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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484604803321

Autore

Zhou Long <1953->

Titolo

Sustainable industrial landscape plan and design : total human ecosystem formation and evolution on Blakeley Island, Mobile, Alabama / / Long Zhou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gateway East, Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

981-15-7257-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 41 p. 25 illus., 22 illus. in color.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Geography, , 2211-4165

Disciplina

307.1416

Soggetti

Sustainable urban development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.