文档介绍：Dictionary of Ecodesign
This guide to the terminology of sustainable design is the first dictionary of its kind and provides accurate
and relevant information on ecodesign terminology and topics to students, lecturers, conservation
associations and advocates, designers, and all those whose work impinges on the environment.
The dictionary has ecological, environmental, scientific, and design terms from professions as varied
as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology and ecology, public policy, architecture, landscape archi-
tecture, and urban planning. By consolidating terms from the various disciplines, the dictionary provides
a useful source of reference for technical, scientific, and design explanations and definitions.
There is an increasing number of terms used in this growing field; this illustrated dictionary provides
over 1500 terms to provide mon language and terminology for everyone who is interested in
environmental conservation and design.
Ken Yeang is an architect, planner and ecologist whose design, masterplanning and built works are at
the cutting edge of green design. He is Chairman of Llewelyn Davies Yeang (UK) and principal of its
sister firm, Hamzah & Yeang (Malaysia). With a PhD from Cambridge University, Yeang has authored six
books on ecodesign. Yeang has received over 35 awards for his designs and is regarded as one of the
foremost designer, theoretician and thinker in the field of green design and planning. He is regarded
as the inventor of the ‘bioclimatic skyscraper’. The Guardian magazine in 2008 refers to Yeang as
one of the 50 people who could save the .
Lillian Woo is an economist and political consultant, has consulted in hundreds of state and federal
campaigns, including US President. She has specialized in public policy and regulatory issues.
Woo holds graduate degrees from Columbia University. She has authored two books.
Yeang and Woo are currently working on a new book, Ecomimesis: Ecological Design for the Built