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Description: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. With functions ranging from habitat enhancement, food production, recreation, wastewater treatment and stormwater management, the best constructed wetlands are multi-functional systems that provide ecosystem services in every category provisioning, regulating, cultural and supportingBecause constructed wetlands are complex natural systems this book emphasizes the interdisciplinary efforts required to plan, engineer, design and monitor them. Sections address resource management (landscape planning), technical issues (environmental engineering), recreation planning and physical design (landscape architecture) and biological systems (ecology). Additionally, a number of planning and application scales will be addressed as constructed wetlands can be part of a national strategy of flood management or the stormwater treatment implemented on a residential parcel. Included throughout are case studies from the US, Europe and China, which show how these principles have been put into practice.Written for upper level students and practitioners, this highly illustrated book provides designers with the tools they need to ensure constructed wetlands are sustainably created and well managed."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development. To get started finding Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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. With functions ranging from habitat enhancement, food production, recreation, wastewater treatment and stormwater management, the best constructed wetlands are multi-functional systems that provide ecosystem services in every category provisioning, regulating, cultural and supportingBecause constructed wetlands are complex natural systems this book emphasizes the interdisciplinary efforts required to plan, engineer, design and monitor them. Sections address resource management (landscape planning), technical issues (environmental engineering), recreation planning and physical design (landscape architecture) and biological systems (ecology). Additionally, a number of planning and application scales will be addressed as constructed wetlands can be part of a national strategy of flood management or the stormwater treatment implemented on a residential parcel. Included throughout are case studies from the US, Europe and China, which show how these principles have been put into practice.Written for upper level students and practitioners, this highly illustrated book provides designers with the tools they need to ensure constructed wetlands are sustainably created and well managed."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development. To get started finding Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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