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Design with the Desert
Conservation and Sustainable Development
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Design with the Desert
Conservation and Sustainable Development
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Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more sustainable way. It offers valuable insights to help promote ecological balance between nature and the built environment in the American Southwest-and in other ecologically fragile regions around the world.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Editors
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 - Deserts of the World
- Chapter 2 - Geology and Soils in Deserts of the Southwestern United States
- Chapter 3 - Scales of Climate in Designing with the Desert
- Chapter 4 - Water Resources in the Desert Southwest
- Chapter 5 - Geologic, Hydrologic, and Urban Hazards for Design in Desert Environments
- Chapter 6 - Deep History and Biogeography of La Frontera
- Chapter 7 - Vegetation Zones of the Southwest
- Chapter 8 - Plant Ecology of the Sonoran Desert Region
- Chapter 9 - Wildlife and Anthropogenic Changes in the Arid Southwest
- Chapter 10 - Healing the Wounds: An Example from the Sky Islands
- Chapter 11 - Built to Burn
- Chapter 12 - Restoring Ecosystem Health in Frequent-Fire Forests of the American West
- Chapter 13 - Ecological Planning Method
- Chapter 14 - Phoenix as Everycity: A Closer Look at Sprawl in the Desert
- Chapter 15 - Water Planning for Growing Southwestern Communities
- Chapter 16 - Removable and Place-Based Economies: Alternative Futures for Americaâs Deserts
- Chapter 17 - Environmental Injustice in the Urban Southwest: A Case Study of Phoenix, Arizona
- Chapter 18 - Dwelling in Expanded Biotic Communities: Steps Toward Reconstructive Postmodern Communities
- Chapter 19 - Dialogue on Development
- Chapter 20 - Ecological Design
- Chapter 21 - Rainwater Harvesting and Stormwater Reuse for Arid Environments
- Chapter 22 - Designing Habitats in Urban Environments
- Chapter 23 - Native Plant Salvaging and Reuse in Southwestern Deserts
- Chapter 24 - Sustainable Urban Living: Green Solar Energy for Food and Biofuels Production
- Chapter 25 - Desert Urbanism
- Chapter 26 - Settlement, Growth, and Water Security for Southwest Cities
- Chapter 27 - Creating Tomorrow
- Chapter 28 - Desert Vernacular: Green Building and Ecological Design in Scottsdale, Arizona
- Chapter 29 - Sustainable Energy Alternatives for the Southwest
- Chapter 30 - Search for a Lean Alternative
- Chapter 31 - Creating Sustainable Futures for Southwestern Cities: The ProtoCity⢠Approach in the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas Metroplex
- Back Cover