BOOKS - Nature in Fragments: The Legacy of Sprawl (American Museum of Natural History...
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Nature in Fragments: The Legacy of Sprawl (American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity Conservation, Series on Biodiversity)
Author: Elizabeth A. Johnson
Year: September 14, 2005
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.9 MB
Language: English
Year: September 14, 2005
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.9 MB
Language: English
This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on biodiversity and the measures that can be taken to alleviate it. Leading biological and social scientists, conservationists, and land-use professionals examine how sprawl affects species and alters natural communities, ecosystems, and natural processes. The contributors integrate biodiversity issues, concerns, and needs into the growing number of anti-sprawl initiatives, including the and "smart growth and " and and "new urbanist and " movements.