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Overview:Habitation
andLivelihoodContext
fortheRestorative
Redevelopmentofthe
IraqiMarshlands
Section 3 comprises six chapters that deal with innovative approaches and tech-
nologies to promote sustainable living in association with the restorative redevelop-
ment of the Iraqi marshlands and other landscapes devastated by conflict or natural
disasters. Together, these chapters describe means to ensure that residents can move
about, treat their sanitary effluent, and husband their farms in ways that will not be
deleterious to the restored environment. The most important lesson from these chap-
ters is the understanding that the marshlands are very much living landscapes that
have been and hopefully will be inhabited by thousands of people going about their
daily lives amidst the wonderful nature.
In terms of transportation planning and design, chapter 17 by Ilze Jones, Ints
Luters, Rene Senos, and Robert France describes an award-winning case study
wherein a highway was sensitively built with the landscape rather than against it,
and through the cooperation of the indigenous peoples as opposed to against their
values and wishes.
For alternative wastewater treatment, reuse, and infrastructure, chapter 18 pro-
vides a comprehensive review of technological and ancillary aspects involved with
treating water in a way to integrate wetland restoration into communities. David
Austin's chapter (chapter 19) reviews the issues of cultural attitudes to wastewater
and its decentralized treatment and harvesting for reuse. In chapter 20, Scott Wallace
summarizes the planning and management challenges of operating varying types of
small-scale wastewater treatment infrastructure.
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