Landscape & Environment, Environmental Science - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Environmental Policies, Geography - General & Miscellaneous, Architecture - Landscape, Landscape Architecture
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Overview
An overview of environmental topics as applied to problems of development, land use, and various environmental problems of the landscape. This book addresses several key topics of concern--flooding wetlands, species conservation, groundwater--in both public and private sectors and provides easy access to the concepts, problems, and analytic techniques of the field.Editorials
Booknews
Suggests to students of physical geography, planning, and landscape architecture how the three disciplines relate to environmental problems and issues. The second edition (first in 1983) takes account of the growing permeability between fields, shifts of attention to new applications, and comments by students and instructors on the first edition. Accessible to nonspecialists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)From the Publisher
"Marsh (U. of British Columbia and emeritus U. of Michigan) presents the 25th anniversary edition of his textbook and guide explaining how to deal reasonably with the land in the face of expanding land use and changing technology. Most readers will be in the early stages of their career, he suggests, and he hopes to establish some basic principles they can adapt and apply for a long time." (Book News Inc, November 2010)Book Details
Published
February 4, 1983
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pages
356
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780471854340