Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: Landscape Ecology: A Spatial and Human-Oriented Ecology -- 1.1: Foundations of Landscape Ecology -- 1.2: A Landscape Perspective -- 1.3: Main Characteristics of Landscape Ecology -- 1.4: Quantifying Landscape Structure -- Ch. 2: Planning the Landscape: A Spatial Ecological Approach -- 2.1: Planning and Landscape Ecology -- 2.2: Planning Landscape Resources -- 2.3: A Method of Planning for Sustainability -- 2.4: Applying Landscape Metrics in Planning -- Ch. 3: The Selected Set of Landscape Metrics -- 3.1: Patch Richness -- 3.2: Class Area Proportion (CAP) -- 3.3: Patch Number (PN) and Patch Density (PD) -- 3.4: Mean Patch Size (Area MN, Area AM) -- 3.5: Shape (SHAPE) -- 3.6: Radius of Gyration (GYRATE) -- 3.7: Contagion (CONTAG) -- 3.8: Edge Contrast (ECON) -- 3.9: Euclidean Nearest Neighbor Distance (ENN) -- 3.10: Proximity (PROX) -- Ch. 4: Applications of Landscape Metrics in Planning and Management -- 4.1: Introduction -- 4.2: The Study Area -- 4.3: Data and Methods -- 4.4: Applications of Landscape Metrics -- Ch. 5: Recommendations on the Use of Landscape Metrics to Support the Planning of Sustainable Landscapes -- Glossary -- References -- Author Bios -- Index.