Sustainable Residential Landscapes

<p>This book is a compilation of 10 recently published academic articles addressing sustainable residential landscape design and planning across geographies scales and perspectives: from American rain garden design to South Korean urban forestry; from Mexican community open space design to Australian neighborhood park planning; and from Chinese urban design to Bolivian land-use change. This volume brings together authors from a growing community of landscape sustainability scholars of landscape architecture and architecture; planning and construction; ecology and horticulture; agricultural and environmental sciences; and health exercise and nutrition. In summary these papers address facets of a fundamental challenge for the 21<sup>st</sup> century: the design and planning of sustainable and resilient human settlements.</p>