This volume applies ecological principles and guidelines to understand past and
current land use and land management; and more importantly, endeavors to promote
more ecologically sound approaches to future land use and management decisions.
The volume incorporates case studies from a wide variety of disciplines and
perspectives. The case studies explore past and current land use decisions, on
both public and private lands, and include practical approaches and tools for
land-use decision-making. Perhaps the most important feature of the book is the
linking of ecological theory and principle with applied land use decision-making
- the theoretical and empirical are joined through concrete case studies of
actual land use