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LITERATURE REVIEW BOOK REVIEW A Review of Sustainable Landscaping: Principles and Practices Article in Journal of Agricultural & Food Information · October 2015 -This article includes review of book sustainable landscaping: principles and practices by Marietta Loehrlein .This title provides a thorough overview of landscaping with sustainability as the emphasis. The first chapter of book sets the context, defining sustainability, giving a short history of the sustainability movement, and mentioning key scholars as well as first principles; as with medicine, the core concept is “do no harm”; second principle is conservation, reservation and regeneration. Also, there is information about soil, carbon, fertilization and building up organic matter creating and using compost phytoremediation , use of and precautions with pesticides and the like. Also, there are Tables of beneficial and invasive trees, flowers and shrubs, and several lists of native species for specific purposes, such as attracting butterflies, are a useful inclusion also there is one chapter which includes the water conservation and brief case studies from Colorado, Arizona, and California and the use of gray water for irrigation; students of architecture and horticulture can use this book as textbook as this book language is not highly technical and most of the terms are defined. Article: review 1 What do we mean by sustainable landscape? Dimensions of sustainable landscape: environment, economics, society, governance, sustainable development is generally considered to at intersection of environment economy and society, although these terms are now often expanded into phrases reflecting eco system services and limits. Many authors also draw attention to fourth dimension of political sustainability referring tom the governance's mechanisms that continuously deliver sustainable development through the use of responsible science and economics. the millennium ecosystem assessment (2005) has popularized the notion of ecosystem services underpinning human wellbeing notably provisioning services such as flood, water, timber and fiber. regulating services that affect climate, floods, disease, waste and water quality supporting services such as formation, photosynthesis and nutrient cycling. Article: review 2 Importance of humane design for sustainable landscape sustainable landscape? -sustainable landscape architecture is architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, development spaces.
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