Glossary of Sustainability
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| show | Usually defined as the population of humans or other species that a natural area can support without reducing its ability to support that species in the future.
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| What is Decarbonization | show 🗑
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| show | The reduction in materials (and energy) intensity of industrial production and products. Material flows through the economy are increasing.
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| What is Design for eco-services | show 🗑
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| show | The delivery of goods and services that satisfy human needs and enhance quality of life, while progressively reducing ecological impacts and resource intensity throughout the life cycle.
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| What is Ecological footprint | show 🗑
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| What is Ecosystem services | show 🗑
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| show | The total energy consumed by all activities associated with a production process including the portions of other products that contributed to it (like trucks)
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| show | An economic concept that refers to the costs and benefits of economic activites that are imposed on people outside the relationship or transaction. The term implies pollution is incidental.
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| What are Food Miles? | show 🗑
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| What is Front-loading design? | show 🗑
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| show | Where the replacement costs of resources were charged for their use. Full cost pricing is supposed to cover externalities, but does not include ecological waste.
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| What is genuine progress indicators? | show 🗑
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| What is Industrial ecology? | show 🗑
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| show | Refers to the inordinate benefits that a private business or organisation receives at the expense of the general public 'externalities' only reflect private costs imposed on the public.
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| What is Life cycle assessment (LCA)? | show 🗑
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| What are Living Machines? | show 🗑
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| show | A form of sustainability auditing that maps stocks and flow through an urban, industrial or regional area.
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| What is Metabolic analysis? | show 🗑
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| What is Positive Development | show 🗑
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| show | Refers to the idea that we should not use a lack of scientific evidence as an excuse for inaction in addressing an environmental problem.
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| What is Sustainability? | show 🗑
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| show | Requires an improvement in human and ecological health over what would have been the case if the development was not built. This means increasing the ecological base.
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| What is Ambient | show 🗑
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| show | The human-made environment
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| show | Technology that is low-impact and designed to serve human needs.
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| show | A light well of an interior covered courtyard that provides natural lighting.
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| What is best available technology | show 🗑
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| What is Best practice technology? | show 🗑
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| What are Bio Based materials? | show 🗑
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| show | Another term for carbohydrate economy, where carbohydrates replace hydrocarbons. Platns not minerals supply raw materials for factories.
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| show | A view of reality that puts nature at the centre, or values things in terms of ecological, as opposed to human- centered values.
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| What is Biodiversity? | show 🗑
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| show | Planning that starts from the ecology of a region, where regions are defined by biological rather than political boundries.
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| show | An analysis that considers relationships between indivduals, organisations or institutions, but does examine the entities themselves.
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| show | An industrial system where carbohydrates replace hydrocarbons.
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| show | The cycle where carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is converted to fibre by plants, and then release back into the atmosphere when plants rot or burn. Some carbon also becomes part of the carboniferous strata as coacl, natural gases or petroleum.
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| What is Carrying Capacity? | show 🗑
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| show | The channel through which products are distributed from their origin in the ground to their end use.
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| show | The reintergration of urban 'wastes' into human production and consumption activities.
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| show | Where waste heat and other environmental impacts are reprocessed and/or used for another prodcutive purpose (see no loop systems)
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| show | Residential community designed to encourage social interaction, self-managment, and sharing of facilities, while also reducing economic and environmental costs.
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| show | Public land sared by and accesible to the whole community
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| show | Communication links formed within and among resident communitities that facilitate sharing of information, knowledge and expertise
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| Community | show 🗑
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| show | A land use plan which seeks to implement a broad set of social goals such as ecologically sustainable develpment.
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| show | a form of planning approval where a project is permitted it it meets certain special requirements in addition to basic planning code restrictions.
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| Conserver Society | show 🗑
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| Contextual Design | show 🗑
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| Creative Play Environment | show 🗑
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| show | Parts of an environment that have been influenced by human activity and as such express human attitudes and values. A cutural landscape may exisit as an individual or collective memory, as well as a physical fabric.
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| show | Environmental impacts that are increased by the addition of succesive environmental impacts. This can lead to specific environmental impacts growing exponentially.
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| Cyclic economy | show 🗑
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| show | Where industrialised countries move away from high carbon fuel sources such as firewood and coal, to oil and low carbon sources such as natural gas.
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| Deconstruction | show 🗑
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| Deep Ecology | show 🗑
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| Defensive Expenditure. | show 🗑
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| Dematerialisation | show 🗑
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| Design for Dissasembly | show 🗑
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| Dominant Paradigm | show 🗑
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| Eco-cities | show 🗑
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| Eco-cycle/Eco-cycling | show 🗑
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| Eco-efficiency | show 🗑
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| show | A theory or paradigm that seeks to expose cultural assumptions that are used to legitimise ecological destruction. Ecofeminists have argued that human opression and the exploitation of nature are closely linked.
