Product Description: Water transforms a garden into a haven, giving movement and peace, as well as a focus. Yet water gardens are often considered too ambitious a feature. This practical book places water gardens firmly within reach of all gardeners, and gives a wide range of design ideas, from a modest fountain feature or bubbling rock to a full-scale waterfall or pond complete with bridge...read more

Product Description: Book by May, Peter J.

Product Description: Book by May, Peter J.

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Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative vs. coercive environmental management, through a focus on the management of natural hazards. Leading experts in the field examine new and innovative environmental management and planning programmes with particular focus on North America and Australia. This book offers a new understanding of environmental problems and explores the appropriate policy mix that must be developed for environmental management to strive towards environmental sustainability.

Product Description: This book examines the evolution of federal disaster relief policy, assesses problems with current policy, and provides an understanding of the issues likely to be involved in future deliberations about federal policy. While examining its formulation, May describes this policy making in two different political environments: the charged atmosphere immediately following the catastrophe and, secondly, the calm between catastrophes...read more