Landscape and sustainability

Benson, J. F. & M.H. Roe, 2000, Landscape and sustainability, Taylor & Francis Group, London

  • Author : Benson, J. F. & M.H. Roe
  • Year : 2000
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
  • Publisher's Location : London
  • ISBN : 0419250808
  • Pages : 318
  • Abstract : This work addresses the issues raised by sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture. The book comprehensively brings together the two topics through a disciplinary focus on landscape in architecture (planning, design, science, management) and sustainability. The scale and scope of landscape and sustainability, John F. Benson and Maggie H. Roe; the ethics of sustainability, Ian H. Thompson; the landscape of sustainable economics, Colin Price; the social dimensions of landscape sustainability, Maggie H. Roe; international policies and landscape protection, Adrian Phillips; landscape sustainability at the national and regional scales, Paul Selman; regional landscape strategies, Sue Kidd; managing whole landscapes in the post-productive rural environment, Robert MacFarlane; landscape, planning and city form, Helen Armstrong, Helen Brown and Tom Turner; resources - the raw materials of landscape, Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden; the practice of sustainable landscape design, Michael Herrmann, Chris Royffe and Andy Miljard; community landscape architecture, Maggie H. Roe and Maisie Rowe; sustainable landscape management, A.D. Kendle, J.E. Rose and J. Oikawa; visions of sustainability, Kristina Hill.
  • Comments : KEYWORDS: landscape architecture, sustainability, landscape ecology, landscape design.