A fusion of ecological restoration and sustainable development principles, ecocultural restorative redevelopment is an emerging method for repairing large-scale landscapes. This book explores how to use this approach to address the long-term, sustainable reparation of the fabled marshlands of southern Iraq destroyed by Saddam Hussein. It reviews successfully implemented and celebrated case studies from more than 15 countries around the world which, either in whole or in part, can offer valuable insight into the restorative redevelopment of the Iraqi marshlands as well as other devastated ecocultural landscapes such as tsunami hit Indonesia or monsoon ridden Burma.
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Landscape Conservation & Countryside Management
Sustainable Engineering
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What if environmentally damaged landscapes could not only be remediated from an ecological standpoint, but also designed to replenish an entire community and the nature surrounding it? Focusing on integrated solutions that incorporate community needs, this book balances remediation strategies with design needs for creating a sustainable community on repaired lands. It provides a new paradigm for environmental restoration and the renewal of urban and cultural sites. The book is one in only a handful to address the system conditions necessary for the repair of severely degraded landscapes such as industrial landfills, Superfund sites, and abandoned factories, and more.
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Landscape Conservation & Countryside Management
Hazardous Waste & Materials
Pollution
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With contributions from prominent experts and scholars, the Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design pushes the frontier of standard water management toward new directions, guiding views outward to the exciting and incompletely mapped regions of true interdisciplinary water sensitive planning and design. Divided into two thematic sections, the handbook presents water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and presents current research on the subjects of stormwater management, wetlands park creation, riparian zones, and watershed management.
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Water Engineering
Landscape Conservation & Countryside Management
Ecology - Environment Studies
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