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"Marsh (U. of British Columbia and emeritus U. of Michigan) presents the 25th anniversary edition of his textbook and guide explaining how to deal reasonably with the land in the face of expanding land use and changing technology. Most readers will be in the early stages of their career, he suggests, and he hopes to establish some basic principles they can adapt and apply for a long time." (Book News Inc, November 2010)
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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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A predictable sameness is creeping over the face of the North American landscape. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book,
This review is from: Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 3rd Edition (Paperback)
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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Environmental Planning,
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This review is from: Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 3rd Edition (Paperback)
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.
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Great book,
By davidpio@students.uiuc.edu - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 3rd Edition (Paperback)
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Where Physical Geography & Env. Planning share common ground,
By James Safranek "Holocene Meltwater" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 3rd Edition (Paperback)
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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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excellent book!,
By S. Buchner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications (Paperback)
I'd recommend this book especially to any Earth/Environmental Science Majors. I actually just read this entire book cramming for an Environmental Planning exam (I was originally just going to skim some chapters). I wish I'd been reading it all along! There's a lot of cross-over with a Geology class I'm taking too.Chapter 3 is one of the best explanations of the form/function(process) relationship in terms of the environment that I've ever read. I also found Chapter 9 very insightful concerning drainage basins. The diagrams and pictures are incredible. There is just enough technical scientific detail in the book to get a really good understanding of processes without overloading you with too many complicated equations. |
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