Envisioning Future Canadian Landscapes

Download or read book Envisioning Future Canadian Landscapes written by Wildlife Habitat Canada and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers presented in this collection are intended to demonstrate the need for a landscape approach to resource management and planning, and to introduce the concept of envisioning, through different visualisation techniques. The goal of the collection is to explore possible connections between sustainable resource management, landscape approaches to conservation, and the concept and techniques of envisioning futures. Topics of the papers include landscape planning and management, landscape ecology, landscape impact analysis, guided imagery and local planning, conservation of wildlife habitat, forest management, prairie agriculture, wetlands habitat conservation, and case studies on Canadian landscapes in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Alberta. The collection concludes with a discussion of challenges involved in the application of a landscape approach in Canada.