Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

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

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:

Genres: Landscape Architecture, Design

80 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish I had this used for my landscape ecology course. Hopefully it's not too out of date at this point though...

[Zara · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good, quick primer. It contains ocer arching principles to generate discussion and interest in the research that supports it.

[Zelton Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm an absolute GEEK for sustainable land management!

[Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love landscape ecology, and have read books about it, in addition to aceing a graduate course in it, so I was able to wade through the hand-drawn diagrams and sparse, inelegant text of this book. I also have better than 20/20 vision, so the 6-10pt font sizes (8-10pt for the regular text, 6pt for the references and marginal notes and other 'small print') were not enough of a challenge to prevent my reading this book. I am really not sure who would find this book useflu, besides students in a graduate or advanced undergrad landscape ecology course. For them, this might be a useful supplement to class notes, but many of the diagrams and text descriptions won't be very helpful without a lot of additional material or background. This book strikes me as a professor's course notes and slides tidied up just enough to make a presentable, if not exactly readable published book. Landscape ecology is still a young field, so there aren't so many compatitors yet, but still I'd bet there are better resources published on this subject.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent overview of the main principles of landscape ecology with relevant examples for land-use planners. If you are new to landscape ecology and would like to delve a bit deeper, I recommend reading Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process by Turner et al.