The Sustainable Sites Handbook: A Complete Guide to the Principles, Strategies, and Best Practices for Sustainable Landscapes- 1st Edition -2011, Ebook PDF Version – Digital Instant Dowload.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470643552
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470643556
• Author:  Meg Calkins

The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) is transforming land design, development, and management practices across the United States with the first national rating system for sustainable landscapes. The Sustainable Sites Handbook features comprehensive and detailed information on principles, strategies, technologies, tools, and best practices for sustainable site design. Contributors to this book are some of the same experts that carefully shaped the SITES rating tool, ensuring thorough coverage of the broad range of topics related to sustainable site design.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 – Introduction 1

Chapter 2 – Predesign: Site Selection, Assessment, and Planning 33

Chapter 3 – Site Design: Water 65

Chapter 4 – Site Design: Vegetation 197

Chapter 5 – Site Design: Soils 247

Chapter 6 – Site Design: Materials and R esources 323

Chapter 7 – Human Health and Well-Being for Sustainable Sites 429

Chapter 8 – Operations, Maintenance, Monitoring, and Stewardship 479