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Life Cycle Design

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This chapter outlines the relationship between environmental and economic aspects by briefly describing the main concepts. All the topics presented here represent a framework that can be explored more in-depth using the references provided. They will help the reader find the fil rouge of a sustainable approach linking economics and environmental architecture.

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Notes

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    For more clarification, review the theory of the circular system in Pearce and Turner (1990).

  2. 2.

    They are economic functions because they all have a positive economic value (Pearce and Turner 1990).

  3. 3.

    Considered as an exchange value on the market.

  4. 4.

    Cfr. Meadows et al. (1972a, b), (Falkie and McKelvey 1976), Boulding (1966), Al Gore (2007).

  5. 5.

    External costs or externalities = positive or negative consequence of an activity by an actor and experienced by a third party without there being any kind of agreement between the parties (in the sense that the damaged person/beneficiary does not want the damage/benefit and the damage/benefit is not paid by those who produce it).

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    http://env.cpp.edu/rs/rs (access on 31/10/2018).

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    In this field it is possible to cite several significant theories in urban and architectural experimentation: the concept of urban metabolism expressed, for example, in: the La synthèse écologique by Duvigneaud (1974); the Ville Spatiale (1958–2006) by Yona Friedman (Friedman 2016); the relationships between the environment and architecture characterised by the transformability and adaptability of one and the other; the concept of the Self-sufficient City defined by Guallart (2010) in which the city is an “urban habitat”, a multi-scalar system integrating environmental issue and urban planning. People, processes, information and flows of matter and energy are involved in the temporal sequence of the urban metabolism.

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Thiébat, F. (2019). The Environment and Economics. In: Life Cycle Design. PoliTO Springer Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11497-8_2

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