Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment (Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design)

ISBN 10: 0415829771 / ISBN 13: 9780415829779

Published by Routledge, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment (Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415829771
• ISBN 13: 9780415829779
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Today’s most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change.

Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture, urban design, industrial design and engineering, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, waste management and public policy.

Aimed especially at designers and architects, Motivating Change explores the diversity of current approaches to change, and the multiple ways in which behaviour can be understood as an enactment of values and beliefs, standards and habitual practices in daily life, and more broadly in the urban environment.

About the Author

Robert Crocker is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia and teaches in both the history and theory of design and in the School’s Master of Sustainable Design program. He is a member of the Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour. His most recent publication was Designing for Zero Waste (Routledge, Earthscan, 2012), a book he also co-edited with Steffen Lehmann.

Steffen Lehmann is the Director of the Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour at the University of South Australia. Steffen is a widely published author and scholar and is Founding Director of the s_Lab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (Sydney-Berlin). A German-born architect and urban designer, he is editor of the US based Journal of Green Building and an advisor to Australian and German government, city councils and industry.