Environmental Design
Ideally, Environmental design involves systemic, integrative, comprehensive, adaptive processes of identifying, assessing, interpreting and communicating environment- and health-related factors likely to influence projects, plans, decisions, policies, and individual and management actions. Increasingly, this field of design is employed in the development of construction projects, natural resources management, and industrial and consumer products. The discipline derives from and integrates with such other disciplines as architecture and interiors design, landscaping, environmental assessment, and sustainability science.
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Light pollution
Light pollution is the intrusion of unwanted or unneeded artificial light into a man-made or natural environment. A variety of somewhat separate phenomena comprise the... More »
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Healthy Community Design
The way we design and build our communities can affect our physical and mental health. Healthy community design integrates evidence-based health strategies into community... More »
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EPA on School Siting
This article, written by Bob Weinhold*, appeared first in Environmental Health Perspectives—the peer-reviewed, open access journal of the National Institute of... More »
Urban yards as birds' refuges
Last Updated on 2012-08-23 at 16:19
Urban yards with plants that mimic native vegetation offer birds "mini-refuges" and help to offset losses of biodiversity in cities,. Such purposeful landscaping with... More »
EPA on School Siting
Last Updated on 2012-05-07 at 19:11
This article, written by Bob Weinhold*, appeared first in Environmental Health Perspectives—the peer-reviewed, open access journal of the National Institute of... More »
API oil-water separator
Last Updated on 2012-03-08 at 11:35
An API oil-water separator is a device designed to separate gross amounts of oil and suspended solids from the wastewater effluents of petroleum refineries, petrochemical and... More »
Healthy Community Design
Last Updated on 2012-02-21 at 12:05
The way we design and build our communities can affect our physical and mental health. Healthy community design integrates evidence-based health strategies into community... More »
Habitat fragmentation in densely populated landscapes
Last Updated on 2011-12-06 at 10:05
Habitat fragmentation in densely populated landscapes is a major ecological threat over a large fraction of the Earth. Globally there has been an extraordinary surge in urban... More »
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