This richly illustrated volume completes Robert G. Bailey's celebrated
study of ecoregions, begun in the landmark Ecosystem Geography (1996)
and further articulated in Ecoregions (1998). In this third
installment, the author expands his system for defining large-scale
ecological zones to encompass principles of land management, regional
planning, and design. In an engaging, nontechnical discussion, he
shows how larger patterns and processes that characterize a
region--its climate, topography, soils, vegetation, fauna, and human
culture--provide essential keys to the sustainability of ecosystems.
Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability will be welcomed by land and
resource managers, landscape architects and urban planners,
ecologists, students, and anyone interested in ecology-based design.
"Bob Bailey [is] the man behind the ecosystem mapping of the world."
-Lingua Franca Reviews of Ecoregions: "The book provides easy access
to the geographic distribution, characteristics, and processes
operating behind every major ecosystem in the world." -Geoscience
Canada "Ecoregions offers an invaluable source of description,
interpretation and analysis of global patterns of ecosystem
distribution and successfully provides the reader with a means of
making sense of these patterns." -Geography Robert G. Bailey is a
geographer with the United States Forest Service in Fort Collins,
Colorado. Formerly the leader of the agency's Ecosystem Management
Analysis Center, he is currently in charge of ecoregion studies at the
Inventory and Monitoring Institute.
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ISBN
9780387225975
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
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Springer
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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