Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning - by Wenche Dramstad & James D Olson & Richard T T Forman (Paperback)

Book 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

From the Back Cover

Landscape ecology - the ecology of large heterogeneous areas, lanscapes, regions, or simply of land mosaics, has rapidly emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning is an essential handbook that presents and explains principles of landscape ecology and provides numerous examples of how those principles can be applied in specific situations.