Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land Use Planning
<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.<p>This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of...
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<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.<p>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.<p>Chapters cover: <ul> <li>patches - size, number, and location <li>edges and boundaries <li>corridors and connectivity <li>mosaics <li>summaries of case studies from around the world </ul>
Preface1What's the Big Deal, Anyway?12The Loss of Instream Flows: A Short History of Water Use and Water Law in the West93Instream Uses of Water454How Much Water Should Be Left in Streams?955Instream Flow Protection Issues in the States1116Methods the States Use to Protect Instream Flows1377Effect of Instream Flow Protection on Other Water Uses1658Federal Authorities and Approaches for Protecting Instream Flows1779Federal Water Development Programs Affecting Instream Flows22510Federal Environmental Protection Legislation and Programs Affecting Instream Flows25511Reaching a Balance in Water Allocation297Notes307References379Index403
