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9781559635585

Green Infrastructure

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  • ISBN13:

    9781559635585

  • ISBN10:

    1559635584

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-03-18
  • Publisher: Island Pr

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Summary

With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructureadvances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multi-state region, Green Infrastructurehelps each of us look at the landscape in relation to the many uses it could serve, for nature and people, and determine which use makes the most sense. In this wide-ranging primer, leading experts in the field provide a detailed how-to for planners, designers, landscape architects, and citizen activists

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Charles Jordan
Lawrence Selzer
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Why Green Infrastructure?
1(22)
The Green Infrastructure Approach: Principles from Past to Present
23(34)
The Benefits of a Green Infrastructure Approach
57(28)
Where Do We Begin?
85(24)
The Basics of Network Design
109(40)
The Implementation Quilt: Matching Available Resources to Network Needs
149(48)
Management and Stewardship
197(28)
Building Support for Green Infrastructure
225(26)
Making It Happen
251(28)
Glossary 279(8)
Selected Bibliography 287(2)
Index 289

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