Reviews
Ecological Planning should be read by all institutional and public choice economists who work toward solving problems associated with human use of the natural environment.
[Ndubisi] writes with impressive clarity and command of the diverse literatures covered... Highly recommended.
It is a thoughtful and provocative book because it places ecological thinking centre stage... An original analysis in which the multiple intellectual origins and practices of dominant approaches to ecological planning are traced and analysed with sensitivity.
The author's goals are on target, for no other book sets the ideas of landscape planning into a set of developing concepts within a historical context. There are few books on landscape planning in general and none to my knowledge that attempt both a complete overview and a comparative analysis. Ndubisi's approach is sound in every way. This book is long overdue.
Book Details
Foreword, by Frederick R. Steiner
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. ECOLOGICAL PLANNING IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 2. THE FIRST LANDSCAPE - SUITABILITY APPROACH
Chapter 3. THE SECOND
Foreword, by Frederick R. Steiner
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. ECOLOGICAL PLANNING IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 2. THE FIRST LANDSCAPE - SUITABILITY APPROACH
Chapter 3. THE SECOND LANDSCAPE-SUITABILITY APPROACH
Chapter 4. THE APPLIED-HUMAN-ECOLOGY APPROACH
Chapter 5. THE APPLIED-ECOSYSTEM APPROACH
Chapter 6. THE APPLIED-LANDSCAPE-ECOLOGY APPROACH
Chapter 7. ASSESSMENT OF LANDSCAPE VALUES AND LANDSCAPE PERCEPTION
Chapter 8. A SYNTHESIS OF APPROACHES TO ECOLOGICAL PLANNING
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index