Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

Robert L. France, Robert L. France, Lawrence Coffman (Prince George's County Government, Largo, MD, USA) , Glenn Allen (George Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)

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CRC Press
30 June 2020

Landscape art & architecture; Drought & water supply; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Development

"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."

Contributions by: Lawrence Coffman (Prince George's County Government Largo MD USA), Glenn Allen (George Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), Catherine Berris
Edited by: Robert L. France, Robert L. France
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367578602
ISBN 10: 0367578603
Series: Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Development
Pages: 699
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert L. France

Reviews for Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

The book demonstrated an extremely broad range of interests and professional approaches within water-sensitive planning and design. It will be an important reference to environmental hydrogeologists, hydrologists, scientists, and graduate students. - Fakhry A. Assaad, Consultant Geologist and Data Analyst, in International Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 49, No. 3, June 2006 To the practitioner, the chapters dedicated to built projects offer the most value. Here designers speculate upon the meaning of a renewed attitude and relationship with water when brought to the built form of their projects. These projects, such as 'Water Gardens as Stormwater Infrastructure (Portland, Oregon)' by Thomas Liptan and Robert Murase, showcase how a water sensitive approach is as much about conceptual principles and technical skills as it is about enriched artistic expression. -Matthew J. Tucker, Conservation Design Forum