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Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 5th Edition
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, July 2010, Pages: 528
With its wide variety of topics and up-to-date coverage, Landscape Planning 5e is an excellent resource for students in a variety of disciplines including landscape planning, geography and environmental studies. 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 student with a collection of the best management practices, which can be applied in the field.
New to this edition:
- Now features adaptive planning and design in many chapters along with increased attention to sustainability and GIS applications.
- Integrates updated case studies—plus 4 new case studies—throughout the chapters.
- Includes a new chapter on System-Based Planning and places greater emphasis on systems to highlight how to create truly sustainable landscapes.
- More than 75 new photographs and pieces of line art
- Includes a new synthesising final chapter describing an approach to building framework plans for landscape design and land use
- Offers a collection of best management practices, which can be applied in the field.
Features
- Interdisciplinary treatment includes material from geography, landscape architecture, geomorphology, planning, ecology, landscape ecology, civil engineering and related fields.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the twenty essential areas of landscape/environmental planning.
- Over 250 photos and illustrations. More than 200 of these are line graphics.
- Concisely written chapters focus on the most important aspects of each topic.
- Abundant, easy to read diagrams further communicate the message of each chapter.
- Key words in margins facilitate reference to various topics.
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