Habitat Creation and Repair [Hardcover]

Oliver L. Gilbert (Author), Penny Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 16, 1998

Responding to concerns about the environment, landscape managers and developers are using extensive naturalistic plantings to restore habitats degraded by building, development, or overuse. This book is the definitive guide to habitat creation and repair; it includes discussions of ethics, theory, and general principles, along with the practical details 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 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 contains specific chapters on most of the major habitat types. The authors 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. A useful resource for professionals, this volume is ideal as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in ecology, landscape architecture, resource management, and environmental science.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"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

About the Author

Oliver Gilbert, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield. Penny Anderson, Penny Anderson Associates.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 16, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198549679
• ISBN-13: 978-0198549673
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,475,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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