Designing Greenways by Daniel Smith

Designing Greenways by Daniel Smith

How are greenways designed? What situations lead to their genesis, and what examples best illustrate their potential for enhancing communities and the environment? Designing greenways is a key to protecting landscapes, allowing wildlife to move freely, and finding appropriate ways to bring people into nature. This book brings together examples from ecology, conservation biology, aquatic ecology, and recreation design to illustrate how greenways function and add value to ecosystems and human communities alike. Encompassing everything from urban trail corridors to river flood-plains to wilderness-like linkages, greenways preserve or improve the integrity of the landscape, not only by stemming the loss of natural features, but also by engendering new natural and social functions.

Paul Cawood Hellmund is director of the Conway School of Landscape Design in western Massachusetts. He lives in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Daniel Smith teaches environmental studies at Ramapo College and resides in Mahwah, New Jersey.

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ISBN 13	9781559633253
ISBN 10	1559633255
Title	Designing Greenways
Author	Daniel Smith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Island Press
Year published	2006-04-01
Number of pages	288
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