The Permaculture Earthworks Handbook : How to Design and Build Swales, Dams, Ponds, and other Water Harvesting Systems (9780865718449)

Maximize your water harvesting potential with efficient, cost-effective earthworks

In the face of drought and desertification, well-designed, water harvesting earthworks such as swales, ponds, and dams are the most effective way to channel water into productive use. The result can be increased food production, higher groundwater levels, reduced irrigation needs, and enhanced ecosystem resilience.

Yet, due to a lack of knowledge, designers, and landowners often build earthworks that are costly, inappropriately sized and sited, or even dangerous. The Permaculture Earthworks Handbook is the first dedicated, detailed guide to the proper design and construction of water harvesting earthworks. It covers the function, design, and construction methods for nine main types of water harvesting earthworks across a full range of climates.

Coverage includes:

Swales, ponds, dams, hugelkultur, net-and-pan systems, spate irrigation, and more
Cost versus benefit of different earthworks
Assessing site needs and suitability
Soil types and hydrology
Designing for maximum efficiency and lowest cost
Risk assessment and safe construction
Stacking functions and integrating earthworks into a design

This practical handbook is the essential resource for permaculture designers, teachers and students, landowners, farmers, homesteaders, landscape architects, and others involved in maximizing the water harvesting potential of any landscape at the lowest cost and impact.

Douglas Barnes is a permaculture designer trained in Australia by Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. He has designed and built earthworks in North America, Japan, and Andra Pradesh, India. He lives in Tweed, Ontario in a passive solar house he designed and built, and he blogs at permaculturerelections.com.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 192 pages
• Dimensions 191 x 229 x 12.7mm | 362.87g
• Publication date 10 Oct 2017
• Publisher New Society Publishers
• Publication City/Country Gabriola Island, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 086571844X
• ISBN13 9780865718449
• Bestsellers rank 81,465

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