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"Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearberry shrubs. Unfortunately, this unique sense of place is under threat. In recent decades, contemporary landscape practices have come to depend on environmentally stressful fertilizers and irrigation systems, replacing this sensitive ecoregion's native flora with generic turfgrasses and popular commercial nursery trees and shrubs that could exist anywhere. Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands seeks to reverse this damaging trend by offering landscape professionals, local officials, and homeowners a sustainable approach to landscape design based on the ecoregion's native plants and plant communities. Presenting detailed discussions of Cape Cod's natural history, Jack Ahern focuses on the principal plant communities that define its landscape character and that are well adapted to local soils and growing conditions, including climate change. The book also includes strategies for ecological planting design and a portfolio of photographs of active ecologically designed landscapes"--

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Based on both research and practical experience, Ecological Landscape Design and Planning offers a holistic methodological approach to landscape design and planning. It focuses on the scarcity of natural resources in the Mediterranean and the need to aim for long-term ecological stability and environmental sustainability. The principles of this approach, therefore, can be used as a theoretical foundation for holistic landscape research, creative ecological design and better sustainable practice development.

Ecological landscape design. --- Ecological landscape design --- Regional planning --- Land use --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Planning --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Regional development --- State planning --- Ecologically sound landscape design --- Environmentally sound landscape design --- Government policy --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Human settlements --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Applied ecology --- Landscape design

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Ecological landscape design. --- Landscape assessment. --- Landscape ecology. --- Ecology --- Assessment, Landscape --- Environmental perception --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Ecologically sound landscape design --- Environmentally sound landscape design --- Applied ecology --- Landscape design

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Rare animals -- Monitoring. --- Rare plants -- Monitoring. --- Landscape ecology --- Land use --- Ecological landscape design --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Ecologically sound landscape design --- Environmentally sound landscape design --- Applied ecology --- Landscape design --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Environmental aspects --- Planning --- Rare animals --- Rare plants --- Monitoring --- Rare animals - Monitoring --- Rare plants - Monitoring

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"This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cites. Numerous cities around the world are located alongside bodies of water in the form of coastlines, lakes, rivers and canals, but the relationship between city inhabitants and these water sources has often been ambivalent. In many cities, water has been polluted, engineered or ignored completely. But, due to an increasing awareness of the strong connections between city, people, nature and water, and health, this paradigm is shifting. The international editorial team, consisting of researchers and professionals across several disciplines, leads the reader through theoretical aspects, evidence, illustrated case studies, risk assessment and a series of validated tools to aid planning and design, before finishing with overarching planning and design principles for a range of blue-space types. Over 200 full colour illustrations accompany the case study examples from geographic locations all over Europe including Portugal, UK, Norway, and Estonia. With green and blue infrastructure now at the forefront of current policies and trends to promote healthy, sustainable cities, Urban Blue Spaces is a must-have for professionals and students in landscape planning, urban design and environmental design"-- Provided by publisher.

Land use --- Sustainable development --- Ecological landscape design --- Planning --- Ecologically sound landscape design --- Environmentally sound landscape design --- Applied ecology --- Landscape design --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Environmental aspects