Introduction to Watershed Development Understanding and Managing the Impacts of Sprawl

by France, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780742542082
• ISBN10: 0742542084
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

"Sprawl"-the spread of development from urban centers into the countryside-is recognized as one of the most serious threats to watershed functionality and health. 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 the viewpoint of understanding the responses of watersheds to sprawl, this book addresses issues such as: how water bodies are linked to the land, what the horizon issues and problems are in watershed management, which surveying approaches can be used to monitor the damage to watersheds, and how new, water-sensitive developments can be planned.

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
1 Seeking the Connection: Land-Water Ecotonal Coupling	3	(10)
2 Setting the Agenda: Issues and Challenges in Integrated Watershed Education and Management for the Public Palate	13	(16)
3 Surveying the Effects: Developing Biomonitoring Indices to Facilitate Communication among Watershed Stakeholders	29	(14)
PART II. PROBLEM MINIMIZATION
4 Exploring Choice: Managing the Ecological Integrity of Escaped Tigers—An Option Strategy Protocol for Water-Sensitive Environmental Management	43	(16)
5 Establishing "Enough": Empirically Determining the Limits to Growth in Watershed Development Planning	59	(10)
6 Examining Sites: Assessing Site-Development Potential in Terms of Water Vulnerability and Other Environmental Impacts	69	(22)
7 Engaging Time: Frameworks for Modeling Scenarios of Alternative Development Futures	91	(16)
PART III. PROBLEM MITIGATION
8 Framing Sites: Jonathan Swift's Bane—Communicating and Implementing Strategies for Protecting Water Quality from Stormwater Runoff	107	(14)
9 Functioning Art: Ripple Effects—Creating Treatment Wetland Parks	121	(14)
10 Fixing Home(scapes): Communicating the Benefits of Retrofitting Residences and Neighborhoods for Waterfront Buffer Gardens and Greenways	135	(18)
PART IV. PROBLEM MANAGEMENT
11 Annotation: Executive Summary of Watershed Development Perspectives	153	(6)
12 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