Landscape Planning
Environmental Applications
5. Edition July 2010
528 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
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.
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.
1. Landscape Planning: Roots, Problems, and Content
2. The Physiographic Framework of the United States and Canada
3. Landscape Form and Function in Planning and Design
4. Topography, Slopes, and Land Use Planning
5. Assessing Soil for Land Use Planning and Waste Disposal
6. Site, Soils, and Wastewater Disposal Systems
7. Groundwater Systems, Land Use Planning, and Aquifer Protection
8. Runoff and Stormwater Management in a Changing Landscape
9. Watersheds, Drainage Nets, and Land Use Planning
10. Streamflow, Floodplains, Flood Hazard, and Land Use Planning
11. Water Quality and Runoff Considerations in Landscape Management
12. Soil Erosion, Stream Sedimentation, and Landscape Management
13. Best Management Practices, Local Watersheds, and Development Sites
14. The Riparian Landscape: Streams, Channel Forms, and Valley Floors
15. The Coastal Landscape: Shoreline Systems, Landforms, and Management Considerations
16. Solar Climate near the Ground: Landscape and the Environment
17. Microclimate, Climate Change, and the Urban Landscape
18. Ground Frost, Permafrost, Land Use, and Environment
19. Vegetation, Land Use, and Environmental Assessment
20. Landscape Ecology, Land Use, and Habitat Conservation Planning
21. Wetlands, Habitat, and Land Use Planning
22. Framing the Land Use Plan: a Systems Approach
