Mary Roderick

Stop Landscape Lobotomy

Ecological Restoration and Urban Planning: Integrating to end distURBANce

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ecological restoration is a growing field of study designed to holistically assess damage to ecological integrity, as well as identify scientific, social, economic, and political strategies to remediate these negative impacts, and reconcile human and broader ecosystem needs. While significant advancement has been made on the scientific end, other aspects are lagging. Ecological restoration is promising in its intrinsically inclusive and multi-dimensional approach to improving environmental quality and providing tangible socio-economic value through healthy ecosystem services, however for it to truly be effective it must be integrated into governmental decision-making and action. The goal of this book is to inform planners and policy-makers about the relationship of ecosystem health to human prosperity to drive restoration priorities, about the unavoidable task of ecological restoration, and about how existing planning tools can be used to achieve positive results.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9783838369976
• ISBN-10: 3838369971
• Artikelnr.: 30202635

Autorenporträt

Mary Roderick is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD in Urban Planning and Design at the University of Washington in Seattle. After careers in literacy education and non-profit management, followed by IT development and consulting in Germany, she returned to the US to advocate socially-oriented and ecologically sensitive planning.