Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability
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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Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability
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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Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability

Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability

by Robert G. Bailey
Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability

Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability

by Robert G. Bailey

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780387954295
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 08/01/2002
Edition description: 2002
Pages: 223
Product dimensions: 7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction * Nature's Geometry * Regional Scale Ecosystem Units, Ecoregions * An Ecoregional Approach to Sustaining Ecosystems * Significance to Ecosystem Management * How Land Management Agencies, Conservation Organizations, and Others Use Ecoregion Maps * Summary and Conclusions

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"Eco-Region Based Design for Sustainability is a sumptuous culmination of both scientists' and designers' work to date. It is accessible and motivating and will have its impact." (Joan Woodward, Department of Landscape Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; author, Waterstained Landscapes)

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