Landscape Ecology Principles In Landscape Architecture And Land Use Planning

Author : Wenche Dramstad
Publisher : Shearwater Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning written by Wenche Dramstad and published by Shearwater Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape ecology - the ecology of large heterogeneous areas, landscapes, regions, or simply of land mosaics, has rapidly emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning is an essential handbook that presents and explains principles of landscape ecology and provides numerous examples of how those principles can be applied in specific situations.

Author : Travis Beck
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597267023
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Ecological Landscape Design written by Travis Beck and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes—from public parks to backyards—to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Sustainability means more than just saving energy and resources. It requires integrating the landscapes we design with ecological systems. With Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the science of ecology into design practice. This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers biogeography and plant selection, assembling plant communities, competition and coexistence, designing ecosystems, materials cycling and soil ecology, plant-animal interactions, biodiversity and stability, disturbance and succession, landscape ecology, and global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape. The demand for this information is rising as professional associations like the American Society of Landscape Architects adopt new sustainability guidelines (SITES). But the need goes beyond certifications and rules. For constructed landscapes to perform as we need them to, we must get their underlying ecology right. Principles of Ecological Landscape Design provides the tools to do just that.

Author : Lech Ryszkowski
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000611760
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Ecology in Agroecosystems Management written by Lech Ryszkowski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-12-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful management of agricultural landscapes depends on the recognition of the relationships between the processes and the structures that maintain the system. The rapidly growing science of Landscape Ecology quantifies the ways these ecosystems interact and establishes a link between the activities in one region and repercussions in another. A

Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.5E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Ecology written by Richard T. T. Forman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1986-02-10 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new work--the first of its kind--focuses on the distribution patterns of landscape elements or ecosystems; the flows of animals, plants, energy, mineral nutrients and water; and the ecological changes in the landscape over time. Includes over 1,200 references from current ecology, geography, forestry, and wildlife biologcy literature.

Author : Norman T. Newton
Publisher : La Editorial, UPR
ISBN 13 : 9780674198708
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design on the Land written by Norman T. Newton and published by La Editorial, UPR. This book was released on 1971 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Author : Joan Nassauer
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910990
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Placing Nature written by Joan Nassauer and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes beyond investigation of pristine environments to consider ecological questions that are raised by patterns of farming, forestry, towns, and cities.Placing Nature is a groundbreaking volume in the field of landscape ecology, the result of collaborative work among experts in ecology, philosophy, art, literature, geography, landscape architecture, and history. Contributors asked each other: What is our appropriate role in nature? How are assumptions of Western culture and ingrained traditions placed in a new context of ecological knowledge? In this book, they consider the goals and strategies needed to bring human-dominated landscapes into intentional relationships with nature, articulating widely varied approaches to the task.In the essays: novelist Jane Smiley, ecologist Eville Gorham, and historian Curt Meine each examine the urgent realities of fitting together ecological function and culture philosopher Marcia Eaton and landscape architect Joan Nassauer each suggest ways to use the culture of nature to bring ecological health into settled landscapes urban geographer Judith Martin and urban historian Sam Bass Warner, geographer and landscape architect Deborah Karasov, and ecologist William Romme each explore the dynamics of land development decisions for their landscape ecological effects artist Chris Faust's photographs juxtapose the crass and mundane details of land use with the poetic power of ecological pattern.Every possible future landscape is the embodiment of some human choice. Placing Nature provides important insight for those who make such choices -- ecologists, ecosystem managers, watershed managers, conservation biologists, land developers, designers, planners -- and for all who wish to promote the ecological health of their communities.

Author : Vittorio Ingegnoli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662046911
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Ecology: A Widening Foundation written by Vittorio Ingegnoli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent need for a sustainable environment has resulted in the increased recognition of the field of landscape ecology amongst policy makers working in the area of nature conservation, restoration and territorial planning. Nonetheless, the question of what is precisely meant by the term landscape ecology'is still unresolved. No doubt, a proper foundation of the discipline must first be cemented. This book develops such a foundation. In doing so it provides all the diverse applications of the discipline with a solid framework and proposes an effective diagnostic methodology to investigate the ecological state and the pathologies of the landscape.

Author : Tom Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design written by Tom Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of books on environmental planning, this comprehensive text focuses on environmental impact assessment and design.

Author : Robert Lawrence France
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730739
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wetland Design written by Robert Lawrence France and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wetlands combine the beauty of both aesthetic form and ecological function in a way that few other landforms can match.

Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521479806
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Mosaics written by Richard T. T. Forman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-09 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis and synthesis of the ecology of heterogeneous land areas.