Handbook of regenerative landscape design. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert L. France.
• Other Names: France, R. L (Robert Lawrence)
• Contents: Foreword ; Visible Cities: A Meditation on Civic Engagement for Urban Sustainability and Landscape Regeneration; R.M. Abbott ; Preface ; Environmental Reparation with People in Mind: Regenerative Landscape Design at the Interface of Nature and Culture; R. France ; Overture ; Aqua Alta : Venice, the New Atlantis? R. France ; PART I. LANDFILL ISLANDS ; To Love a Landfill: The History and Future of Fresh Kills; R. Nagle ; Restoration of Drastically Disturbed Sites: Spectacle Island Landfill, Boston Harbor; P.J. Craul and C.L. Rowe ; PART II. CANALS AND CREEKS ; The Zurich Stream Daylighting Program; F. Conradin and R. Buchli ; A Multifaceted, Community-Driven Effort to Revitalize an Urban Watershed: The Lower Phalen Creek Project; A. Middleton and S. Clark ; Retrieving Buried Creeks in Seattle: Political and Institutional Barriers to Urban Daylighting Projects; K. O’Neill and P. Gaynor ; PART III. COASTS ; Wherefore the Rhizome? Eelgrass Restoration in the Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; C. Foster ; Bottom-Up Community-Based Coral Reef and Fisheries Restoration in Indonesia, Panama, and Palau; T. Goreau and W. Hilbertz ; Coastal Ecosystem Restoration Through Green Infrastructure: A Decade of Success in Reviving Shellfish Beds with a Stormwater Wetland in Massachusetts; M. Rasmussen and S. Hurley ; Intermezzo ; Com’era, Dov’era : Battling Water, Time, and Neglect With MOSE and Other Techno-Fix Reparations in Venice; R. France ; PART IV. COMMUNITIES ; Detroit (Re)Turns to Nature; S. Vogel ; Rebuilding Salmon Relations: Participatory Ecological Restoration as Community Healing; R. Senos ; Renovation of Byzantine Qanats in Syria as a Water Source for Contemporary Settlements; J. Wessels and R.J.A. Hoogeveen ; Growing Green Infrastructure Along the Urban River: Duwamish Stories; Nathaniel Cormier ; Residential Street Design with Watersheds in Mind: Toward Ecological Streets; S. Hurley and M.W. Stromberg ; PART V. HERITAGE SITES ; Cultural and Environmental Restoration Design in Northern California Indian Country; L. Kadlecik and M. Wilson ; Preserving Cultural and Natural Resources: The Site Development Plan for the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge Heritage Area; C. Mayer-Reed ; PART VI. REGIONS ; Extreme Projects: Ecological Restoration Needs to Address Altered Ecosystems at Larger Spatial Scales; S.I. Apfelbaum and N. Thomas ; Sudbury, Canada: From Air Pollution Record Holder to Award Winning Restoration Site; J.M. Gunn, P.J. Becket, W.E. Launtenbach, and S. Monet ; Finale ; Passerelle : Bridging Concerns, Contentions and Conflicts in Restoring Serenity in Venice; R. France ; Conclusion ; Reparative Paradigms: Sociological Lessons for Venice from Regenerative Landscape Design; R. France ; Index
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (444 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 333.71/53; Landscape design; Restoration ecology; NATURE -- Natural Resources; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business; Landscape design; Restoration ecology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780849391880; 0849391881; 9781420008739; 1420008730
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.