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Title:
Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design.
ISBN:
9781420032420

9780367801342
Physical Description:
1 online resource (726 pages).
Series:
Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve.
Contents:
Front cover -- Series Statement -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Contents -- Background -- Perspectives of water management: Representative examples from the recent literature -- part I: Water sensitive design -- chapter I.1 Stormwater management and stormwater restoration -- chapter I.2 Successful stormwater management ponds (Massachusetts) -- chapter I.3 Open spaces and impervious surfaces: Model development principles and benefits -- chapter I.4 Post-industrial watersheds: Retrofits and restorative redevelopment (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) -- chapter I.5 Low-impact development: An alternative stormwater management technology -- chapter I.6 Water gardens as stormwater infrastructure (Portland, Oregon) -- chapter I.7 Retaining water: Technical support for capturing parking lot runoff (Ithaca, New York) -- chapter I.8 A productive stormwater park (Farmington, Minnesota) -- chapter I.9 A stormwater wetland becomes a natural park (British Columbia, Canada) -- chapter I.10 Wetlands-based indirect potable reuse project (West Palm Beach, Florida) -- chapter I.11 Restoring urban wetland -- Pond systems (Boston, Massachusetts) -- chapter I.12 Water connections: Wetlands for science instruction (Wichita, Kansas) -- chapter I.13 Constructed wetlands and stormwater management at the Northern Water Feature (Sydney Olympic Park) -- chapter I.14 Principles and applications of wetland park creation -- chapter I.15 Applications of low-impact development techniques (Maryland) -- chapter I.16 Applications of low-impact development techniques (Maryland) -- chapter I.17 Integrating ecology, geomorphology, and bioengineering for watershed-friendly design -- part II: Water sensitive planning -- chapter II.2 River restoration planning (Connecticut) -- chapter II.3 Greenways as green infrastructure in the new millennium.

Chapter II.4 Natural resource stewardshit planning and design: Fresh Pond Reservation (Massachsetts) -- chapter II.5 Treating rivers as systems to meet multiple objectives -- chapter II.6 What progress has been made in the Remedial Action Plan program after ten years of effort? (Ontario, Canada) -- chapter II.7 Watershed management plans: Bridging from science to policy to operations (San Francisco, California) -- chapter II.8 Watershed assessment planning process (Johnson County, Kansas) -- chapter II.9 Urban watershed management (Detroit, Michigan) -- chapter II.10 Modeling a soil moisture index using geographic information systems in a developing country context (Thailand) -- chapter II.11 The design of regions: a watershed planning approach to sustainability -- chapter II.12 GIS watershed mapping: Developing and implementing a watershed natural resources inventory (New Hampshire) -- chapter II.13 The effect of spatial location in land-water interactions: A comparison of two modeling approaches to support watershed planning (Newfoundland, Canada) -- chapter II.14 Spatial investigation of applying Ontario's timber management guidelines -- GIS analysis for riparian areas of concern -- chapter II.15 Aquifer recharge management model Evaulating the impact of urban development on groundwater resources (Galilee, Israel) -- chapter II.16 Factors influencing sediment transport from logging roads near borreal trout lakes (Ontario, Canada) -- chapter II.17 Limnology, plumbing and planning: Evaluation of nutrient-based limits to shoreline development in Precambrian Shield watersheds -- Social and political issues in management riparian buffers and corridors -- Multiple objectives in watershed management through use of GIS analysis -- Postscript: Implementing water sensitive planning and design -- Index -- Back cover.
Abstract:
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.
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