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| Eco-industrial park | show 🗑
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| show | adresses social and environmental needs while greatly reducing net resource/energy consumption or increasing positive social, economic and environmental spin-offs.
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| show | Design that is ecologically and socially responsible (empowering, restorative, eco-efficient, transformative)
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| Ecological footprint | show 🗑
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| show | A discourse that recognises the structural character of environmental problems, but nonetheless assumes that exisiting insitutions can internalise care for the environment.
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| Ecological sustainable design | show 🗑
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| Eco-Marxism | show 🗑
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| Economic growth | show 🗑
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| show | the reduction of average costs of production with increasing output, due to the sharing of fixed costs over a larger number of units means that the lower extra (marginal) cos of each additional unit causes the average cost per unit to fall.
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| Eco-socialism | show 🗑
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| Ecosystem services | show 🗑
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| Ecosystem | show 🗑
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| Edible landscapes | show 🗑
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| Efficiency | show 🗑
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| Emobodied energy | show 🗑
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| show | In relation to the full life cycle of material or product, it would also include the energy required for maintenence and repair, as awell as the demolition and disposal and reuse, nd the share of energy used in making equipment nd other supportingfunction
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| show | A market based system that allows firms (or other entites) to buy the pollution rights of less polluting entitites
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| show | Technologies used to minimise environmental pollution after it has been created. They are often criticised for not encouraging the prevention of pollution.
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| Energy | show 🗑
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| show | A means of assesing how well a buisness or building is meeting its environmental objectives
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| show | Environmental impacts and other burdens of development are not equally distributed between rich and poor in most countries and between Noth and South globally. Environmental justice is an area of research that seeks to adress these issues.
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| Environmental Managment Systems (EMS) | show 🗑
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| show | The team recognising that environmental problems require social, economic, and political as well as ecological responses.
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| Environmental services | show 🗑
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| Environmental space | show 🗑
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| show | The science of designing equipment and products so as to reduce human fatigue and discomfort (human factors engineering)
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| show | To pass on the environment and social costs of production and development to the public and future generations. (see internalise)
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| Externalities/Externality costs (or benefits) | show 🗑
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| Feng Shui | show 🗑
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| show | The are of carpet and soft furnishings divided by the volume of the room. The fleece factor indicates the size of the reservoir of dust and chemicals which continuosly exchange with the air, leading to degraded air quality in enclosed spaces
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| Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) | show 🗑
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| show | The progress of colonisation by large corporations throughout the world; economies become increasingly dependent through flows of capital and trade and trans-border asset ownership
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| Green Consumerism | show 🗑
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| Green Optimum | show 🗑
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| Greenhouse Gas | show 🗑
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| show | An evnironmental movement which identifies industrial growth and ill-advised government policies as major causes of environment destruction, and seeks social change through greater ecological understanding and more sustainable practices.
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| show | Refers to household water used for washing purposes, and not contaminated with sewage.
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| show | The total value of all final goods and services produced within a nation over a given period, usually a year.
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| Hemp | show 🗑
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| Incrementalism | show 🗑
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| Indigenous design | show 🗑
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| Indirect Energy | show 🗑
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| show | Industrial systems which emulate natural ecosystems by, for example, making maximum use of recycled materials in new production, optimising use of materials and embedded energy and using 'wastes' as raw material for other processes.
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| Industrial metabolism | show 🗑
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| Inherent value | show 🗑
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| show | The belief that things have value only to the extent that they contribute to human welfare.
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| Integrated pest managment | show 🗑
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| Life Cycle Assessment | show 🗑
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| show | Looks at the cost over the full life of an asset.
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| show | Qualitative measures that can be used to understand and measure the health of natural and human systems.
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| Light Shelves | show 🗑
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| show | Practice of allowing (urban or industrial) wastes to be created or disposed of in a manner which increases the use of resourcces, and in many cases does not support the functions of human and ecological systems.
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| Living Machines | show 🗑
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| show | A whole system approach to sustainability auditing that goes beyond simple input-output models to map the stocks and flows of materials through urban, industrial or regional areas.
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| Natural Capital | show 🗑
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| Natural Resource Managment | show 🗑
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| show | Products, industries, buildings, or cities designed such that vitrully no pollution or waste is created by the activity in the first place.
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| show | Where there are tradable pollution rights, firms are sometimes allowed to expand their production by paying for reductions in emisions from facilities to cpmpensate (offset) their own emissions.
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| show | Forest that is ecologically mature and has been subjected to negligible unnatural distrubance such as logging, mining road building and clearing.
