Landscaping Books
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Ecological Restoration
Published quarterly by the University of Wisconsin Press, Ecological Restoration features articles on a broad range of topics related to the technical, biological, and social aspects of restoring landscapes, and explores issues such as the role of education, land-use policy, the science of collaboration, and evolving theories of post-modern humans and their environment. The journal offers ...
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Water Resources Allocation: Sharing Risks and Opportunities
Water resources allocation determines who is able to use water resources, how, when and where. It directly affects the value (economic, ecological, socio-cultural) that individuals and society obtain from water resources. This report overviews how allocation works in a range of countries and how the performance of allocation arrangements can be improved to adjust to changing conditions. Capturing ...
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Industrial Water Technology Markets 2015: Meeting industrial needs in process water treatment and wastewater reuse
Discover how your business can benefit from the rapid growth of the industrial water sector and where you can pitch your technology in the market. Industrial water is the fastest growing sector of the global water market but with each industry facing substantial challenges in their business, including tighter water quality standards, new wastewater discharge regulations and issues surrounding ...
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Water and Wastewater Finance and Pricing: The Changing Landscape
This new edition of Water and Wastewater Finance and Pricing: The Changing Landscape analyses the process for developing an effective financial plan, focusing on components such as public and private sector financing, credit facilities, system development charges, interest rates, cost of debt issuance, and market conditions. Fully revised throughout, with new coverage of water reuse pricing, ...
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Water Communication
Water Communication aims at setting a first general outlook at what communication on water means, who communicates and on what topics. Through different examples and based on different research and contributions, this book presents an original first overview of “water communication”. It sets its academic value as one distinct scientific domain and provides tips and practical tools to ...
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Public Private Partnerships in the Water Sector
Public sector funding and resources are often inadequate to meet increasing demands for investment and effective management, and a growing case history shows increasing involvement by the private sector in provision of infrastructure and services through PPP arrangements. The objective of this book is to determine, and make recommendations on, means of optimizing the use of Public Private ...
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Milestones in Water Reuse
Milestones in Water Reuse: The Best Success Stories illustrates the benefits of water reuse in integrated water resources management and its role for water cycle management, climate change adaptation and water in the cities of the future. Selected case studies are used to illustrate the different types of water reuse, i.e. agricultural irrigation, golf course and landscape irrigation, urban and ...
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Making Space for the River
This book examines recent developments in river (flood) management from the viewpoint of Making Space for the River and the resulting challenges for water governance. Different examples from Europe and the United States of America are discussed that aim to ‘green’ rivers, including increasing river discharge for flood management, enhancing natural and landscape values, promoting local or regional ...
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World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Our challenge is to think globally and develop policies to counteract environmental decline and economic collapse. The question is: Can we change direction before we go over the edge? Lester Brown looks at our economic future through an environmental lens to develop a plan that will sustain civilization. He ...
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Geostatistics: Spatial Information Modeling and Mapping for Natural Resources, Ecological and Environmental Applicationss
Geospatial information modeling and mapping has become an important tool for the investigation and management of natural resources at the landscape scale. Geostatistics reviews the types and applications of geospatial information data, such as remote sensing, GIS and GPS, as well as their integration into landscape scale geospatial statistical models and maps. Readers will learn the requirements ...
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The Sustainable Site: The Design Manual for Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Devleopment
The concepts in this book are so critical to a project’s success and reducing the long-term costs of our infrastructure, you’ll wonder why it wasn’t written sooner. The Sustainable Site is an essential tool for all project engineers, designers, regulators and planners, managers, contractors, engineers, consultants, policymakers, builders, landscape designers, irrigation professionals, ...
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Fate of Estrogenic Compounds during Municipal Sludge Stabilization and Dewatering
This project convened a team of experts in the fields of environmental engineering (AECOM), analytical chemistry and hydrogeology (USGS), and biological assay analysis (UA) to evaluate the occurrence and fate of estrogenic compound, and the estrogenicity of biosolids derived from wastewater treatment. Sludge and biosolids samples were collected through the solids treatment train of four ...
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Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities
New model for water management is emerging worldwide in response to water shortages, polluted waterways, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Cities and towns are questioning the ecological and financial sustainability of big-pipe water, stormwater, and sewer systems and are searching for “lighter footprint” more sustainable solutions. Pilot projects are being built that use, treat, store, ...
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ASTM International Standards on Sustainability in Building: 4th Edition
151 ASTM specifications, test methods, and practices address sustainability or aspects of sustainability relative to building, including sustainable design, construction, and operation of buildings. This edition includes all of the ASTM standards referenced by the: • Federal Green Construction Guide for Specifiers as of January 2010 • International Green Construction ...
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Rainwater Harvesting : a Lifeline for Human well-being
This publication highlights the link between rain-water harvesting, ecosystems and human well being and draws the attention of readers to both the negative and positive aspects of using this technology and how the negative benefits can be minimized and positive capitalized. In this report, the concept of rainwater harvesting is examined for its potential to increase human well-being without ...
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Forest fires and the law. A guide for national drafters based on the Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines.
Forest fires impact upon livelihoods, ecosystems and landscapes. The Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines address the cultural, social, environmental and economic dimensions of fire management at all levels. The present study identifies the elements of a coherent national legal framework on forest fires, identifying emerging trends and singling out best practices and innovative legal ...
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The Salt Marshes of Cornwall (the environment of the Camel, Fal, Gannel and Hayle)
Cornwall is a land defined by it's coastline and the mining industry that supported it's people for so long. As such, the estuaries of Cornwall have become highly contaminated, resulting in an ecology specialised to metal enriched environments. In this edition, we look at the environment of the Camel, Fal, Gannel and Hayle estuaries, focussing on the Amble Marshes (Camel), Newquay (Gannel), ...
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Compilation of Agrinews videos (2005-2007) / Compilation des videos Agriflash (2005-2007)
This compilation contains the following Agrinews videos: 1) Cashew nut, artemisia, compost; 2) Wheat rust, purifying water, keep chicken health; 3) Wamis-net, botanic clinics, striga; 4)Banana, anthurium, practical guide: duck raising; 5) Gluten free, bamboo, goat rearing; 6) Mango kernel, aguide for exporters, the bird flu; 7) Banana leaves, fruit fly, fish preservation; 8) Organic pineapple, ...
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Turfgrass and Landscape Irrigation Water Quality: Assessment and Management
With the increased use of alternative irrigation water sources on turfgrass and landscape sites, their management is becoming more complex and whole ecosystems-oriented. Yet few turfgrass managers have received formal training in the intricacies of irrigation water. Turfgrass and Landscape Irrigation Water Quality: Assessment and Management provides a comprehensive, science-based review of ...
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Turfgrass and Landscape Irrigation Water Quality: Assessment and Management
With the increased use of alternative irrigation water sources on turfgrass and landscape sites, their management is becoming more complex and systems-oriented. This book provides a comprehensive, science-based understanding of irrigation water quality. The text confronts each challenge associated with various water sources over the whole spectrum, from initial source to delivery system. Various ...
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