Sustainable Landscaping: Principles and Practices

✍ Scribed by Marietta Loehrlein

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 320
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

While landscaping has the potential to be part of the solution to certain environmental problems, the quest for beauty can also produce effects that are harmful to the environment. Sustainable Landscaping: Principles and Practices examines landscape practices that adversely affect the environment, which occur in the process of constructing, impleme

✦ Table of Contents

Sustainable Landscaping. Sustainability in the Plantscape. The Sun and the Sustainable Landscape. The Wind and Energy Conservation. Water Issues. Water Conservation. Managing Excess Water in the Landscape. Soil Health. Sustainable Fertilization. Improving Landscape Soils with Organic Matter. Pesticides in the Landscape. Integrated Pest Management. Energy: Sources and Uses. Tools and Equipment. Sustainable Landscape Materials and Products. Appendices. Index.

✦ Subjects

Environment & Agriculture;Agriculture & Environmental Sciences;Agriculture;Crop Science;Botany;Built Environment;Landscape;Landscape Conservation, Maintenance and Management

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