Over the last decade, the unsustainability of the current economic model, based on the so-
called take-make-dispose paradigm, has emerged. In particular, the agro-food sector (AFS) …

Regenerative design holds great promise for a new era of sustainable and positive impact
architecture, sparking considerable interest among architects, building professionals and …

In this book, I tried to unearth the truth behind common perceptions of sustainable
architecture. For more than 40 years, the energy efficiency reductionism paradigm has been …

Changing consumer behaviour can reduce environmental impacts. Upcycling is one of the
understudied yet promising, environmentally sustainable behaviours that has the potential to …

Sustainable product design uses methodologies focused on eco-effectiveness and eco-
efficiency for the proposal of innovative technological solutions and for the control of …

Purpose There is low adoption rate of existing environmentally sustainable construction
frameworks. Contractors have dwindled capability to adapt to environmentally sustainable …

The goal of this study is to develop life cycle based implementation strategies for the
realization of buildings with a positive ecological footprint (EF). Since there is no …

This chapter is aim to discuss the concept of ecological performance which extended from
environmental performance. Sustainable development has become a concerned focus …

With the continuous rise of global urbanization, city planners and policymakers are
increasingly concerned with urban heat islands (UHI), which are metropolitan areas that are …

Sustainable product design uses methodologies focused on eco-effectiveness and eco-
efficiency for the proposal of innovative technological solutions and for the control of …