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.