Changing Landscapes: An Ecological Perspective

Book Overview

Landscape Ecology is an emerging science of gaining momentum over the past few decades in the scientific as well as in the planning-management worlds. Although the field is rooted in biology and geography, the approaches to understanding the ecology of a landscape are highly divers. This hybrid vigor provides power to the field. One can no longer view a local ecosystem or land use in isolation from global areas and time frames. The surrounding landscape mosaic and the flows and movements in a landscape must be considered, especially the linkage between humans requiring resources provided by nature, the constraints on their use as well as the responding landscape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461279593
• ISBN13: 9781461279594
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"