Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

by France; Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9781566705622
• ISBN10: 1566705622
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-29
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

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 Designpresents 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.

Table of Contents

Series statement
Foreword
Preface
Background - Perspectives of water management: Representative examples from the recent literature	1	(8)
Robert France
PART I WATER SENSITIVE DESIGN
Robert France
Overview: New interpretations in stormwater management and wetland park creation	9	(346)
Stormwater management and stormwater restoration	11	(20)
Bruce K. Ferguson
Response---Stormwater infiltration: Curing the disease rather than treating the symptoms
Successful stormwater management ponds (Massachusetts)	31	(18)
Desheng Wang
Response---Centralized stormwater treatment: Improving performance through engineering design
Open spaces and impervious surfaces: Model development principles and benefits	49	(18)
Jennifer A. Zielinski
Response---Using computer scenarios to improve site design
Post-industrial watersheds: Retrofits and restorative redevelopment (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)	67	(30)
Richard D. Pinkham
Timothy Collins
Response---Raising consciousness through interdisciplinary design workshops
Low-impact development An alterative stormwater management technology	97	(28)
Larry S. Coffman
Response---Thinking big, acting small: Multi-tasking and the benefits of dispersed micromanagement
Water gardens as stormwater infrastructure (Portland, Oregon)	125	(30)
Thomas Liptan
Robert K. Murase
Response---Letting it soak in
Retaining water: Technical support for capturing parking lot runoff (Ithaca, New York)	155	(20)
Robert France
Philip Craul
Response---To build an oxymoron: A green parking lot
A productive stormwater park (Farmington, Minnesota)	175	(18)
Diana Balmori
Response---Successfully marrying form and function in stormwater management
A stormwater wetland becomes a nature park (British Columbia, Canada)
Catherine Berris
Response---Naturalized design: Triumph of imagination and innovation	193	(12)
Wetlands-based indirect potable reuse project (West Palm Beach, Florida)	205	(10)
Larry N. Schwartz
Lee P. Wiseman
W. Erik Olson
Response---Treating wastewater with innovative technology
Restoring urban wetland---pond systems (Boston, Massachusetts)	215	(20)
Clarissa Rowe
Response---Project development through concerned citizenry
Water connections: Wetlands for science instruction (Wichita, Kansas)	235	(12)
Robert France
Kaki Martin
Response---Project development of interpretive wetlands
Constructed wetlands and stormwater management at the Northern Water Feature (Sydney Olympic Park)	247	(16)
Glenn Allen
Response---Highly visible water: Recreating a landscape for public use
Principles and applications of wetland park creation	263	(34)
James S. Bays
Response---Designing wetlands for multiple benefits
Applications of low-impact development techniques (Maryland)	297	(20)
Michael L. Clar
Response---Values of demonstration projects and case studies of stormwater source management
Restoring and protecting a small, urban lake (Boston, Massachusetts)	317	(24)
Nicholas Pouder
Robert France
Response---Buying time by bioengineering
Integrated ecology, geomorphology, and bioengineering for watershed-friendly design	341	(14)
Wendi Goldsmith
Response---Sustainability through interdisciplinarity
Discussion summary: Constraints, challenges, and opportunities in implementing innovative stormwater management techniques	355	(2)
Discussion summary: Moving from single-purpose treatment wetlands toward multifunction designed wetland parks	357	(2)
PART II WATER SENSITIVE PLANNING
Robert France
Overview: New interpretations in the management of watersheds and riparian buffers and corridors	359	(324)
Shoreline buffers: Protecting water quality and biological diversity (New Hampshire)	361	(18)
Frank Mitchell
Response---Buffer strips: More than green eyelashes?
River restoration planning (Connecticut)	379	(16)
James G. MacBroom
Response---Water quality improvements are not enough
Greenways as green infrastructure in the new millennium	395	(12)
Charles A. Flink
Response---Corridors that integrate natural, societal, and social elements
Natural resource stewardship planning and design: Fresh Pond Reservation (Massachusetts)	407	(24)
Thomas S. Benjamin
Response---Protecting and restoring treasured landscapes: Complexity and integration
Treating rivers as systems to meet multiple objectives	431	(14)
Leslie Zucker
Anne Weekes
Mark Vian
Jay D. Dorsey
Response---Beyond the banks: Holistic planning of rivers as more than the sum of their parts
What progress has been made in the Remedial Action Plan program after ten years of effort? (Ontario, Canada)	445	(14)
Gail Krantzberg
Judi Barnes
Response---Measuring recovery of impaired waters
Watershed management plans: Bridging from science to policy to operations (San Francisco, California)	459	(18)
David Blau
Response---Sociology of implementing adaptive management
Watershed assessment planning process assessment (Johnson County, Kansas)	477	(14)
Dennis A. Haag
Stephen A. Hurst
Bryan J. Bear
Response---Managing suburban watersheds for multiple objectives
Urban watershed management (Detroit, Michigan)	491	(22)
Kelly A. Cave
Response---Looking beyond the end of the pipe
Modeling a soil moisture index using geographic information systems in a developing country context (Thailand)	513	(28)
John S. Felkner
Michael W. Binford
Response---Incorporating scientific information into land-use planning
The design of regions: A watershed planning approach to sustainability	541	(16)
Daniel Williams
Response---Expanding planning vision in space and time
GIS watershed mapping: Developing and implementing a watershed natural resources inventory (New Hampshire)	557	(20)
Jeffrey A. Schloss
Response---Janus planning: Using computer tools to look backward and forward simultaneously
The effect of spatial location in land-water interactions: A comparison of two modeling approaches to support watershed planning (Newfoundland, Canada)	577	(24)
Margot Young Cantwell
Response---Linking land use to landscapes for water quality protection
Spatial investigation of applying Ontario's timber management guidelines: GIS analysis for riparian areas of concern	601	(14)
Robert France
John S. Felkner
Michael Flaxman
Robert Rempel
Response---Size matters
Aquifer recharge management model: Evaluating the impacts of urban development on groundwater resources (Galilee, Israel)	615	(20)
Amir Mueller
Robert France
Carl Steinitz
Response---Planning by examining alternatives
Factors influencing sediment transport from logging roads near boreal trout lakes (Ontario, Canada)	635	(12)
Robert France
Response---Empirically testing planing assumptions
Limnology, plumbing and planning: Evaluation of nutrient-based limits to shoreline development in Precambrian Shield watersheds	647	(36)
Neil J. Hutchinson
Response---Land-lake linkages and land-use limits
Discussion summary: Social and political issues in managing riparian buffers and corridors	683	(2)
Discussion summary: Multiple objectives in watershed management through use of GIS analysis	685	(2)
Postscript: Implementing water sensitive planning and design	687	(2)
Index	689