Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning Seeking a Balance in Western Water Use

Name: Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning Seeking a Balance in Western Water Use
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ISBN: 9781559635141

ISBN-10: 1559635142

ISBN-13: 9781559635141

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Wenche E. Dramstad, James D. Olson, David M. Gillilan, Richard T. Forman, Thomas C. Brown

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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…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 9/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword


Preface and Acknowledgments


Foundations



Principles


Patches


Edges and boundaries


Corridors and Connectivity


Mosaics



Practical Applications


Schematic Applications


Case studies in brief


Summary and Conclusion


Additional References