Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications | 
 enlarge | Author: William M. Marsh
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 593707
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471485837
Dewey Decimal Number: 712
EAN: 9780471485834
ASIN: 0471485837
Publication Date: January 24, 2005
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Product Description
Increasingly landscape planning requires an understanding of how the landscape functions. Marsh's book provides a unique integration of landscape architecture, forestry, ecology, and geography.
This Fourth Edition incorporates the rapid expansions taking place in the field. It addresses several topics of concern in both public and private sectors such as flooding wetlands, species conservation, and groundwater. Readers will also discover how physical geography, planning, and landscape architecture relate to environmental problems and issues.
* An overview of environmental topics as applied to development, land use, and environmental problems of the landscape
* Focuses on landscape processes, systems, forms, and analysis
* Places greater emphasis on urban environments and site-scale problems
* Arms the reader with a collection of best management practices, which can be applied in the field
* Presents updated case studies that examine planning and design problems
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 Wetlands overview March 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Clearly explained wetland designations and issues. Good in preparation for the LARE exams part B.
Where Physical Geography & Env. Planning share common ground December 16, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This may be one of the best introductions to environmental planning for geography students interested in the application of physical geographic techniques. When inquiring minds ask how a Geography major like myself ended up doing septic plan review as a county Environmental Health Specialist I simply point to Marsh's chapter on waste disposal and describe the necessary physical parameters familiar to physical geographers (soil types and percolation rates, groundwater levels, slopes and topography, surface water, geohazards, mapping, etc). There is something for everybody in this book and you don't have to be a geography major to benefit. A very practical text.
 Environmental Planning November 26, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a student in environmental planning and have found this book to be extremely useful. It address a variey of things such as watershed, storm discharge, streamflow, etc. It really gives the reader an idea of how to design with nature.
Great book December 26, 1999
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book was a great tool for the beginning landscape architect. Many great tools for land planning including equations and tables and charts to determine various things like water runoff, erosion, sun exposure, and much more.
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