Landscape Planning Environmental Applications - Couverture souple

Marsh, William A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0471485837 ISBN 13 : 9780471485834

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Increasingly landscape planning requires an understanding of how the landscape functions. Marsh's book provides a unique integration of landscape architecture, forestry, ecology, and geography. This Fourth Edition incorporates the rapid expansions taking place in the field. It addresses several topics of concern in both public and private sectors such as flooding wetlands, species conservation, and groundwater. Readers will also discover how physical geography, planning, and landscape architecture relate to environmental problems and issues. It provides an overview of environmental topics as applied to development, land use, and environmental problems of the landscape. It focuses on landscape processes, systems, forms, and analysis and places greater emphasis on urban environments and site-scale problems. It arms the reader with a collection of best management practices, which can be applied in the field. It presents updated case studies that examine planning and design problems.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

"There is a predictable sameness creeping over the face of the North American landscape. Since the early 1970s, highways, shopping centers, residential subdivisions, and most other forms of development have taken on a remarkable similarity from coast to coast We know that this facade of development masks an inherently diverse landscape rooted in the varied physiographic and ecological character of the continent and this in turn reflects differences in the way the terrestrial environment functions. Does it not seem reasonable then that development and land use should also reflect these differences if they are to be responsive to the environment?" This authoritative text provides comprehensive coverage on the key methods and techniques involved in environmental planning. The third edition is extensively updated and revised to incorporate the rapid expansions taking place in this field. By focusing on landscape processes, systems, forms, and analysis, Marsh’s book has received much praise and is an excellent complement to Ian McHarg’s Design With Nature (Wiley, 1995).

Présentation de l'éditeur

With its wide variety of topics and up–to–date coverage, the fifth edition is an excellent resource for landscape planners and designers, scientists, and environmentalists. It focuses on environmental problems associated with land planning, landscape design, and land use. New coverage is included on adaptive planning as an approach necessary to build a sustainable landscape. Greater emphasis is placed on systems and updated case studies are integrated throughout the chapters. This edition also arms the reader with a collection of best management practices, which can be applied in the field.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471485837
• ISBN 13: 9780471485834
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 472
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible