Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
By Wenche Dramstad, James D. Olson, Richard T.T. Forman
Publisher: Island Press
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1559635142
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781559635141
Binding: Paperback
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
Summary: Good refresher or introduction
Rating: 4
Quick read if you want to avoid digging through peer-review journals to learn the same principles.
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