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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Forster Ndubisi (Washington State University) , Frederick SteinerPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9780801868016ISBN 10: 0801868017 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 26 July 2002 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents: Foreword, by Frederick R. Steiner Acknowledgments Introduction 1 ECOLOGICAL PLANNING IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2 THE FIRST LANDSCAPE - SUITABILITY APPROACH 3 THE SECOND LANDSCAPE-SUITABILITY APPROACH 4 THE APPLIED-HUMAN-ECOLOGY APPROACH 5 THE APPLIED-ECOSYSTEM APPROACH 6 THE APPLIED-LANDSCAPE-ECOLOGY APPROACH 7 ASSESSMENT OF LANDSCAPE VALUES AND LANDSCAPE PERCEPTION 8 A SYNTHESIS OF APPROACHES TO ECOLOGICAL PLANNING EPILOGUE NOTES REFERENCES INDEXReviewsEcological Planning should be read by all institutional and public choice economists who work toward solving problems associated with human use of the natural environment. -- Gerald F. Vaughn Journal of Economic Issues [Ndubisi] writes with impressive clarity and command of the diverse literatures covered... Highly recommended. Choice It is a thoughtful and provocative book because it places ecological thinking centre stage... An original analysis in which the multiple intellectual origins and practices of dominant approaches to ecological planning are traced and analysed with sensitivity. -- Carolyn Harrison Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design <p> It is a thoughtful and provocative book because it places ecological thinking centre stage... An original analysis in which the multiple intellectual origins and practices of dominant approaches to ecological planning are traced and analysed with sensitivity. -- Carolyn Harrison, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design <p>It is a thoughtful and provocative book because it places ecological thinking centre stage... An original analysis in which the multiple intellectual origins and practices of dominant approaches to ecological planning are traced and analysed with sensitivity.--Carolyn Harrison Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design Author InformationForster Ndubisi is a professor and director of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at Washington State University, Spokane. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |