The urgent need for a sustainable environment has resulted in the increased recognition of the field of landscape ecology amongst policy makers working in the area of nature conservation, restoration and territorial planning. Nonetheless, the question of what is precisely meant by the term landscape ecology'isstill unresolved. No doubt, a proper foundation of the discipline must first be cemented. This book develops such a foundation. In doing so it provides allthe diverse applications of the discipline with a solid framework and proposes an effective diagnostic methodology to investigate the ecological state and the pathologies of the landscape. INDICE: Foreword by Richard T.T. Forman; Preface; Part I Principles of Landscape Ecology: The Landscape as a Specific Biological Entity; Some Concepts on a General Bio-System Theory; Landscape Structure; Landscape Dynamics; Landscape Transformations; Theoretical Influence of Landscape Ecology; Part II Landscape Methodologies and Applications: Landscape Analysis; Evaluation of the Components of the Landscape; Diagnosis of the State of the Landscape; Landscape Ecology and Sustainability; Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology; Landscape Ecology and Environmental Design; Landscape Ecology and Territorial Planning; Case Studies of Landscape Ecology Applications (Italia: Trentino, Friuli, Lombardy, Calabria; Africa: Burkina-Faso; India; Japan; USA: Rocky Mountains; Mediterranean, Subalpine and Rhine Landscape Systems); References; Glossary; Index.
- ISBN: 978-3-642-07663-3
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés