"Landscape and Sustainability" ed. by Maggie Roe, John Benson (Repost)

This book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This edition contains updated and new material reflecting the developments in the field during the last five years, addressing the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability in a comprehensive way.

Much in the text is underpinned by landscape ecology, in contrast to the idea of landscape as only appealing to the eye or aspiring cerebrally to be fine art. As this exceptional cast of contributors argue, landscape is and must be much more than this; landscape architecture is about making places which are biologically wholesome, socially just and spiritually rewarding.
The book establishes that the sustainability agenda needs a new mindset among professionals.
The chapters in the book move progressively from theory to practice, from the global to the local scale and from issues of policy and planning through to detailed design and implementation and on to long-term maintenance and management.

CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 LANDSCAPE AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW
2 THE ETHICS OF SUSTAINABILITY
3 THE LANDSCAPE OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS
4 THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF LANDSCAPE SUSTAINABILITY
5 INTERNATIONAL POLICIES AND LANDSCAPE PROTECTION
6 LANDSCAPE AND SUSTAINABILITY AT THE NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SCALES
7 LANDSCAPE PLANNING AT THE REGIONAL SCALE
8 MULTI-FUNCTIONAL LANDSCAPES: CONCEPTUAL AND PLANNING ISSUES FOR THE COUNTRYSIDE
9 LANDSCAPE, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY
10 RESOURCES: THE RAW MATERIALS OF LANDSCAPE
11 THE PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
12 THE COMMUNITY AND THE LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONAL
13 SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT
14 VISIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY
INDEX