Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors

The book re-evaluates the assumption that all built landscapes are environmentally sound, and offers pratical, professional alternatives for more sustainable landscape construction, design, and maintenance. Packed with clear concepts and never-before-compiled resources, the book is an inspiring overview of important practices and concerns.

Organzied around ten key principles of sustainability, the book offers specific methods that can help accomplish those principles. In addition, more than 100 projects from around the world are describled and illustrated, proving that sustainable methods are viable today- economically, functionally, and aesthetically.

★專業用書，無法提供教師贈書，敬請見諒。Ch1. Keep Healthy Sites HealthyCh2. Heal Injured Sites Ch3. Favor Living, Flexible MaterialsCh4. Respect the Waters of LifeCh5. Pave LessCh6. Consider Origin and Fate of MaterialsCh7. Know the Costs of Energy Over TimeCh8. Celebrate Light, Respect DarknessCh9. Quietly Defend Silence Ch10. Maintain to SustainCh11. Conclusions and Beginnings