Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

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

Author: Wenche Dramstad,James D. Olson,Richard T. T. Forman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781559635141