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| show | A system which is not self-contained or that cannot be isolated from external influences
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| Operating Energy | show 🗑
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| Parabolic Louvres | show 🗑
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| show | An approach that divdes the design process into three phases 'parameter identification' or (problem setting). 'creating synthesis' (or problem solving), and evaluation. Undestanding the model allows the designer the freedom to look at one stage at a time.
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| show | The objective of making individuals or firms better off without making others worse off.
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| Permaculture | show 🗑
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| Perverse subsidies | show 🗑
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| show | These specify a standard or certain criteria (eg a maximum amout of emissions or a product energy rating) and allow businesses or industries to meet these criteria They can provide incentive to develope efficient tech that save costs and compete better.
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| show | Treed areas lacking most of the principal characteristics and key elements of native ecosystems resulting from planting, sowing or intensive silvicultural treatments
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| Playgardens | show 🗑
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| show | The idea that an industry can (in effect) pollute, as long as it pays compensation for the damage (eg through emissions charges, fines, tradable pollution rights) because industry will reduce pollution in order to save money or increase profits.
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| Post-industrial economy | show 🗑
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| show | the enthalpy or energy value of energy resources or flux sources in their natural state (for example, the enthalpy of raw coal or the energy value of wind or solar energy)
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| show | Industry the utilises raw materials, like forestry, mining, energy production and agriculture
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| show | Design that externalises the social costs of extraction, conversion, distribution of resources, and tends to concentrate land, material and energy in the interests of the powerful.
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| show | Refers to the total well-being which includes physical, mental, social and spiritual well being (not just material)
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| Rebound effect | show 🗑
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| show | The woody underground portion of the plant from which both roots and shoots grow, Clumpers (sympodial) and runners (monopodial) have very different forms of rhizomes, which accounts for their very different growth habit.
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| show | A methodology that tries to analyse the consequences of alternative futures
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| show | Illnesses caused by buildings, such as off-gassing of chemicals from synthetic furniture and building materials, air conditioning and so on. Not enough air changes per hour etc poor ventilation
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| show | A natural deposit formed from the disintergration of rock, which can be used as a binder, or natural cementing ages, in the construction of earch walls.
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| show | Where contaminants are absorbed into the material of soft furnishings.
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| Social ecology | show 🗑
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| Social Impact Assessment | show 🗑
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| show | This reflects the relationship between cultural ethics, social norms and development. An activity is socialy sustainabe if it conforms with ethica values and social norms, or does not stretch them beyond a community's tolerance of change
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| show | The measure of material living conditions and well-being. Standard of living is usually measured as per capita GDP, and a rising standard of living is equated with economic growth
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| Suburban Sprawl | show 🗑
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| show | The ability for future generations to achieve the same level of natural, social, and cultural resources enjoyed by the current generation.
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| show | Development that does not interfere with the functioning critial ecological process and life support systems.
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| show | A group planning process for identifying 'strenghts. weaknesses, opportunities and threats' with the aim of developing stratergies (strenghts and weaknesses refer to internal factors, opportunities and threats refer to external influences.
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| Symbiotic | show 🗑
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| show | Where elements acting in combination produce an effect greater than the sum of the parts or has an unexpected or enhanced effect
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| Techno-addiction | show 🗑
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| show | All of the products of design ranging from very simple artefacts such as toothpicks or shoes, to complex networks of systems, such as nationwide electrical powere distribution systems.
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| Termite Barrier | show 🗑
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| show | A centrl location of the queen and nurseries for a termite colony
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| show | The potential heat storage capacity of a material
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| show | Material conservation; a process (eg combustion) that has the same amount of materials before and after the chemical reaction.
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| show | Entropy or the degradation of energy from a concentrated form to a less concentrated form.
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| show | Rights to trade the difference between a pollution standard and the pollution allowed by exisiting laws.
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| Transparent Process | show 🗑
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| Tyranny of small decisions | show 🗑
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| Urban consolidation | show 🗑
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| show | The distribution of the population into small self suffiecient communities as opposed to urban consolidation
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| Urban metabolism | show 🗑
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| Urban villiage | show 🗑
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| show | The shift of population from rural to urban areas.
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| show | Where the public pays a charge to use resources, such as fees to enter parks or for fishing licences.
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| show | Designed for function and usefullness rather than aesthetics
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| show | A philosphy best known for the idea that the public decisions should be based on the greatest good for the greatest number.
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| show | Anything which, from a particular perspective and point in time, is no longer seen as usefull to some set of practices. Something that might be considered waste from one perspective or at one time, may be considered useful from another perspective or time
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| show | A development charactercised by industry and systems of production based on fossil fuels and high energy and mateial input (as opposed to a carbohydrate economy)
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| show | A mixture of noise of all frequencies, in the same way that white light is a mixture of all frequencies. White noise can be used to control and reduce the impact of ambient noise
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| Worker productivity | show 🗑
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| show | Human made chemcials
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