Ecological Planning
Subtitle: A Historical and Comparative Synthesis (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 10, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801868016
Subjects: Applied ecology; Management of land & natural resources; Landscape ecology; Gardening / Horticulture; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Life Sciences - Ecology; General; Natural Resources; Architecture / Landscape; Ecological landscape design; Landscape assessment
First sentence: In the nineteenth century, visionary thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Frederick Law Olmsted, and George Perkins Marsh alerted us to the effects of human abuses of the landscape.
Description: "Should be read by all institutional and public choice economists who work toward solving problems associated with human use of the natural environment."--Journal of Economic Issues.