In my office I am encased in bookshelves which hold an accumulation of literature on ecology that represents the papers and books over the last 50 years. My students enjoy rummaging through this collection beshy; cause it contains a record of the history of ecology and is full of surshy; prises. Some of the most recent material pertains to landscape ecology; a subject that literally emerged fully active at the Veldhoven Internashy; tional Congress organized by the landscape ecologists of The Nethershy; lands in 1981. The subject has developed quickly. It has one or more journals; which publish short works. It has a series of text books. And; it has just begun a series on monographs. One of the textbooks in landshy; scape ecology is titled Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology and was written by the Italian ecologist Almo Farina in 1998. My stushy; dents like this text especially well because it is direct; to the point and comprehensive. "Farina" is on loan much of the time. In the present volume Almo Farina again addresses the subject of Landscape Ecology but from a different perspective than he took in his textbook. Landscape in Action focuses on the application of the princishy; ples and concepts to problem solving. The two books make a pair; with the first technical and conceptual and the second applied to problems of land and water at large scale.
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