Environmental Applications
4th edition
by William M. Marsh
Landscape Planning 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
Contents
- Landscape Planning: Roots, Problems, and Content
- The Physiographic Framework of the United States and Canada
- Landscape Form and Function in Planning
- Topography, Slopes, and Land Use Planning
- Soil, Land Use Suitability, and Waste Disposal
- Soils and Wastewater Disposal Systems
- Groundwater, Land Use, and Aquifer Protection
- Stormwater Discharge, Water Management, and Landscape Change
- Watersheds, Drainage Nets, and Land use
- Streamflow, River Valleys, and Flood Hazard
- Water Quality, Runoff, and Land Use
- Soil Erosion, Land Use, and Stream Sedimentation
- Best Management Practices, Watersheds, and Development Sites
- Streams, Channel Forms, and the Riparian Landscape
- Shoreline Processes, Sand Dunes, and Coastal Zone Management
- Sun Angles, Solar Heating, and Environment
- Microclimate, Air Pollution, and Urban Environment
- Ground Frost, Permafrost, Land Use, and Environment
- Vegetation, Land Use, and Environmental Assessment
- Landscape Ecology, Land Use, and Habitat Conservation Planning
- Wetlands, Habitat, and Land Use Planning
Appendices
- U.S. and Canadian Soil Classification Systems
- Landforms and Soil Materials and Their Drainage Characteristics
- U.S. Raw Surface Water Standards for Public Water Supplies
- U.S. National Air Quality Standards
- U.S. Noise Standards
- Common and Scientific Names of North American Wetland Plants
Index
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