Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
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Book Overview
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
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1559635142
ISBN13:9781559635141
Release Date:September 1996
Publisher:Island Press
Length:80 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.9" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Good refresher or introduction
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Quick read if you want to avoid digging through peer-review journals to learn the same principles.
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