ABSTRACT

This third edition of the standard text Countryside Conservation charts and evaluates those changes which represent a fundamental revolution in the ways in which the countryside is planned and managed. It sets out the principles, policies and practice which underlie the ecology, planning and management of the new countryside, discussing ways in which countryside conservation objectives are evolving and how they can best be achieved.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Protecting and exploiting the environment

part I|83 pages

Principles: Ecological, Historical and Cultural

part II|103 pages

Policies: conservation strategies and structures

part III|124 pages

Practice: landscape restoration and management

chapter 10|23 pages

Croplands

chapter 11|27 pages

Grassland and other rangelands

chapter 12|25 pages

Woodlands

chapter 13|23 pages

Wetlands

chapter 14|20 pages

Coastlands

chapter 15|4 pages

Conclusions