Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

by Richard T.T. Forman, James D. Olson, Wenche E. Dramstad

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559635142
• ISBN13: 9781559635141
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Good refresher or introduction

Quick read if you want to avoid digging through peer-review journals to learn the same principles.