Book Details
Orange Code:93293
Paperback:288 pages
Publications:
Categories:
Sections:
1. Right Plant, Right Place: Biogeography and Plant Selection2. Beyond Massing: Working with Plant Populations and Communities3. The Struggle for Coexistence: On Competition and Assembling Tight Communities4. Maintaining the World as We Know It: Biodiversity for High-Functioning Landscapes5. The Stuff of Life: Promoting Living Soils and Healthy Waters6. The Birds and the Bees: Integrating Other Organisms
Description:
|
Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes—from public parks to backyards—to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. With Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the science of ecology into design practice.
This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers topics from biogeography and plant selection to global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape.
For constructed landscapes to perform as we need them to, we must get their underlying ecology right. Principles of Ecological Landscape Design provides the tools to do just that.
|
