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Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands.
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ISBN: 9781613769089 Year: 2022 Publisher: Québec : University of Massachusetts Press,

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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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Water centric sustainable communities : planning, retrofitting, and building the next urban environment.
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ISBN: 9780470476086 0470476087 9780470642825 0470642823 9780470642832 0470642831 9780470642849 047064284X 9780470949962 0470949961 9780470951699 0470951699 9780470951934 0470951931 Year: 2010 Publisher: Hoboken Wiley

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This book departs from the traditional "clean water in, dirty water out" approach to establish a holistic paradigm for integrated water conservation and use in cities by embracing the three r's: reduce, reuse, recycle. This book provides the forum for lively discussion on the social concerns, technological challenges, planning issues, and economic woes putting up barriers to the reality of achieving a sustainable urban environment - and presents expert suggestions for overcoming them. This book combines landscape, water management, transportation, infrastructure, and triple bottom line assessment into one integrated system.

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Municipal water supply. --- Water resources development. --- Sustainable development. --- Urban runoff --- Watershed management. --- Eau --- Ressources en eau --- Développement durable --- Ecoulement urbain --- Bassins hydrographiques --- Management. --- Approvisionnement urbain --- Exploitation --- Gestion --- 628.1 --- 628.2 --- 556.16 --- 556.3 --- 711.8 --- 711.4 --- Watershed development --- Watersheds --- Ecosystem management --- Stormwater management, Urban --- Rain gardens --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Cities and towns --- Urban water --- Water, Municipal --- Water, Urban --- Municipal engineering --- Water supply, treatment, consumption and use --- Urban water removal. Town drainage, sewerage --- Runoff --- Groundwater hydrology. Geohydrology. Hydrogeology --- Planologie: openbare nutsvoorzieningen --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Management --- Environmental aspects --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- 711.8 Planologie: openbare nutsvoorzieningen --- 556.3 Groundwater hydrology. Geohydrology. Hydrogeology --- 556.16 Runoff --- 628.2 Urban water removal. Town drainage, sewerage --- 628.1 Water supply, treatment, consumption and use --- Développement durable --- Municipal water supply --- Water resources development --- Watershed management --- Urban runoff - Management.

Greenways : the beginning of an international movement
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ISBN: 0444824642 Year: 1995 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier,

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Ecopolis : Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate

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