Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781559635141
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 1996
Publisher: Island Press


Description:

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