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Biodiversity Targets as the Basis for Green Design |
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| Authors: | Mike Wells Ken Yeang |
| Abstract: | Mike Wells , the Director of Biodiversity by Design, and Ken Yeang outline the need for biodiversity targets in architecture to provide a more far-reaching basis for green design. Rather than just literally ‘greening’ a building by covering it with foliage, they seek to encourage designers to engage with wider ecological processes and in more specific detail. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | urban ‘greening’ International Convention on Biological Diversity designing with, and for, the locality's ecological systems biodiverse environments are associated with greater human psychological health benefits ‘ecobridges’ ‘ecoundercrofts’ ‘SMART’: Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-scaled ‘keystone’ species ‘flagship species’ ‘umbrella’ species ‘indicator’ species ‘healing’ species Singapore National Parks Board wetland mosaic Secchi disc readings. |
