Meg Calkins

Broschiertes Buch

Details and Materials for Resilient Sites

A Climate Positive Approach

Beschreibung

Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st Century.

Autor

Meg Calkins, FCELA, FASLA, is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at North Carolina State University. She holds an MLA and MArch from the University of California at Berkeley and has taught and written about resilient site design and sustainable construction for over 25 years. Meg is also the author of Materials for Sustainable Sites (2008) and editor of the Sustainable Sites Handbook (2012). She has been a frequent contributing editor to Landscape Architecture magazine, writing several articles on site construction materials and exemplary designed works, and she won the Bradford Williams Medal for Journalistic Excellence in 2003. Meg has taken an active leadership role in development and implementation of the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) since 2003. In 2023-24, Meg received a Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship for Leadership and Innovation where she developed key themes for this book. She currently serves on the LAF Board of Directors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 278mm x 207mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1504g
• ISBN-13: 9781032538570
• ISBN-10: 1032538570
• Artikelnr.: 72488622