num_pages: 80
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:
language: English
title: Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
titlecomplete: Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
genres: Design, Landscape Architecture
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Island Press