Product Details
Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Island Press; 1 edition (September 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559635142
ISBN-13: 978-1559635141
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