Gary Austin, Kongjian Yu

Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how with careful planning and design, the functions and performance of constructed wetlands can provide a huge range of benefits to humans and the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 301
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317438939
• Artikelnr.: 45698876

Autorenporträt

Gary Austin is the author of Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning (Routledge 2014). He is a landscape architect who studied under John Lyle and taught at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA. He has practised in the public and private sectors and has taught landscape architecture at the University of Washington, USA, and the University of Idaho, USA. His teaching and research focus on community revitalization, urban biological diversity and treatment of wastewater and stormwater for water quality improvement.

Kongjian Yu is co-author of the influential book The Art of Survival (2007). He is Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, USA, and the principal of Turenscape, a large landscape architecture firm in China. The many constructed and monitored wetland projects that his firm has designed appear in this book. He is also Professor and Dean at Beijing University, China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Water and Sustainable Urban Design
2. Wastewater Characteristics
3. Free Water Surface Constructed Wetlands
4. Horizontal Subsurface Flow Treatment Wetlands
5. Vertical Subsurface Flow Treatment Wetlands
6. Hybrid Constructed Wetlands
7. Plants in Constructed Wetlands
8. Riparian Wetlands
9. Stormwater Management and Sustainable Development
10. Increasing the Sustainability of Agriculture
11. Treatment of Industrial Effluent in Constructed Wetlands
Appendix