Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need
to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and
planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that
development."Ecology and Design" addresses that shortcoming by
articulating priorities and approaches for incorporating ecological
principles in the teaching of landscape design and planning. The
book explains why landscape architecture and design and planning
faculty should include ecology as a standard part of their courses
and curricula, provides insights on how that can be done, and
offers models from successful programs. The book: examines the need
for change in the education and practice of landscape architecture
and in the physical planning and design professions as a whole asks
what designers and physical planners need to know about ecology and
what applied ecologists can learn from design and planning develops
conceptual frameworks needed to realize an ecologically based
approach to design and planning offers recommendations for the
integration of ecology within a landscape architecture curriculum,
as an example for other design fields such as civil engineering and
architecture considers the implications for professional practice
explores innovative approaches to collaboration among designers and
ecologistsIn addition to the editors, contributors include Carolyn
Adams, Jack Ahern, Richard T. T. Forman, Michael Hough, James Karr,
Joan Iverson Nassauer, David Orr, Kathy Poole, H. Ronald Pulliam,
Anne Whiston Spirn, Sandra Steingraber, Carl Steinitz, Ken
Tamminga, and William Wenk. "Ecology and Design" represents an
important guidepost and source of ideas for faculty, students,
andprofessionals in landscape architecture, urban design, planning
and architecture, landscape ecology, conservation biology and
restoration ecology, civil and environmental engineering, and
related fields.
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