Green Infrastructure: Current Debates for Policy, Practice and Implementation

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Synopsis
Our understandings of the landscapes around us are constantly changing. How we interact with, manage and value these spaces is important, as it helps us to ensure we live in attractive, functional and sustainable places. Green Infrastructure planning is the current ‘go-to’ approach in landscape planning that incorporates human-environmental interactions, understandings of ecology and how socio-cultural factors influence our use of parks, gardens and waterways. This book explores several interpretations of Green Infrastructure bringing together case studies of policy, practice, ecological change and community understandings of landscape. Focusing on how planning policy shapes our interactions with the landscape, as individuals and communities, the book discusses what works and what needs to be improved. It examines how environmental management can promote more sustainable approaches to landscape protection ensuring that water resources and ecological communities are not harmed by development. It also asks what the economic and community values of Green Infrastructure are to illustrate how different social, ecological and political factors influence how our landscapes are managed. The central message of the book focusses on the promotion of multi-functional nature within urban landscapes that helps people, the economy and the environment to meet the challenges of population, infrastructure and economic change. The chapters in this book were origianally published as a special issue in Landscape Research.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
112 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351359276
Related ISBNs:
9780203711002, 9780367892227, 9781351359283, 9781351359269, 9781138561199
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Landscape Research Society
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Business and Finance
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Ian C. Mell

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