Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

Editorial Reviews Book 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

Card catalog description Instream Flow Protection is a comprehensive overview of Western water use and the issues that surround it. The authors explain instream flow and its historical, political, and legal context; describe current instream flow laws and policies; and present methods of protecting instream flow.

Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning,Wenche E. Dramstad,James D. Olson,Richard T. T. Forman,Island Press,1559635142,Architecture,Conservation Of Natural Resources (General),Ecology,Land use,Landscape,Landscape Architecture And Design,Landscape architecture,Landscape ecology,Nature,Planning,Science/Mathematics,Water Supply

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