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Residential Landscape Sustainability A Checklist Tool

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ISBN-10: 1405158735

ISBN-13: 9781405158732

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andy Clayden, Nigel Dunnett, Carl Smith

List price: $135.00
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This guide shows environmental design professionals, (landscape architects; architects) and developers) how to create less environmentally damaging housing. Through checklists it provides a thorough assessment of a development's sustainability profile enabling a better understanding of the potential contribution and damage that the landscape can make. The checklists cover: energy; transport; pollution materials; water; land use and ecology; health and well-being.
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Book details

List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/22/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Andy Clayden is a landscape architect, garden designer, and a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, England.

Nigel Dunnett is a senior lecturer in the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield, England, where he has developed innovative research programs into naturalistic and ecologically-informed planting for gardens and public landscapes. He writes regularly for leading horticultural magazines and journals and lectures widely throughout the UK.

Acknowledgements
Putting residential development in a sustainable context
Introduction
Definitions of sustainable development and sustainable landscape
Sustainable development
Sustainable landscape
Sustainable development in English planning and development
The key role of housing in sustainable development
Current concepts and initiatives for delivering sustainable homes in England
What impact have these initiatives had on delivering sustainable residential communities?
References
Opportunities for improving the sustainable profile of new residential developments
Introduction
Conservation of resources and minimisation of pollution and waste
Energy consumption and microclimate control
Encouraging walking and cycling
Specification and detailed design of hard landscape materials
Specification and detailed design of soft landscape materials - vegetation
Water management
Enhancement of site ecological function and human well-being
Site ecological function
Providing for the health and well-being of residents
References
Creating a residential landscape sustainability checklist
Introduction
A review of sustainable checklist tools for residential development
A detailed description of the template BRE EcoHomes method
Adapting the EcoHomes method for landscape assessments
The Energy Category
The Transport Category
The Pollution Category
The Materials Category
The Water Category
The Ecology and Land Use Category
The Health and Well-Being Category
Adjusting the EcoHomes weighting factors
Setting compliance standards
Judging visual qualities
General limitations of the checklist assessment approach
References
Case studies: applying the Residential Landscape Sustainability Checklist
Introduction
Greenwich Millennium Village, London
Childwall, Liverpool
Evaluation of the case studies against the Residential Landscape Sustainability Checklist
The Energy Category
The Transport Category
The Pollution Category
The Materials Category
The Water Category
The Ecology and Land Use Category
The Health and Well-Being Category
What factors encouraged and discouraged residential landscape sustainability?
Factors which contribute to delivering residential landscape sustainability
Factors which may undermine landscape sustainability
Conclusion
References
Detailed Residential Landscape Sustainability Checklist
Index