Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design
Design options and planning procedures must be critically examined to ensure that landscapes are created with sensitivity to water quality and management issues as well as overall ecological integrity. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management. This text pushes the frontiers of standard water management in new directions, challenging readers into...
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Design options and planning procedures must be critically examined to ensure that landscapes are created with sensitivity to water quality and management issues as well as overall ecological integrity. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management. This text pushes the frontiers of standard water management in new directions, challenging readers into abandoning the comfortable safety of conducting business-as-usual within narrow disciplinary confines, and instead directing views outward to the exciting and incompletely mapped regions of true interdisciplinary water sensitive planning and design. With contributions from renowned practitioners, Part I provides seventeen chapters addressing the subject of site-specific water sensitive design and Part II presents another seventeen chapters focusing on issues relating to the water sensitive planning of riparian buffers and watersheds. In addition, Professor France has provided a "Response" to accompany each chapter, which succinctly underscores the salient features in more detail and emphasizes cross-linking to other chapters in the book. The "Overview" provides a brief road-map to navigate through the section. Finally, the discussion summaries at the end of each section elaborate on past problems, current challenges, and future directions. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design puts forward the very best of modern water sensitive planning and design and should be required reading for everyone involved in this dynamic and crucial field. Booknews This work presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management, water sensitive planning, and design. Practitioners in landscape architecture, fisheries resource management, civil engineering, citizen activism, and watershed policy management address the subject of site-specific water sensitive design and look at issues related to the water sensitive planning of riparian buffers and watersheds. The editor provides a response to accompany each contribution, summarizing the chapter and emphasizing links to other chapters. Discussion summaries at the end of each section look at past problems and future directions. France teaches landscape ecology and directs the Center for Technology and Environment at Harvard University. Material originated at a Spring 2000 symposium held at Harvard University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Series statementForewordPrefaceBackground - Perspectives of water management: Representative examples from the recent literature1Pt. IWater Sensitive DesignOverview: New interpretations in stormwater management and wetland park creation9I.1Stormwater management and stormwater restoration11Response - Stormwater infiltration: Curing the disease rather than treating the symptomsI.2Successful stormwater management ponds (Massachusetts)31Response - Cenralized stormwater treatment: Improving performance through engineering designI.3Open spaces and impervious surfaces: Model development principles and benefits49Response - Using computer scenarios to improve site designI.4Post-industrial watersheds: Retrofits and restorative redevelopment (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)67Response - Raising consciousness through interdisciplinary design workshopsI.5Low-impact development: An alternative stormwater management technology97Response - Thinking big, acting small: Multi-tasking and the benefits of dispersed micromanagementI.6Water gardens as stormwater infrastructure (Portland, Oregn)125Response - Letting it soak inI.7Retaining water: Technical support for capturing parking lot runoff (Ithaca, New York)155Response - To build an oxymoron: A green parking lotI.8A productive stormwater park (Farmington, Minnesota)175Response - Successfully marrying form and function in stormwater managementI.9A stormwater wetland becomes a nature park (British Columbia, Canada)193Response - Naturalized design: Triumph of imagination and innovationI.10Wetlands-based indirect potable reuse project (West Palm Beach, Florida)205Response - Treating wastewater with innovative technologyI.11Restoring urban wetland - pond systems (Boston, Massachusetts)215Response - Project development through concerned citizenryI.12Water connections: Wetlands for science instruction (Wichita, Kansas)235Response - Project development of interpretive wetlands235I.13Constructed wetlands and stormwater management at the Northern Water Feature (Sydney Olympic Park)247Response - Highly visible water: Recreating a landscape for public useI.14Principles and applications of wetland park creation263Response - Designing wetlands for multiple benefitsI.15Applications of low-impact development techniques (Maryland)297Response - Values of demonstration projects and case studies of stormwater source managementI.16Restoring and protecting a small, urban lake (Boston, Massachusetts)317Response - Buying time by bioengineeringI.17Integrated ecology, geomorphology, and bioengineering for watershed-friendly design341Response - Sustainability through interdisciplinarityDiscussion summary: Constraints, challenges, and opportunities in implementing innovative stormwater management techniques355Discussion summary: Moving from single-purpose treatment wetlands towards multifunction designed wetlands parks357Pt. IIWater Sensitive PlanningOverview: New interpretations in the management of watersheds and riparian buffers and corridors359II.1Shoreline buffers: Protecting water quality and biological diversity (New Hampshire)361Response - Buffer strips: More than green eyelashes?II.2River restoration planning (Connecticut)379Response - Water quality improvements are not enoughII.3Greenways as green infrastructure in the new millennium395Response - Corridors that integrate natural, societal, and social elementsII.4Natural resource stewardship planning and design: Fresh Pond Reservation (Massachusetts)407Response - Protecting and restoring treasured landscapes: Complexity and integrationII.5Treating rivers as systems to meet multiple objectives431Response - Beyond the banks: Holistic planning of rivers as more than the sum of their partsII.6What progress has been made in the Remedial Action Plan program after ten years of effort? (Ontario, Canada)445Response - Measuring recovery of impaired watersII.7Watershed management plans: Bridging from science to policy to operations (San Francisco, California)459Response - Sociology of implementing adaptive managementII.8Watershed assessment planning process assessment (Johnson County, Kansas)477Response - Managing suburban watersheds for multiple objectivesII.9Urban watershed management (Detroit, Michigan)491Response - Looking beyond the end of the pipe491II.10Modeling a soil moisture index using geographic information systems in a developing country context (Thailand)513Response - Incorporating scientific information into land-use planningII.11The design of regions: A watershed planning approach to sustainability541Response - Expanding planning vision in space and timeII.12GIS watershed mapping: Developing and implementing a watershed natural resources inventory (New Hampshire)557Response - Janus planning: Using computer tools to look backward and forward simultaneouslyII.13The effect of spatial location in land-water interactions: A comparison of two modeling approaches to support watershed planning (Newfoundland, Canada)577Response - Linking land use to landscapes for water quality protectionII.14Spatial investigation of applying Ontario's timber management guidelines: GIS analysis for riparian areas of concern601Response - Size mattersII.15Aquifer recharge management model: Evaluating the impacts of urban development on groundwater resources (Galilee, Israel)615Response - Planning by examining alternativesII.16Factors influencing sediment trasport from logging roads near boreal trout lakes (Ontario, Canada)635Response - Empirically testing planning assumptionsII.17Limnology, plumbing and planning: Evaluation of nutrient-based limits to shoreline development in Precambrian Shield watersheds647Response - Land-lake linkages and land-use limitsDicusion summary: Social and political issues in managing riparian buffers and corridors683Discussion summary: Multiple objectives in watershed management through use of GIS analysis685Postscript: Implementing water sensitive planning and design687Index689
\ From The CriticsThis work presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management, water sensitive planning, and design. Practitioners in landscape architecture, fisheries resource management, civil engineering, citizen activism, and watershed policy management address the subject of site-specific water sensitive design and look at issues related to the water sensitive planning of riparian buffers and watersheds. The editor provides a response to accompany each contribution, summarizing the chapter and emphasizing links to other chapters. Discussion summaries at the end of each section look at past problems and future directions. France teaches landscape ecology and directs the Center for Technology and Environment at Harvard University. Material originated at a Spring 2000 symposium held at Harvard University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
