Low Impact Development
"LID often also increases ecological diversity, challenging dominant understandings of an inevitably antagonistic relationship between ‘humans’ and ‘nature’. In construction LIDs employ natural, reclaimed and/or local materials, renewable technologies and are generally engaged in their own ethical and organic food production. LIDs are designed to support sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles by minimising vehicle use, reducing costs (and, hence, the need to travel to earn money) and reducing consumption."
Maxey, L and Pickerill, J (2009) Geographies of Sustainability: Low Impact Developments and Radical Spaces of Innovation. Geography Compass 3/4 (2009): 1515–1539
Discussions and Publications on Low-Impact Development
- Low-Impact Development: the Future in Our Hands by Jenny Pickerill and Larch Maxey
- Maxey, L and Pickerill, J (2009) Geographies of Sustainability: Low Impact Developments and Radical Spaces of Innovation. Geography Compass 3/4 (2009): 1515–1539
- Thorpe, David (2015) The One Planet Life. A guidebook for everyone on the path towards a way of life in which we don’t act as if we had more than one planet Earth.
- Low Impact website offers a huge host of practical information and discussion.
Existing LID Projects
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