Landforming: An Environmental Approach to Hillside Development, Mine Reclamation and Watershed Restoration

Landforming: An Environmental Approach to Hillside Development, Mine Reclamation and Watershed Restoration is the first hands-on instruction guide to landform grading and revegetation.

Landform grading provides a cost-effective, attractive, and environmentally compatible way to construct slopes and other landforms that are stable and that blend in with the natural surroundings. Landform grading design and construction technology have advanced rapidly during the past decade, and this book explains the technique, its uses, its various applications, and its significant advantages.

Landforming: An Environmental Approach to Hillside Development, Mine Reclamation and Watershed Restoration, represents the first comprehensive and practical guidebook to the innovative techniques of landform grading and revegetation. Citing numerous practical applications in such areas as hillside housing developments, mass grading operations, surface mining and watershed reclamation projects, the authors, one an internationally recognized instructor and the other an engineer with more than 30 years of practical experience in the field, have teamed up to provide valuable information on:

• The aesthetic and ecological benefits of landform grading and revegetation
• Analyses that demonstrate the stability of landform designed slopes
• Real-world design/construction procedures
• Construction in both upland slope areas and in stream corridors
• Analytical procedures and design aids to assist implementation
• Well documented and comprehensive case studies of actual projects.

Written in straightforward language and liberally illustrated with informative photographs and schematic drawings, Landforming: An Environmental Approach to Hillside Development, Mine Reclamation and Watershed Restoration should prove of value to practicing professionals in such diverse fields as land planning, civil and geotechnical engineering, landscape architecture and geology as well as to personnel in a variety of local, state and federal regulatory agencies and environmental interest groups.