Dramstad Wenche, Olson James, Forman Richard. Landscape ecology principles in landscape architecture and land-use planning

Harvard University, Island Press, 1996. — 80 p.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 worldВ книге английских парковых дизайнеров приведены практические советы по ландшафтной архитектуре с учетом экологических принципов. Наряду с основными принципами проектирования ландшафта приведены практические приложения и примеры.