Authors:
- With the increased focus on landscapes in rating systems (LEED Sustainable Sites), there is great demand for a guide that takes ecological concepts and explains to a design audience how the concepts can be applied
- Visually appealing and thoughtfully presented, the author presents important ecological concepts followed immediately by a design application of the concept
- The author is a Landscape and Gardens Project Manager with the New York Botanical Garden who has experience in both ecology and design
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles of Ecological Landscape Design
Authors: Travis Beck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-199-3
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Travis Beck 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-199-3Published: 16 February 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 280
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment, general, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Applied Ecology, Landscape Ecology