Facilitating Watershed Management

Fostering Awareness and Stewardship
Herausgeber: France, Robert L.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and practitioners from being knowledgeable stewards of watersheds to becoming wise managers of watersheds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9780742533646
• ISBN-10: 0742533646
• Artikelnr.: 21776916

Autorenporträt

Robert L. France, associate professor of landscape ecology at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design/Landscape Architecture, is one of the world's leading authorities on watershed management.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I: Environmental Communication Chapter 2 Overview: The
Sociology of Watershed Stewardship and Management Chapter 3 1 Buzzwords and
Benchmarks: Ecosystem Health as a Management Goal Chapter 4 Response:
Integrating Human and Environmental Aspirations Chapter 5 2 Into the Great
Wide Open: Rethinking Design in an Era of Economic, Social, and
Environmental Change Chapter 6 Response: Watershed Health as Wealth and
Other "Capital" Ideas Chapter 7 3 Innovation Diffusion and Water-Sensitive
Design Chapter 8 Response: Making Sure Paradigm Shift Happens Chapter 9 4
Agency-Sponsored Alternative Dispute Resolution Process in Urban River
Management Chapter 10 Response: Managing Watersheds by Managing People
Chapter 11 5 Watershed Management-The Never-Ending Story Chapter 12
Response: The Art of Watershed Gardening Chapter 13 6 WatershedAtlas.com:
Educating the Public Chapter 14 Response: Virtual, Spatial, and Temporal
Tours Chapter 15 7 Watermarks: Imprinting Water(shed) Awareness through
Environmental Literature and Art Chapter 16 Response: Engaging the Aquatic
Muse Part 17 Part II: Education Outreach Chapter 18 Overview: The Pedagogy
of Watershed Stewardship and Management Chapter 19 8 Watershed Management
Education and Training CD-ROMs Chapter 20 Response: Electronically
Expanding Watersheds through Distance Learning Chapter 21 9 A New Role for
University Extension in Water Resources Management Chapter 22 Response:
Participatory Education Chapter 23 10 Saving Species by Saving Watersheds:
Poster Development and Community Participation Chapter 24 Response:
Information Transfer and Local Empowerment Chapter 25 11 Exploring Water:
Art and Physics in Teaching and Learning with Water Chapter 26 Response:
Intimate Liquid Encounters-Teaching the Teachers Chapter 27 12 Taking It to
the Streets: Mystic Watershed Awareness Efforts Merge with Public Art
Chapter 28 Response: Ripple Effects-Making Water Visible by Making Waves
Chapter 29 13 Developing a Public Education Toolbox for a Contested Wetland
in Los Angeles Chapter 30 Response: Multiple Educational Challenges for
Nonprofit Stewardship Groups Chapter 31 14 Applying the Theory:
Design/Build Models for Water Harvesting and Watershed Awareness Chapter 32
Response: Teaching and Learning by Doing Part 33 Part III: Demonstration
Projects Chapter 34 Overview: The Phenomenology of Watershed Stewardship
and Management Chapter 35 15 The Touch of Water: Artists Working with Water
and Communities Chapter 36 Response: Establishing Environmental Awareness
through Water Artistry Chapter 37 16 Elevating Wetland Consciousness:
Environmental Education and Art Chapter 38 Response: Curing Cancer by
Applying Bandages of Functional Art Chapter 39 17 Combining Art and
Science: The Living Water Garden in Chengdu, China Chapter 40 Response:
Role of High-Visibility Demonstration Projects Chapter 41 18 Riparian
Pocket Parks as a Means for Physically and Conceptually Connecting People
to Urban Waters Chapter 42 Response: Recognition on the Way to Restoration
Chapter 43 19 Stormwater Management: A Primer and Guidelines fro Future
Programming and Innovative Demonstration Projects Chapter 44 Response:
Developing Cost-Effective and Integrative Water Management Chapter 45 20
Watershed Management as Urban Design: The Civic Hydrology of Bellevue,
Washington Chapter 46 Response: Lives Linked by Liquid Chapter 47 21
Message in the Medium: Watershed Awareness through Design of a Watershed
Education Center Chapter 48 Response: Practicing What Is Preached