Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

Download or read book Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning written by Wenche Dramstad and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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