Designing the Reclaimed Landscape

Description

The first practical yet in-depth exploration of how to reclaim the post-industrial landscape, this volume includes excellent case studies by practitioners and policy makers from around the US, giving first rate practical examples.

The book addresses new thinking about landscape, which applies new techniques to the task of transforming outdated and disused post-extraction landscapes through design. In the USA alone, there are nearly 500,000 abandoned mines in need of reclamation and this book provides the first in-depth guidance on this real and pressing issue.

Drawing on the work of the well-known Project for Reclamation Excellence at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, this volume outlines the latest design thinking, theory and practice for landscape planners, landscape architects and designers and others interested in maximizing the future potential of reclaimed land.

Contents

Introduction - Alan Berger

Part One: Policy and Design

Future Directions and Programs

1. Jeffrey D. Jarrett - Director, Office of Surface Mining, U.S. Department of the Interior

"On-the-ground results of award winning reclamation: 27 years of integrating reclaimed mine sites into the landscape"

2. Edward H. Chu - Director, Land Revitalization Office

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

"The EPA’s Land Revitalization Program: From Contamination to Restoration and Redevelopment"

3. Victor Ketellapper - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region VIII, Superfund Program/ Project Manager

"Landscape Reclamation Challenges at Superfund Sites: The Superfund Redevelopment Program"

4. Robert Micsak - Executive Vice President and General Counsel, CBS Outdoor Inc., former Executive Officer of Law and Environment, for AngloGold Ltd.

"The Legal Landscape"

Part Two: Collaboration and Design

Interdisciplinary Responses and Opportunities in Reclamation

5. Victor Ketellapper - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region VIII, Superfund Program/ Project Manager

"Overcoming Financial and Environmental Liability Barriers to

Abandoned Mine Reclamation at the French Gulch Site"

6. T. Allan Comp, Ph.D. - Program Analyst, Office of Surface Mining and Director: AMD&ART

"Science and the Arts in Public Reclamation: Both Necessary, Neither Sufficient" "Crowley Creek: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Reclamation Planning"

7. Jon Cherry, PE

"Case Studies of Successful Reclamation and Sustainable Development at Kennecott Mining Sites"

8. Belinda Arbogast - U.S. Geological Survey/Physical Scientist

"Creating a landscape design agenda in a scientifically based mining world"

9. Caroline Digby - Development Director, Post-Mining Alliance

"Post-Mining Alliance – Building Partnerships for Post-Mining Regeneration"

10. William Simon - Animas Watershed Coordinator; owner of Alpine Environmental Services, focused on stream, wetland, and mined land restoration.

"Community based reclamation of abandoned mine lands in the Animas Watershed, Colorado"

Part Three: Contemporary Technologies and Design

Envisioning Reclamation Strategies

11. Billie Clark Jr. - Manager, National Technical Innovation and Professional Services Program, Office of Surface Mining, U.S. Department of the Interior

"Real-Time Coal Mining and Reclamation: OSM’s Technical Innovation and Professional Services (TIPS) Program"

12. Alan Berger - Associate Professor GSD, Founding Director P-REX.

Case Brown - Research Associate Harvard Center for the Environment

"Digital Ecolo-Econo Simulation: Advancing the Evolutionary Role of Representation"

Part Four: Reclamation Design Theory

Contextualizing Landscape Alteration through Historic, Systemic, and Biologic Perspectives

13. Peter del Tredici - Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

"Rebuilding Ecological Networks in a Changing World"

14. Dorion Sagan - Sciencewriters, General Partner

"What is Mine is Mine and What is Yours is Mine: Engineering in its Natural Context"

15. Frederick Turner- Founders Professor of Art and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas

"Valuing Alteration"

16. Roger G. Kennedy - Former Director, the National Park Service, Director Emeritus, the National Museum of American History.

"Expansion, Reservation, Withdrawal and Reclamation"

17. Eric D. Schneider - Hawkwood Institute

"Thermodynamics, Energy Flow, and Ecosystem Development: Designing for a Continuum"

Introduction Part One: Contextualizing Landscape Alteration through Historic, Systemic, and Biologic Perspectives Valuing Alteration Frederick Turner Disturbance Ecology and Symbiosis in Mine-Reclamation Design Peter del Tredici Gold and the Gift: theory and design in a mine reclamation project Rod Barnett What is Mine is Mine and What is Yours is Mine: Engineering in its Natural Context Dorion Sagan Ecological Succession and Its Role in Landscape Reclamation Eric D. Schneider Interrogating a Landscape Design Agenda in the Scientifically Based Mining World Belinda Arbogast Part Two: Interdisciplinary Responses and Opportunities in Reclamation Science, Art, and Environmental Reclamation: Three Projects and a Few Thoughts T. Allan Comp The Wellington Oro Mine-Site Cleanup: Integrating the Cleanup of an Abandoned Mine Site with the Community’s Vision of Land Preservation and Affordable Housing Victor Ketellapper Building Partnerships for Post-Mining Regeneration--Post-Mining Alliance at the Eden Project Caroline Digby Community based reclamation of abandoned mine lands in the Animas Watershed, Colorado William Simon Case Studies of Successful Reclamation and Sustainable Development at Kennecott Mining Sites Jon Cherry Part Three: Technology, Representation, and Information in Reclamation Design Digital Simulation and Design: Adapting to the Altered Landscapes Alan Berger and Case Brown Cashin Mine Site Reclamation Scenarios-From Haul Road to Economic Engine Alan Berger and Case Brown Reclaiming the Woods: Trail Strategies for the Golden Horsehoe’s Historic Mining Roads Alan Berger and Bart Lounsbury Real-Time Coal Mining and Reclamation: OSM’s Technical Innovation and Professional Services (TIPS) Program Billie Clark, Jr. Part Four: Future Directions and Programs in U.S. Reclamation Policy and Law The Land Revitalization Initiative: Landscape Design and Reuse Planning in Mine Reclamation Edward H. Chu The Legal Landscape Robert W. Micsak

Author Bio

Alan Berger is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Project for Reclamation Excellence at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Related Subjects

1. Environmental Geography
2. Landscape Architecture
3. Landscape Conservation & Countryside Management