THE MOST EFFICIENT INFRASTRUCTURE IS ‘DESIGN WITH NATURE’ – START WITH WATER SUSTAINBILITY: “Human settlement should be in relative balance with the ecology that supports it,” wrote Tim Pringle (President’s Perspective, February 2011)
In 2011, Tim Pringle foreshadowed the Ecological Accounting Process. “Designing with nature is efficient. It amounts to using income from natural capital rather than drawing down the resource. The key principle is that settlement and ecology are equal values. This condition supports better control of the life-cycle costs of providing infrastructure for the built environment. By designing with nature, as it were, communities lessen and sometimes avoid the expense of engineering and building various kinds of infrastructure,” he wrote.