Landscape Conservation, Maintenance and Management Books

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31. Science and Conservation of Vernal Pools in Northeastern North America

    Ecology and Conservation of Seasonal Wetlands in Northeastern North America

    By Aram J. K. Calhoun, Phillip G. DeMaynadier

    Synthesizes Decades of Research on Vernal Pools Science Pulling together information from a broad array of sources, Science and Conservation of Vernal Pools in Northeastern North America is a guide to the issues and solutions surrounding seasonal pools. Drawing on 15 years of experience, the...

    Published August 12th 2007 by CRC Press
32. Professional Practice for Landscape Architects

    2nd Edition

    By Nicola Garmory, Clare Winsch, Rachel Tennant

    This book, organised in an extremely-user friendly manner, equips the landscape architect with all of the required knowledge in business and law. It is of great value to Landscape architects throughout their academic and professional life. Landscape architecture students will find this book vital...

    Published February 5th 2007 by Routledge
33. Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity

    Edited by Eva M. Spehn, Maximo Liberman, Christian Korner

    Part of the worldwide biodiversity program DIVERSITAS, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) assesses the biological richness of high-elevation biota. GMBA’s focus includes the uppermost forest regions or their substitute rangeland vegetation, the treeline ecotone, and the alpine and...

    Published January 12th 2006 by CRC Press
34. Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling

    Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics

    Edited by Sabine Grunwald

    Series: Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment

    Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling: Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics presents the latest methodological developments in soil-landscape modeling. It analyzes many recently developed measurement tools, and explains computer-related and pedometric techniques that are invaluable...

    Published October 3rd 2005 by CRC Press
35. Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning

    Technology and Applications

    Edited by Ian Bishop, Eckart Lange

    This major reference presents the challenges, issues and directions of computer-based visualization of the natural and built environment and the role of such visualization in landscape and environmental planning. It offers a uniquely systematic approach to the potential of visualization and the...

    Published June 8th 2005 by Taylor & Francis
36. Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes

    Edited by Andre Viljoen, Joe Howe

    This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the...

    Published February 21st 2005 by Routledge
37. Porous Pavements

    By Bruce K. Ferguson

    Series: Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve

    Pavements are the most ubiquitous of all man-made structures, and they have an enormous impact on environmental quality. They are responsible for hydrocarbon pollutants, excess runoff, groundwater decline and the resulting local water shortages, temperature increases in the urban "heat island," and...

    Published February 17th 2005 by CRC Press
38. Great City Parks

    By Alan Tate

    Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why...

    Published May 13th 2004 by Taylor & Francis
39. Practical Dictionary of Environment, Nature Conservation and Land Use

    Edited by Johann Schreiner, Claus-Peter Hutter

    This dictionary defines more than 30,000 English terms in the fields of agriculture; air pollution abatement; biotope conservation; climate protection; ecology; environmental administration; environmental education; environmental engineering; environmental ethics; environmental information;...

    Published December 2nd 2003 by Medpharm
40. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

    Edited by Robert L. France

    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