Introduction to Watershed Development Understanding and Managing the Impacts of Sprawl

by France, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780742542099
• ISBN10: 0742542092
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Introduction to Watershed Development: Understanding and Managing the Impacts of Sprawl presents a logical framework to measure, minimize, and manage the problem of development from a viewpoint of understanding the responses of watersheds and their inhabitants to this stress. This book is the author's distinctive and extremely well-informed perspective, culled from his many years of scientific research, environmental scholarship, professional consulting, and academic teaching.

Author Biography

Robert L. France, associate professor of landscape ecology at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART I. PROBLEM MEASUREMENT
Seeking the Connection: Land-Water Ecotonal Coupling	3	(10)
Setting the Agenda: Issues and Challenges in Integrated Watershed Education and Management for the Public Palate	13	(16)
Surveying the Effects: Developing Biomonitoring Indices to Facilitate Communication among Watershed Stakeholders	29	(14)
PART II. PROBLEM MINIMIZATION
Exploring Choice: Managing the Ecological Integrity of Escaped Tigers---An Option Strategy Protocol for Water-Sensitive Environmental Management	43	(16)
Establishing ``Enough'': Empirically Determining the Limits to Growth in Watershed Development Planning	59	(10)
Examining Sites: Assessing Site-Development Potential in Terms of Water Vulnerability and Other Environmental Impacts	69	(22)
Engaging Time: Frameworks for Modeling Scenarios of Alternative Development Futures	91	(16)
PART III. PROBLEM MITIGATION
Framing Sites: Jonathan Swift's Bane---Communicating and Implementing Strategies for Protecting Water Quality from Stormwater Runoff	107	(14)
Functioning Art: Ripple Effects---Creating Treatment Wetland Parks	121	(14)
Fixing Home(scapes): Communicating the Benefits of Retrofitting Residences and Neighborhoods for Waterfront Buffer Gardens and Greenways	135	(18)
PART IV. PROBLEM MANAGEMENT
Annotation: Executive Summary of Watershed Development Perspectives	153	(6)
Application: Master Planning for Protecting and Restoring an Urban Wild and River	159	(36)
Literature Cited	195	(18)
About the Author	213	(2)
Index	215