Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of regenerative landscape design / edited by Robert L. France.

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

France, R. L. (Robert Lawrence)

Description

444 p. : ill., maps, plans; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Integrative studies in water management and land development

Uniform Title

• Environmental Information Services Collection.
• Integrative studies in water management and land development.

Subject

• Landscape design
• Restoration ecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I. Landfill islands -- To love a landfill: the history and future of fresh kills / Robin Nagle -- Restoration of drastically disturbed sites: spectacle island landfill, Boston harbor / Phil J. Craul and Clarissa Rowe -- Part II. Canals and creeks -- The Zurich Stream Daylighting Program / Fritz Conradin and Reinhard Buchli -- A multifaceted, community-driven effort to revitalize an urban watershed: the Lower Phalen Creek Project / Sarah Clark and Amy Middleton -- Retrieving buried creeks in Seattle: political and institutional barriers to urban daylighting projects / Kit O'Neill and Peggy Gaynor -- Part III. Coasts -- Wherefore the Rhizome?: eelgrass restoration in the Narragansett Bay / Cheryl Foster -- Bottom-up community-based coral reef and fisheries restoration in Indonesia, Panama, and Palau / Thomas Goreau and Wolf Hilbertz --^
• Coastal ecosystem restoration through green infrastructure: a decade of success in reviving shellfish beds with a stormwater wetland in Massachusetts / Mark Rasmussen and Stephanie Hurley -- Intermezzo -- Com'era, Dov'era: battling water, time and neglect with MOSE and other techno-fix reparations in Venice / Robert France -- Part IV. Communities -- Detroit (re)turns to nature / Stephen Vogel -- Rebuilding salmon relations: participatory ecological restoration as community healing / Rene Senos -- Renovation of Byzantine Qanats in Syria as a water source for contemporary settlements /Joshka Wessels and Robert Hoogeveen -- Growing green infrastructure along the Urban River: Duwamish Stories / Nathaniel S. Cormier -- Residential street design with watersheds in mind: toward ecological streets / Stephanie Hurley and Megan Wilson Stromberg -- Part V. Heritage Sites -- Cultural and environmental restoration design in Northern California Indian country / Laura Kadlecik and Mike Wilson --^
• Preserving cultural and natural resources: the site development plan for the Sumpter Valley Dredge Heritage Area / Carol Mayer-Reed -- Part VI. Regions -- Extreme projects: ecological restoration needs to address altered ecosystems at larger spatial scales / Steve I. Apfelbaum and Neil Thomas -- Sudbury, Canada: from pollution record holder to award winning restoration site / John M. Gunn [and others] -- Finale -- Passerelle: bridging concerns, contentions and conflicts in the sociology of restoring serenity to Venic / Robert L. France -- Conclusion -- Reparative paradigms: sociological lessons for Venice from regenerative landscape design.

ISBN

• 9780849391880 (alk. paper)
• 0849391881 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007025439

OCLC

• 85691176
• SCSB-10672706

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library