Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-402) and index.
About the Author
Wenche E. Dramstad is a landscape ecologist based in Rakkestad, Norway.
James D. Olson is principal and co-founder of Reeves, Olson, and Wamble, LLC based in Newton, Massachusetts.
Richard T.T. Forman teaches at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.