Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning |
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| Author:
| Dramstad, Wenche
Olson, James D.
Forman, Richard T. T. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61091-467-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2013 |
| Publisher: | Island Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $31.00 |
Book Description:
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Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.
This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific...
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Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.
This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.
Chapters cover:
- patches -- size, number, and location
- edges and boundaries
- corridors and connectivity
- mosaics
- summaries of case studies from around the world