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OverviewWith increasing public awareness of environmental issues, landscape managers and developers are being required to create 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 details of designing habitats for wildlife. With chapters spanning all the major types of habitat to be found in the UK, the book gives advice on deciding when habitat creation is the correct path to follow, and then covers 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: O.L. Gilbert , Penny AndersonPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9780198549673ISBN 10: 0198549679 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 01 June 1998 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 ContentsReviewsThis potentially useful book describes how to work with soils, seeds, plants, animals, existing vegetation, machinery, and people so that conservation goals are satisfied. It does not advocate an end to human impacts, but it provides a candid treatment of how derelict lands can be mended with limited time, money, and materials. Although [this book] draws primarily on examples from the United Kingdom, ecologists, environmental consultants, wildlife biologists, landscape architects, and others based in the United States should add this book to their libraries for two reasons. First, it presents some new and interesting twists on landscape planning and design. . . . Second, it frames a philosophy of resource management that is distinct from the prevailing conservation ethic in the United States. In short, US readers will get some fresh perspectives that could potentially work their way into the management of anthropic systems. --BioScience The authors reinforce important principles and provide good examples of primarily terrestrial site-specific approaches for changing habitat, and pull together recent, and often not widely circulated, literature primarily from the U.K. These contributions will be welcome to practitioners and promoters of habitat creation and conservation. - The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2000 This potentially useful book describes how to work with soils, seeds, plants, animals, existing vegetation, machinery, and people so that conservation goals are satisfied. It does not advocate an end to human impacts, but it provides a candid treatment of how derelict lands can be mended with limited time, money, and materials. Although [this book] draws primarily on examples from the United Kingdom, ecologists, environmental consultants, wildlife biologists, landscape architects, and others based in the United States should add this book to their libraries for two reasons. First, it presents some new and interesting twists on landscape planning and design. . . . Second, it frames a philosophy of resource management that is distinct from the prevailing conservation ethic in the United States. In short, US readers will get some fresh perspectives that could potentially work their way into the management of anthropic systems. --BioScience<br> The authors reinforce important principles and provide good examples of primarily terrestrial site-specific approaches for changing habitat, and pull together recent, and often not widely circulated, literature primarily from the U.K. These contributions will be welcome to practitioners and promoters of habitat creation and conservation. - The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2000<br> """This potentially useful book describes how to work with soils, seeds, plants, animals, existing vegetation, machinery, and people so that conservation goals are satisfied. It does not advocate an end to human impacts, but it provides a candid treatment of how derelict lands can be mended with limited time, money, and materials. Although [this book] draws primarily on examples from the United Kingdom, ecologists, environmental consultants, wildlife biologists, landscape architects, and others based in the United States should add this book to their libraries for two reasons. First, it presents some new and interesting twists on landscape planning and design. . . . Second, it frames a philosophy of resource management that is distinct from the prevailing conservation ethic in the United States. In short, US readers will get some fresh perspectives that could potentially work their way into the management of anthropic systems.""--BioScience ""The authors reinforce important principles and provide good examples of primarily terrestrial site-specific approaches for changing habitat, and pull together recent, and often not widely circulated, literature primarily from the U.K. These contributions will be welcome to practitioners and promoters of habitat creation and conservation."" - The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2000" Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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