"A Nation of Beggars"? - Couverture souple

Gilbert, Oliver L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198549660 ISBN 13 : 9780198549666

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Synopsis

Responding to concerns about the environment, landscape managers and developers are using extensive naturalistic plantings to restore habitats degraded by building, development, or overuse. This book is the definitive guide to habitat creation and repair; it includes discussions of ethics, theory, and general principles, along with the practical details of designing habitats for wildlife. The authors, who have been working and teaching in the field for many years, draw on a wealth of practical experience-as well as an in-depth knowledge of the widely scattered literature-to provide an authoritative and accessible account of this rapidly developing subject. From coastal and freshwater ecosystems to mountains, forest, and grasslands, the book contains specific chapters on most of the major habitat types. The authors give advice on deciding when habitat creation is the correct path to follow, and then cover all steps from site survey through to the final design and actual realization of the scheme. A useful resource for professionals, this volume is ideal as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in ecology, landscape architecture, resource management, and environmental science.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

With increasing public awareness of environmental issues, landscape managers and developers are being required to creatic substantial areas of naturalistic planting, particularly in urban areas, and to restore habitats degraded by building, development, or overuse. This book provides the definitive guide to habitat creation and repair, ranging from ethics, theory, and principles to the practical detail of designing habitats for wildlife. The authors, who have been working and teaching in the field for many years, draw on a wealth of practical experience - as well as an in-depth knowledge of the existing widely scattered literature - to provide an authoritative and accessible account of this rapidly developing subject. From coastal and freshwater ecosystems to mountains, forest, and grasslands, the book spans all of the major types of habitat to be found in the UK. Oliver Gilbert and Penny Anderson give advice on deciding when habitat creation is the correct path to follow, and then cover all steps from site survey through to the final design and actual realization of the scheme. For each habitat, the authors describe the options, problems, and solutions most likely to be encountered, and give examples of good and bad habitat creation in practice drawn from the UK and other countries. Habitat Creation and Repair is the first comprehensive guide to habitat creation to be published for several years. It will be a key text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in ecology, landscape architecture, resource management, and environmental science.With habitat conservation, creation, and repair increasingly a priority amongst planners, developers, and policy-makers, this book will also be welcomed by professional ecologists, environmental consultants, resource managers, and landscape architects.

Revue de presse

'...This timely book provides an excellent treatment...It is useful to have such a fine body of work drawn together in one place for reference. This is a sound scientific work and will be of immense use as a compendium of information on the rather uncertain art of science of habitat creation.' (John Feltwell, Biologist 1999, 46 (3))

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198549660
• ISBN 13: 9780198549666
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 298
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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