Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
Synopsis
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
- Hakimiliki:
- 1996 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781559635141
- Publisher:
- Island Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2017-11-08T00:21:41Z
- Lugha:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.