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Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications, 3rd Edition |  | Author: William M. Marsh
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 489090
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 448
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471242071
Dewey Decimal Number: 712
EAN: 9780471242079
ASIN: 0471242071
Publication Date: December 15, 1997
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Product Description
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.
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 Where Physical Geography & Env. Planning share common ground December 16, 2004
James Safranek (Steinbeck Country)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This may be one of the best introductions to environmental planning for geography students interested in the application of physical geographic techniques. When inquiring minds ask how a Geography major like myself ended up doing septic plan review as a county Environmental Health Specialist I simply point to Marsh's chapter on waste disposal and describe the necessary physical parameters familiar to physical geographers (soil types and percolation rates, groundwater levels, slopes and topography, surface water, geohazards, mapping, etc). There is something for everybody in this book and you don't have to be a geography major to benefit. A very practical text.
excellent book! May 8, 2009
S. Buchner (Asheville, NC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'd recommend this book especially to any Earth/Environmental Science Majors. I actually just read this entire book cramming for an Environmental Planning exam (I was originally just going to skim some chapters). I wish I'd been reading it all along! There's a lot of cross-over with a Geology class I'm taking too.
Chapter 3 is one of the best explanations of the form/function(process) relationship in terms of the environment that I've ever read. I also found Chapter 9 very insightful concerning drainage basins. The diagrams and pictures are incredible. There is just enough technical scientific detail in the book to get a really good understanding of processes without overloading you with too many complicated equations.
Wetlands overview March 29, 2007
Lisa Ballew (Plano, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Clearly explained wetland designations and issues. Good in preparation for the LARE exams part B.
 Great book December 26, 1999
davidpio@students.uiuc.edu
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book was a great tool for the beginning landscape architect. Many great tools for land planning including equations and tables and charts to determine various things like water runoff, erosion, sun exposure, and much more.
Environmental Planning November 26, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a student in environmental planning and have found this book to be extremely useful. It address a variey of things such as watershed, storm discharge, streamflow, etc. It really gives the reader an idea of how to design with nature.
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