Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-use Planning (Paperback)

Wenche E. Dramstad

ISBN 10: 1559635142 / ISBN 13: 9781559635141

Editore: Island Press, Washington, 1996

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Paperback. 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 A handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field of landscape ecology, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-use Planning (Paperback)
• Editore: Island Press, Washington
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1559635142
• ISBN 13: 9781559635141
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione: new

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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

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