Landscape Ecology Theory and Application

About this book

This revised edition of the first English-language monograph on the interdisciplinary science of landscape ecology provides a current overview of this rapidly growing subject. Landscape Ecology: Theory and Application provides a unified conceptual and methodological framework for a field which is both local and global in its implications, and places human activities into context in the ecosystem. Landscape Ecology: Theory and Application is ideally suited for use as a text in a wide range of courses on ecology-based land and resource planning, environmental management, natural resources policy, international development, regional planning, landscape geography and human ecology. It will also be of interest to the professional researcher, educator and decision-maker who deals with man's relationship to his natural and cultural environment.

Contents

The Evolution of Landscape Ecology * Conceptual and Theoretical Basis of Landscape Ecology as a Human Ecosystem Science * Some Major Contributions of Landscape Ecology: Examples of Tools, Methods, and Applications * Dynamic Conservation Management of Mediterranean Landscapes

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