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Landscape Ecology Principles in Wenche E. Dramstad, James D. Olson, and Richard T.T. Forman
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The thin mosaic, the tissue of the planet, is in upheaval. An urgent
need exists for new tools and new language to understand how to live
without
losing nature. The solutions will be at the landscape scale - working
with the larger pattern, understanding how it works, and designing in
harmony
with the structure of the natural system that sustains us all.
Each landscape has its own signature. This book will give you new
eyes, and a means to communicate and collaborate with the many ecologists
and
landscape architects who are reaching out to work together and find
cross-disciplinary solutions to land-use challenges. Places are like
large
"organisms", the products of natural forms and processes at
work.
Places are uniquely different and each possesses an intrinsic potential
for change. This book will also help landscape architects and planners
to work
with communities that are inventing and formulating the new civics of
sustainability.
What encourages me most about this book is how its principles are
both simple and holistic in the way they tie together land, water, wildlife,
and
people. As designers and planners we must weave together this mosaic
of patches and corridor networks, like a quilt held together with threads,
to
hold the landscape from falling apart. Understanding this mosaic will
be our greatest challenge.
We need more succinct books like this one, with its simple tools and
language, to couple the usually opposing forces of government regulations,
economic self-interest, and the land ethic to run
parallel.
Grant Jones, FASLA
Jones & Jones
Seattle, Washington
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOUNDATIONS
Time Changes
Objectives
Development of landscape ecology
Landscape ecology today
PART ONE: PRINCIPLES
Patches
Patch size: Large or small?
Patch number: How many?
Patch location: Where?
Edges and boundaries
Edge structure
Boundaries: Straight or convoluted?
Shapes of patches: Round or convoluted?
Corridors and Connectivity
Corridors for species movement
Stepping stones
Road and windbreak barriers
Stream and river corridors
Mosaics
Networks
Fragmentation and pattern
Scale: Fine or coarse?
PART TWO: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
Schematic Applications
Case studies in brief
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
Publication Title
Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use
Planning
Year Published
1996, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Editors/Authors
Wenche E. Dramstad, James D. Olson, and Richard T.T. Forman
Format
70 pages, multiple black and white and color images
In the Frances Loeb Library:
General Collection: QH541.15.L35 D73x
Special Collections: Rare QH541.15.L35 D73x