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With increasing public awareness of environmental issues, landscape managers and developers are being required to creatic 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 detail of designing habitats for wildlife. The authors, who have been working and teaching in the field for many years, draw on a wealth of practical experience - as well as an in-depth knowledge of the existing widely scattered literature - to provide an authoritative and accessible account of this rapidly developing subject. From coastal and freshwater ecosystems to mountains, forest, and grasslands, the book spans all of the major types of habitat to be found in the UK. Oliver Gilbert and Penny Anderson give advice on deciding when habitat creation is the correct path to follow, and then cover 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 drawn from the UK and other countries. Habitat Creation and Repair is the first comprehensive guide to habitat creation to be published for several years. It will be a key text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in ecology, landscape architecture, resource management, and environmental science.With habitat conservation, creation, and repair increasingly a priority amongst planners, developers, and policy-makers, this book will also be welcomed by professional ecologists, environmental consultants, resource managers, and landscape architects.

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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> A timely book that covers everything from ethics, theory, and principles of habitat creation to final designs and implementation of projects. A welcome perspective from the UK on the rapidly evolving field of ecological restoration. Major habitat types are looked at in-depth, with common options, problems, and solutions for each one. This thorough review ofthe literature is based on knowledge gained by the authors from many years in the field. An invaluable guide to professionals and aspiring professionals. -- Northeastern Naturalist, Issue 7/2<br>

<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<br> The authors reinforce important principl

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