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Section B: Critique of Methods,Tools and Processes in Building Design 
61
Chapter 4: Development Standards and Criteria
From ‘designed waste’ to zero waste
63
Chapter 5: Building Rating Tools
From best practice to a sustainability standard 
83
Chapter 6: Design Methods 
From eco-efficient to eco-productive buildings 
97
Section C: Critique of Methods, Tools and Processes in Environmental Management 
115
 
Chapter 7: Urban Sustainability Assessment
From predicting negative impacts to adding value
117
Chapter 8: Regional Sustainability Audits
From invisible to transparent resource transfers 
131
Chapter 9: Sustainability Reporting
From environmental accounting to management accountability
147
Section D: Critique of Trends in Strategies, Incentives and Planning 
163 
Chapter 10: Futures Thinking Tools
From predicting the unpredictable to expanding future options
165
Chapter 11: Eco-service Trading Schemes
From emissions tradeoffs to eco-service credits
181
Chapter 12: Bioregional Planning
From choosing among current options to designing futures 
201

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Positive Development
Section E: A framework for Eco-governance and Management 
217
Chapter 13: Constitution for Eco-governance
From interest balancing to ethical frameworks
219
Chapter 14: Reversing Resource Transfers
From pyramidal to positive resource distribution
235
Chapter 15: The SmartMode Process
From technocratic to integrated planning and design
251
Section F: Boxes 
275
Box 1
Net Positive Development 
277 
Box 2
Eco-logical design defined 
278
Box 3
Examples of net Positive Development 
279
Box 4
Green Scaffolding versus double skins 
281
Box 5
Green Scaffolding retrofit 
282
Box 6
Deconstruction
 (Neil Seldman)
283
Box 7
Excuses for not retrofitting 
284
Box 8
Retrofitting the suburbs 
285
Box 9
Solar Core 
286
Box 10 Linear-reductionist urban analysis 
287
Box 11 Urban density, compactness and urban form
 (Greg Bamford)
288
Box 12 The social dimension of urban consolidation 
(Patrick Nicol Troy)
289
Box 13 Water and sewage management 
(Sarah West) 
290
Box 14 Advantages of eco-roofs
 (Linda S. Velazquez)
292
Box 15 Net Positive (physical) Development criteria 
294
Box 16 Making positive impacts 
(Sonia Sales Mendoza)
295
Box 17 Urban wind energy 
296
Box 18 Solar powering the future
 (Keith Lovegrove) 
299
Box 19 E-waste 
(Robin Tennant-Wood)
300
Box 20 Designing for successful failure 
(Paul Bannister)
301
Box 21 The case of the steel-frame housing 
302
Box 22 Green building guidelines 
303
Box 23 Digital modelling for sustainability
 (Robin Drogemuller and John Frazer)
307
Box 24 Typology of green aesthetic orientations 
309
Box 25 Solar design myth-conceptions 
310
Box 26 Contextual design (the case of plastic) 
311
Box 27 Spectrum of design approaches 
312
Box 28 Green building and product procurement 
(David Baggs)
313
Box 29 Tools for specifying green building products
 (David Baggs)
314
Box 30 Evolution toward Positive Development 
315
Box 31 Potential of flows analyses
316
Box 32 Tools for capturing regional synergies
 (Glen Corder)
317
Box 33 Enhancing supply chain performance 
(Kumar Venkat)
318
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Box 34 Making progress 
(Richard Eckersley)
319
Box 35 From SoE to sustainability reporting for cities
 (Peter W. Newton)
320
Box 36 Certification and labelling 
(Tim Cadman)
321
Box 37 Ethical investment 
(Konrad Knerr)
322
Box 38 Engaging the public in sustainability planning 
(Dave Biggs)
323
Box 39 Closing loops between sectors
324
Box 40 Linking policies to outcomes 
(Ian Swain)
325
Box 41 Eco-service offsets versus credits 
327
Box 42 Economic valuation of eco-services
329
Box 43 Problems with pricing eco-services 
331
Box 44 Measuring living wall performance
 (Yael Stav)
332
Box 45 Decision trees – Terminal and reversible 
333
Box 46 Community management of ecosystems
 (David Eastburn)
334
Box 47 Wagga Wagga Eco-industrial Park 
(Sharon Stacy)
335
Box 48 Equity Mapping 
(James Byrne)
336
Box 49 Conventional approach to regulation 
337
Box 50 Organic waste to farms
 (Gerry Gillespie)
338
Box 51 Precycling insurance
 (James Greyson)
339
Box 52 Negative resource transfers 
340
Box 53 Converting negatives into positives 
341
Box 54 Reversing the role of fashion 
(Fabia Pryor)
342
Glossary 
343
Notes 
351
Biographies of contributors 
387
Index 
393
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