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Environmental Restoration and Design for Recreation and Ecotourism
Series: Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development
A wetland center in London, parks in downtown San Francisco, a wildlife sanctuary in Arcata, and a wetlands park on the outskirts of Las Vegas—what do these urban and suburban locations have in common? They are leading examples of a new restoration design approach that is squarely placed at the...
Published November 15th 2011 by CRC Press
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Restorative Redevelopment of Devastated Ecocultural Landscapes
Series: Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve
A fusion of ecological restoration and sustainable development, restorative redevelopment represents an emerging paradigm for remediating landscapes. Rather than merely fixing the broken bits and pieces of nature, restorative development advocates the reuse of devastated landscapes to improve the...
Published July 18th 2010 by CRC Press
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Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design
Series: Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve
What if environmentally damaged landscapes could not only be remediated from an ecological standpoint, but also designed to replenish an entire community as well as the nature surrounding it? The Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design incorporates ecology, engineering, sociology, and design...
Published October 17th 2007 by CRC Press
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Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design
Series: Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve
Design options and planning procedures must be critically examined to ensure that landscapes are created with sensitivity to water quality and management issues as well as overall ecological integrity. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design presents the history of water as a design and...
Published May 28th 2002 by CRC Press