Basic And Clinical Environmental Approaches In Landscape Planning

Author : Hiroyuki Shimizu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431544151
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic and Clinical Environmental Approaches in Landscape Planning written by Hiroyuki Shimizu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscape planning and design is at the core the holistic concept and it makes several contributions to achieving sustainability. First, landscape planning and design connects different spatial scales: from site to region to the planet. Second, it focuses on close interrelationships between human activities and nature. Third, it is concerned with people’s values toward their surroundings. This book is based on the presentations made by German and Japanese scholars at the international symposium “New Trends of Landscape Design: Seamless Connection of Landscape Planning and Design from Regional to Site Scales — The Cultural Context” held on November 5, 2012, at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University.

Author : William M. Marsh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Planning written by William M. Marsh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reprint, originally published in 1983, draws attention to the important lines of thought that have emerged during the past several decades to offer a portrait of contemporary physical geography which have been drawn together in this text. It introduces conventional terms and topics of the subject and weaves them into a conceptual fabric that rests on three major themes, including the energy-balance concept; a model for understanding the forces and processes in the landscape; the stress-threshold concept; the relationship between the stress produced by forces such as wind and water and the resistance of the earth's materials; and the magnitude and frequency of change in the landscape. Chapter summaries are featured along with numerous illustrations.

Author : Hiroyuki Shimizu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981102278X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor Forces and Landscape Management written by Hiroyuki Shimizu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present a new proposal for landscape management labor accounts. Many matured countries are now confronting an aging society and a shrinking population. Land degradation in those countries is basically caused by a lack of local labor forces. It is very important, therefore, to consider and develop methods to provide appropriate labor forces for the sustainable management of landscapes or to reduce or shrink landscape management areas sustainably with available labor forces. Landscape management labor accounts provide a foundation for such development.This book consists of four main parts. The first part is concerned with forming concepts, definitions, and overviews. Change in land management policies, research topics, and issues on landscape management are dealt with in the second part. The third part consists of case studies on landscape management labor accounts. Major landscape types chosen for case studies include urban areas, flatland farmlands, Satoyama, and coastal neighborhoods. In the last part of this section, integration methods to develop landscape management labor accounts on different scales are considered. The fourth part of the book is a detailed exposition of contemporary trials to solve issues of land management for the future in the field of urban, rural, forest, river, and coastal planning. Also discussed is the connection of ecosystem service studies and perspectives on the development of landscape management labor accounts with world landscape management research.

Author : Richard Coles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134684274
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape, Well-Being and Environment written by Richard Coles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-being is now firmly established as an overarching theme of key concern to all professionals that work, manage or design the environment. However, well-being is a complex multi-dimensional issue rooted in the ways that we encounter, perceive and interpret the environment. No single discipline can claim to have sufficient knowledge to fully explain the types of interactions that occur, therefore there is a need to draw together a wide range of professions who are exploring the consequences of their actions upon the well-being of individuals and communities. This edited work addresses the above, consisting of a collection of studies which embrace different aspects of environment, landscape and well-being to consider current approaches to well-being research and practice that fall outside the traditional concepts of well-being as part of medical research, making links with architecture, landscape design, environmental perception, social interaction and environmental sustainability. The contributors originally presented at the international conference, ‘Well-Being 2011’ jointly hosted by Birmingham City University and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA); the chapters have been developed to present a coherent series of themes reviewing a wide range of literature, presenting case studies appropriate to diverse audiences.

