by Wenche Dramstad, James D. Olson and Richard T.T. Forman
Island Press, 1996
Paper: 978-1-55963-514-1 | eISBN: 978-1-61091-467-3
Library of Congress Classification SB472.3.D73 1996

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ABOUT THIS BOOK


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