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Landscape ecology principles in landscape architecture and land-use planning / Wenche E. Dramstad, James D. Olson, and Richard T.T. Forman.
Fine Arts Library SB472.3 .D73 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dramstad, Wenche E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape architecture.
- Landscape ecology.
- Land use--Planning.
- Land use.
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Cambridge? Mass.] : Harvard University Graduate School of Design ; Washington, DC : Island Press ; [Washington, D.C.?] : American Society of Landscape Architects, [1996]
- Summary:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1559635142
- OCLC:
- 36033103
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