How Long to Read Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development

How Long Does it Take to Read Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 35 minutes to read Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development by Janis Birkeland

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities. Positive Development theory holds that development could create more net ecological and social gains than no construction at all. It explains how existing conceptual, physical and institutional structures are inherently biased against the preservation and expansion of social and natural life-support systems, and proposes explicit reforms to planning, design and decision making that would enable development to increase future options and social and natural life-support systems - in absolute terms. Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development is aimed at students, academics, professionals and sustainability advocates who wonder why existing approaches have been ineffective. It explains how to reform the anti-ecological biases in our current frameworks of environmental governance, planning, decision making and design - and suggests how to make these changes. Cities can increase both the 'public estate' (reduce social stratification, inequity and other causes of conflict, increase environmental quality, wellbeing and access to basic needs, etc.); and the 'ecological base' (sequester more carbon and produce more energy than used during construction and operation, increase ecological space to support ecological carrying capacity, ecosystem functions and services, restore the bioregions and wilderness, etc.). No small task, this new book provides academic theory and professional tools for saving the planet, including a free computer app for net-positive design.

How long is Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development?

Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development by Janis Birkeland is 386 pages long, and a total of 98,816 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 121% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 59 minutes to read Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development aloud.

What Reading Level is Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development?

Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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