Dictionary of Ecodesign: An Illustrated Reference

Yeang and Woo's Dictionary of Ecodesign covers a broad range of topics including climate change, ecology, the environment, engineering, and pollution. In any new field of study the first reference works often struggle to clearly define the range of the field. Yeang and Woo acknowledge this difficulty in the Preface and accept that “such an endeavour cannot be totally comprehensive, … in this regard we seek your help in letting us know what we should have included so that future editions can be improved”.

Perhaps not surprisingly the entry on Ecodesign is one of the largest in the Dictionary. According...