Sustainable Industrial Landscape Plan and Design; . - Total Human Ecosystem Formation and Evolution on Blakeley Island, Mobile, Alabama

This book applies the Total Human Ecosystem as a guiding concept in coastal urban communities to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship between industrial parks and their surrounding wetlands. The early 21st century has been shaped by a need for economic recovery, and by climate change. Consequently, new development models that promote both economic growth and environmental preservation are urgently needed. 
In turn, the book puts forward an innovative proposal to achieve the shift from a hard path to a soft path through landscape architectural interventions, one that will help industrial factories and their surrounding wetlands coevolve toward sustainability. Through the incorporation of science and design, the proposal for the Total Human Ecosystem on Blakeley Island integrates industry with its surrounding environment. The design scenarios for this new living system are based on scientific principles of landscape ecology that take into account both the human and nonhuman environments as components of the land mosaic. 
Sustainability is not a final status that is achieved once and for all; it is an ongoing challenge. As a case study, this proposal outlines the urgently needed reconciliation between industrial parks and their surrounding natural ecosystems, and promotes the evolution of both components toward sustainability.

Sommario

The Issue of Jobs versus the Environment and Research Question.- Principles: Landscape Ecology and Total Human Ecosystem.- Design Scenario: Formation and Coevolution.- Proposal Evaluation: Conclusion and Critique.

Info autore

Long Zhou, Ph.D in Planning, Design and Construction Science, is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau. Dr. Zhou's research interests and creative activities focus on ecological planning and design, performance measures of ecosystem services and landscapes, and urban disaster planning and design. Dr. Zhou is the principle investigator for serval research projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Macau Foundation.

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori	Long Zhou
Editore	Springer, Berlin
Lingue	Inglese
Formato	Tascabile
Pubblicazione	01.10.2020
EAN	9789811572562
ISBN	978-981-1572-56-2
Pagine	41
Dimensioni	161 mm x 4 mm x 232 mm
Peso	108 g
Illustrazioni	XIII, 41 p. 25 illus., 22 illus. in color.
Serie	SpringerBriefs in Geography
Categoria	Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Long Zhou
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.10.2020
• EAN: 9789811572562
• ISBN: 978-981-1572-56-2
• Pagine: 41
• Dimensioni: 161 mm x 4 mm x 232 mm
• Peso: 108 g
• Illustrazioni: XIII, 41 p. 25 illus., 22 illus. in color.
• Serie: SpringerBriefs in Geography
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia