Wilson et al: Environment, Development, and Sustainability
Chapter 21
www.masdar.ae/home/index.aspx is the home page for the Masdar City initiative taking place near Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), which will be very ambitious in terms of being zero-energy and zero-waste with an estimated development budget of US$ 22 billion.
Finally, this site (Arup) gives Peter Head’s vision on ‘Entering the Ecological Age’
www.arup.com/Publications/Entering_an_Ecological_Age.aspx
The framework used here is that there will be three ages: the agricultural age, the industrial age (which we are currently claimed to be in), and the forthcoming, hopeful ecological age.
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