
Sustainability and Design Ethics
Tom Russ(Author)
CRC Press
1st Edition
Published on 23. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-4398-0854-2 (ISBN)
Description
From microcosm to macrocosm, ecodesign, green design, environmental design, and triple bottom line are quickly becoming more than just catchy phrases that describe touchy-feely trends. Increases in climate uncertainty and energy costs as well as food, water, and services insecurity are just a few of the challenges driving the growing demand for sustainable design outcomes. Sustainability and Design Ethics provides a systematic value analysis that makes a reasoned argument the rethinking of current design methods and the values and ethics which guide them.
Providing context and language, this book delineates the ideas and principles that lie at the foundation of a variety of codes of ethics, and then critically analyzes existing published codes and the practices that stem from them. It takes a practical approach, discussing applied ethics, and relies upon an understanding of the moral reasoning that supports the ideas and professionalism and an ethical standard of care. Drawing on the author's experience as a design professional and his study of business ethics, this book supplies a detailed exposition of the underlying ethical reasoning involved in the challenges confronted by contemporary design professionals. This information can then be distilled into sustainable practices and the corresponding ethics.
Sustainability requires design professionals to expand the considerations of design beyond the traditional ethical points of view and to provide a balanced analysis of how a sustainable standard of care might be composed. While other books might cover the environment and design, professional ethics are addressed as an afterthought at most, if at all. And no other book available explores sustainability from a designer's perspective. Examining present and future issues facing practitioners, the book provides a context for the values and ethics necessary for sustainable development design.
Providing context and language, this book delineates the ideas and principles that lie at the foundation of a variety of codes of ethics, and then critically analyzes existing published codes and the practices that stem from them. It takes a practical approach, discussing applied ethics, and relies upon an understanding of the moral reasoning that supports the ideas and professionalism and an ethical standard of care. Drawing on the author's experience as a design professional and his study of business ethics, this book supplies a detailed exposition of the underlying ethical reasoning involved in the challenges confronted by contemporary design professionals. This information can then be distilled into sustainable practices and the corresponding ethics.
Sustainability requires design professionals to expand the considerations of design beyond the traditional ethical points of view and to provide a balanced analysis of how a sustainable standard of care might be composed. While other books might cover the environment and design, professional ethics are addressed as an afterthought at most, if at all. And no other book available explores sustainability from a designer's perspective. Examining present and future issues facing practitioners, the book provides a context for the values and ethics necessary for sustainable development design.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bosa Roca
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Engineers and design professionals in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Architects, Landscape Architects and other environmental professionals. Graduate students in land use and planning as well as newly licensed design professionals and others new to sustainability
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
N/A, 4 s/w Tabellen
N/A; N/A; 4 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4398-0854-2 (9781439808542)
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Tom Russ
Sustainability and Design Ethics
Book
07/2017
1st Edition
CRC Press
€222.84
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Person
College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, USA
Content
Why Does Prometheus Suffer?
Sustainability and Design
Why Sustainability Is Needed
Notes
Professional Ethics
What Is a Profession?
Evaluating Codes of Ethics
Sustainability and the Ethical Challenges for Designers
Endnotes
Bibliography
Is There an Ethical Obligation to Act Sustainably? Theories of Ethics
What Obligations Do We Have to Other Living Things?
Utilitarian Views of Nature
Speciesism
Who Owns the Environment?
Role of Professional Standards
Endnotes
The Design Professional and Organizations
Balancing Obligation and Opportunity
The Descent of Corporate Obligation
Justification for a Whistle-Blower
Endnotes
The Choice for Sustainability
The Design Professional as Leader
Sustainability and Obligation
Sustainability and Design Ethics
Endnotes
The Precautionary Principle and Design
Moral Underpinnings of the Precautionary Principle
Precautionary Principle and Design
What Do We Owe the Future?
Duty to Prevent Harm
Precaution and Design
Endnotes
Flourishing
What Ought We to Do?
Designer as Teacher
Design Values
Designer as Student
Endnotes
Sustainability and Design
Why Sustainability Is Needed
Notes
Professional Ethics
What Is a Profession?
Evaluating Codes of Ethics
Sustainability and the Ethical Challenges for Designers
Endnotes
Bibliography
Is There an Ethical Obligation to Act Sustainably? Theories of Ethics
What Obligations Do We Have to Other Living Things?
Utilitarian Views of Nature
Speciesism
Who Owns the Environment?
Role of Professional Standards
Endnotes
The Design Professional and Organizations
Balancing Obligation and Opportunity
The Descent of Corporate Obligation
Justification for a Whistle-Blower
Endnotes
The Choice for Sustainability
The Design Professional as Leader
Sustainability and Obligation
Sustainability and Design Ethics
Endnotes
The Precautionary Principle and Design
Moral Underpinnings of the Precautionary Principle
Precautionary Principle and Design
What Do We Owe the Future?
Duty to Prevent Harm
Precaution and Design
Endnotes
Flourishing
What Ought We to Do?
Designer as Teacher
Design Values
Designer as Student
Endnotes