Designing wildlife habitats / John Beardsley, editor.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
Other Authors: Beardsley, John
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2013], ©2013.
Subjects:
Habitat (Ecology) > Congresses.
Biodiversity > Congresses.
Ecosystem health > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:vi, 294 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : cultivating wildlife / John Beardsley
  • Pt. I. Frameworks
  • Edging into the wild / Harriet Ritvo
  • Wildness and wilderness in Ottoman gardens and landscape : manifestations of nature through body, architecture, and city / B. Deniz Çaliş
  • Spatial scale and the design of conservation interventions / Joshua R. Ginsberg
  • Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the design of landscapes / Shahid Naeem
  • "That's real meat" : birds, native people, and conservation in the neotropics / Shepard Krech III
  • Pt. II. Sites, scales, systems
  • Designing a wilderness for wildlife : the case of the Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa / Jane Carruthers
  • Wildlife habitat design for biodiversity conservation and conservation education : two case studies : Alice Springs Desert park and the Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary / Stuart Green
  • Orongo Station Master Plan (photo essay) / Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
  • Ecological restoration foundations to designing habitats in urban areas / Steven N. Handel
  • Biodiversity and climate change in cities / Kristina Hill
  • ARC wildlife crossing competition : "hypar-nature" (photo essay) / HNTB Engineering and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
  • The role of designers in creating wildlife habitat in the built environment / Alexander J. Felson
  • Integration across scales : landscape as infrastructure for the protection of biodiversity / Kongjian Yu.