Author : Mika Shimizu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811943451
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Resilience Approach to Acceleration of Sustainable Development Goals written by Mika Shimizu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to articulate how to address interlinkages among sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are keys to implementing those goals by 2030. At the heart of the book is a resilience approach to the enabling relevant systems, practices, and education and research. While SDGs are well known at different levels from local to global spheres, a major gap can be seen between goals and approaches, as approaches are lacking for addressing interlinkages among SDGs. The United Nations General Assembly in 2015 acknowledged interlinkages as being of crucial importance in ensuring the purpose of the goals. However, few actual approaches have been specified to address the interlinkages or interconnections at both the policy and practical levels. Thus, it is urgent to face the question of how to address the interlinkages by stakeholders—not only policy communities and researchers but also practitioners and students, especially innovators who can go beyond existing boundaries. By highlighting that challenge, this book lays out a path for addressing interlinkages among SDGs by applying a resilience approach to the issues of a sustainable society. The resilience approach has been developed from combinations of different modes of thinking and practices, including the systems approach, systems and design thinking, and resilience thinking and practices. Based on this overarching approach, innovators seek out the relevance of that approach to their SDGs-related practices at the system, local, and educational levels. The book therefore serves as a guide to how the resilience approach can contribute to accelerating implementation of SDGs by 2030.

Author : Diedrich Bruns
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658042842
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes written by Diedrich Bruns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book an international group of authors reflects mechanisms of the cultural and social construction of landscapes. International migration and global exchange are associated with a multitude of different cultural meanings of landscapes. The logics of multi-cultural perceptions and meanings of landscape call for trans-disciplinary research, and for guidance on addressing culturally sensitive issues and inclusion in practical planning.

Author : Enrico Gottero
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319955764
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrourbanism written by Enrico Gottero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a much needed overview of the agrourbanism topic in the context of territorial studies. It carefully looks at rural, urban, periurban farming in both professional and unprofessional capacities as one of the main sustainable forms of land use and management. This cutting edge text explores the various forms of agricultural and urban planning, as well as the main innovations that the agro-urban approach entails in terms of governance, spatial dimensions and functions. Agrourbanism provides a breadth of information and serves as a practical study of concerns facing policy and decision makers, planners and landscape managers, as well as farmers, managers of protected areas, local authorities and local action groups. As such this book is suitable as a course accompaniment to provide an overview of the complexity of agro-urban issues.

Author : Jala Makhzoumi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135809216
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Landscape Design and Planning written by Jala Makhzoumi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on both research and practical experience,Ecological Landscape Design and Planning offers a holistic methodological approach to landscape design and planning. It focuses on the scarcity of natural resources in the Mediterranean and the need to aim for long-term ecological stability and environmental sustainability. The principles of this approach, therefore, can be used as a theoretical foundation for holistic landscape research, creative ecological design and better sustainable practice development.

Author : John Ormsbee Simonds
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071491260
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Architecture, Fourth Edition written by John Ormsbee Simonds and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-07-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States audience for this book includes landscape architects (23,000), architects (113,000), engineers (228,000), urban planners (32,000), landscape architecture students (7,000) 400-plus full-color photos and diagrams Topics new to this edition include climate, new weather patterns, water resource management, new urbanism and growth management and parking and mass transit

Author : Fabio Duarte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131708568X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space, Place and Territory written by Fabio Duarte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, place and territory are indeed polysemic and polemic, they have particular characteristics that distinguish them from each other. They are interdependent but not interchangeable, and the differences between them explain how we simultaneously perceive, conceive and design multiple spatialities. After drawing the conceptual framework of space, place and territory, the book initially explores how we sense space in the most visceral ways, and how the overlay of meanings attached to the sensorial characteristics of space change the way we perceive it – smell, spatial experiences using electroence phalography, and the changing meaning of darkness are discussed. The book continues exploring cartographic mapping not as a final outcome, but rather as an epistemological tool, an instrument of inquiry. It follows on how particular ideas of space, place and territory are embedded in specific urban proposals, from Brasília to the Berlin Wall, airports and infiltration of digital technologies in our daily life. The book concludes by focusing on spatial practices that challenge the status quo of how we perceive and understand urban spaces, from famous artists to anonymous interventions by traceurs and hackers of urban technologies. Combining space, place and territory as distinctive but interdependent concepts into an epistemological matrix may help us to understand contemporary phenomena and live them critically.