Landscape and Sustainability

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-01-16
Publisher(s): Spon Press
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Summary

This unique book is about landscape, sustainability and the practices of the professions which plan, design and manage landscapes at many scales and in many locations; urban, suburban and rural. Despite the ubiquity of 'sustainability' as a concept, this is the first book to address the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability in a comprehensive way. Much in the book is underpinned by landscape ecology, in contrast to the idea of landscape as only appealing to the eye or aspiring cerebrally to be fine art. As this book argues, landscape is and must be much more than this; landscape architecture is about making places which are biologically wholesome, socially just and spiritually rewarding.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Notes on contributors ix
List of figures
xii
List of tables
xvii
The Scale and Scope of Landscape and Sustainability
1(11)
John F. Benson
Maggie H. Roe
The Ethics of Sustainability
12(21)
Ian H. Thompson
The Landscape of Sustainable Economics
33(19)
Colin Price
The Social Dimensions of Landscape Sustainability
52(26)
Maggie H. Roe
International Policies and Landscape Protection
78(19)
Adrian Phillips
Landscape Sustainability at the National and Regional Scales
97(14)
Paul Selman
Landscape Planning At the Regional Scale
111(18)
Sue Kidd
Managing Whole Landscapes in the Post-Productive Rural Environment
129(28)
Robert MacFarlane
Landscape Planning and City Form
157(22)
Helen Armstrong
Helen Brown
Tom Turner
Resources: The Raw Materials of Landscape
179(23)
Nigel Dunnett
Andy Clayden
Sustainable Landscape Design In Practice
202(33)
Michael Herrmann
Chris Royffe
Andy Millard
The Community and The Landscape Professional
235(29)
Maggie H. Roe
Maisie Rowe
Sustainable Landscape Management
264(30)
Tony Kendle
Juliet E. Rose
Junko Oikawa
Visions of Sustainability
294(18)
Kristina Hill
Index 312

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