Guide to Habitat Creation 2017 [Paperback]

Back in the 1980s nature conservation was regarded as largely a rural issue concerned with the preservation of a dwindling series of unspoiled sections of landscape and their wildlife. In parallel, the focus of urban nature conservation was on creation or restoration of damaged parts of the environment. Now, well into the millennium the experience of urban habitat conservation has been followed throughout the UK, which in turn has led to green infrastructure becoming an important part of urban planning and people's well-being, and a sustainable managed landscape is understood to be valuable to the economy. Anyone can use this handy pocketbook, and it will appeal to wildlife gardeners and designers, woodsmen, farmers and land managers, park-keepers and groundsmen, school teachers, parish and local authority planners end environmental officers.Professor Chris Baines was trained as an horticulturist and landscape architect, and has been a champion of habitat creation and nature conservation for more than forty years. In the 1980s he taught landscape design and management to postgraduate students and became well known to the public through environmental programmes on TV and radio, and through his writing. He created the first wildlife garden at the Chelsea Flower Show as long ago as 1985. He has been a long standing Vice President of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts and his work honoured by the RSPB and the British Naturalists Association. He now concentrates on advising central and local government and corporate clients in utility, mineral and development industries.