can lead to robust design strategies. Ecological design, Gross argues, is neither a linear process of master planning nor a process of trial and error but a carefully coordinated process of dealing with unexpected turns by means of experimental practice.
292 citations
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| 2025 | 7 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2021 | 26 |
| 2020 | 22 |