Overview

"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 planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management. This text pushes the frontiers of standard water management in new directions, challenging readers into abandoning the comfortable safety of conducting business-as-usual within narrow disciplinary confines, and instead directing views outward to the exciting and incompletely mapped regions of true interdisciplinary water sensitive planning and design. With contributions from renowned practitioners, Part I provides seventeen chapters addressing the subject of site-specific water sensitive design and Part II presents another seventeen chapters focusing on issues relating to the water sensitive planning of riparian buffers and watersheds. In addition, Professor France has provided a ""Response"" to accompany each chapter, which succinctly underscores the salient features in more detail and emphasizes cross-linking to other chapters in the book. The ""Overview"" provides a brief road-map to navigate through the section. Finally, the discussion summaries at the end of each section elaborate on past problems, current challenges, and future directions. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design puts forward the very best of modern water sensitive planning and design and should be required reading for everyone involved in this dynamic and crucial field."

Full Product Details

Author:   Robert L. France ,  Robert L. France ,  Lawrence Coffman (Prince George's County Government, Largo, MD, USA) ,  Glenn Allen (George Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367578602

ISBN 10:   0367578603
Pages:   699
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

WATER SENSITIVE DESIGN. Stormwater Management and Stormwater Restoration. Successful Stormwater Management Ponds. Open Spaces and Impervious Surfaces. Post-Industrial Watersheds. Low Impact Development. Watergardens as Stormwater Infrastructure. Retaining Water. A Productive Stormwater Park. A Stormwater Wetland Becomes a Nature Park. Wetlands-Based Indirect Potable Reuse Project. Restoring Urban Wetland – Pond Systems. Water Connections. Constructed Wetlands and Stormwater Management at the Northern Water Feature. Principles and Applications of Wetland Park Creation. Applications of Low Impact Development Techniques. Restoring and Protecting a Small Urban Lake. Integrated Ecology, Geomorphology, and Bioengineering for Watershed-friendly Design. WATER SENSITIVE PLANNING. Shoreline Buffers. River Restoration Planning. Greenways as Green Infrastructure in the New Millennium. Natural Resource Stewardship Planning. Treating Rivers as Systems to Meet Multiple Objectives. What Progress Has Been Made in the Remedial Action Plan Program After Ten Years of Effort? Watershed Management Plans. Watershed Assessment Planning Process Assessment. Urban Watershed Management. Modeling a Soil Moisture Spatial Index Using GIS in a Developing Country Context. The Design of Regions. GIS Watershed. The Effect of Spatial Location in Lake-Water Interactions. Spatial Investigation of Applying Timber Management Guidelines. Aquifer Management Recharge Model. Factors Influencing Sediment Transport From Logging Roads near Boreal Trout Lakes. Limnology, Plumbing and Planning.

Reviews

The book demonstrated an extremely broad range of interests and professional approaches within water-sensitive planning and design. It will be an important reference to environmental hydrogeologists, hydrologists, scientists, and graduate students. - Fakhry A. Assaad, Consultant Geologist and Data Analyst, in International Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 49, No. 3, June 2006 To the practitioner, the chapters dedicated to built projects offer the most value. Here designers speculate upon the meaning of a renewed attitude and relationship with water when brought to the built form of their projects. These projects, such as 'Water Gardens as Stormwater Infrastructure (Portland, Oregon)' by Thomas Liptan and Robert Murase, showcase how a water sensitive approach is as much about conceptual principles and technical skills as it is about enriched artistic expression. -Matthew J. Tucker, Conservation Design Forum

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