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Landscape ecology and countryside planning: Vision, theory and practice
AbstractLandscape planners are beginning to recognise the need for a strategic response to countryside change, but lack an appropriate theoretical framework. Landscape ecology is proposed as a basis for planning at a variety of scales. A number of key concerns of landscape ecology are identified, which help to explain the functioning of present and future ecosystems. These centre upon population dynamics, characteristics of habitat patches, movements between patches, visual cohesion and hydrological structures. Despite the complex relationships between biophysical and socio-economic systems, some broad principles are emerging which can be used to underpin landscape plans. Several implementational mechanisms are available which might help to convert these plans into reality. A set of strategic landscape planning principles is proposed, as a basis for further discussion.
Landscape ecology and countryside planning: Vision, theory and practice
AbstractLandscape planners are beginning to recognise the need for a strategic response to countryside change, but lack an appropriate theoretical framework. Landscape ecology is proposed as a basis for planning at a variety of scales. A number of key concerns of landscape ecology are identified, which help to explain the functioning of present and future ecosystems. These centre upon population dynamics, characteristics of habitat patches, movements between patches, visual cohesion and hydrological structures. Despite the complex relationships between biophysical and socio-economic systems, some broad principles are emerging which can be used to underpin landscape plans. Several implementational mechanisms are available which might help to convert these plans into reality. A set of strategic landscape planning principles is proposed, as a basis for further discussion.
Landscape ecology and countryside planning: Vision, theory and practice
Selman, Paul (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 9 ; 1-21
1993-01-01
21 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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