Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape

by Michael Ogden and Craig S. Campbell

LandscapeConstructed wetlands are gaining worldwide acceptance as effective, low-cost, and low-impact alternatives to unsightly, high-impact wastewater treatment facilities. The creative involvement of today's planners, landscape architects, developers, environmental engineers, and public officials is helping to maximize the potential of these wetland habitats--from their aesthetics to their multiple uses as water treatment plants, wildlife refuges,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471107204
• ISBN13: 9780471107200
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great All-around Guide for Constructed Wetlands

This book has become an invaluable reference around our office...for the engineers, landscape architect and directors. The book covers a range of useful topics, from design basics (including relevant modeling formulas), pricing estimates, integration information for planners, citizens and regulators, wetland ecology background notes, landscaping ideas and wonderful examples of systems that the authors themselves have designed and installed. The book highlights the benefits of wetlands often overlooked or undervalued in other engineering-oriented texts - wildlife habitat creation, aesthetics, water recharge, etc. Since the book was writen by a landscape architect and an engineer, two visionary pioneers in their fields, it covers a lot of useful ground.