Landscape And Sustainability

The new edition ofLandscape and Sustainabilitybrings up-to-date the issues of landscape, sustainability and the practice of planning, designing and managing landscapes at a variety of scales and in a number of locations; urban, suburban and rural. Despite the ubiquity of sustainability as a concept, this is the most comprehensive and inclusive book available about how landscape architecture and sustainability intersect.Landscape and Sustainabilityis underpinned by the importance of landscape ecology, rather than the promotion of landscape as having simply aesthetic appeal. As this book argues, landscape is, and must be, much more than this; landscape architecture is about making places which are biologically wholesome, socially just and spiritually rewarding. Landscape needs a new mindset among professionals in which sustainability and ecology become the foundation for practice. The book offers a logical progression from theory to practice, from the global to the local scale, and from issues of policy and planning through to detailed design and implementation. The contributors raise a complex array of research, policy and professional issues to contribute to the necessary ongoing debate about the future of both landscape and sustainability.With updated contributions focusing closely on national and regional planning and multifunctional landscapes as well as new chapters on landscapes in the city and the practice of Landscape Architecture, this new edition serves to broaden both the practical and theoretical debate on landscape sustainability at every level.Benson, John F. is the author of 'Landscape And Sustainability ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415404433 and ISBN 0415404436.