Richard T. T. Forman is Research Professor in Landscape Ecology at Harvard University, Massachusetts, where he teaches Urban and Town Ecology. Often considered a 'father' of Landscape Ecology and Road Ecology, he helped spearhead Urban Ecology, and has received honours, awards, medals and honorary doctorates from universities across the world. His books include Landscape Ecology (1986), award-winning Land Mosaics (Cambridge, 1995), Urban Regions (Cambridge, 2008) and award-finalist Urban Ecology (Cambridge, 2014). He received an award for excellence in teaching, and has served for many years on boards for town planning and land-protection non-profit organizations.
'This book provides valuable insights, through many and varied examples, to show the way.' A. M. Mannion, The Biologist '… readily accessible for geographers, conservationists, and land planners.' Ezequiel González, Conservation Biology 'The volume is attentive to ecological dimensions, microhabitats, and scales for flora … Researchers and environmental planners investigating town-based ecological dynamics will find the extensive conceptual review valuable for designing projects and writing grant proposals.' Susan Power Bratton, The Quarterly Review of Biology