Australian Planting Design identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale, raising awareness of the essential elements and encouraging readers to look with fresh eyes, to create anew. This …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Landscape Architecture
Essentials of Urban Design explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design outcomes. It is equally useful for designing places and evaluating designs. Each …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
A step-by-step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies, Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design decisions and create more green, …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design is a comprehensive account of the open pit slope design process. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on rock slope …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Mining and Resources
Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analysing tree improvement trials. Using examples, it outlines how to: design field, …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Agroforestry
Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Building
Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design is a comprehensive, practical guide to the investigation, design, operation and monitoring of mine waste dumps, dragline spoils and major stockpiles associated with large open pit …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Engineering
Weak rocks encountered in open pit mines cover a wide variety of materials, with properties ranging between soil and rock. As such, they can provide a significant challenge for the slope designer. For these materials, the mass strength can …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Mining and Resources
Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery. It …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
Managing the urban water cycle needs to be underpinned by key sustainability principles of water consumption, water recycling, waste minimisation and environmental protection. The integration of urban water cycle management with urban planning …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Engineering
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services. Interest in …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Building
Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability is a comprehensive account of the hydrogeological procedures that should be followed when performing open pit slope stability design studies. Created as an outcome of the Large …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Mining and Resources
The intense concentration of human activity in urban areas leads to changes in both the quantity and quality of runoff that eventually reaches our streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts. The increasing use of impervious surfaces …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Engineering
These soil specifications have been extracted from the second edition of Soils for Landscape Development and are provided as an editable PDF for ease of use in reports compiled by landscape designers for their clients. Please note …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Landscape Architecture
This second edition of the award-winning Soils for Landscape Development provides a globally applicable method for landscape architects and designers, specification writers, landscape contractors, nursery growers, turf specialists …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Soils
Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage provides the first national survey of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape. This ambitious account looks at every state and territory from the earliest …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
Although most mining companies utilise systems for slope monitoring, experience indicates that mining operations continue to be surprised by the occurrence of adverse geotechnical events. A comprehensive and robust performance monitoring …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Mining and Resources
Spray Drift Management focuses on managing the risks associated with pesticide spray application, in particular, spray drift onto non-target areas. Designed to assist chemical users and primary industry sectors to develop spray drift …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Crops and Pastures
Imagine you are a scientist faced with presenting your research clearly and concisely. Where would you go for help? This book provides the answer. It shows how to use story structure to craft clear, credible presentations. In it you will …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Education
This book draws on the author’s considerable expertise in land development processes and planning, and planning education. It takes a learning-by-doing studio approach and shows how to undertake a development feasibility study in three main …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design