Seven papers comprise one of at least two volumes documenting a symposium at the Seventh International Congress on Ecology (no date or location cited). Geographers, land planners, and other professionals concerned with landscape cover the Central City Belt as a case study for modelling landscape changes in The Netherlands, an alternative future for the region of Camp Pendleton in California, predicting future landscapes of islands in Japan's Seto Inland Sea, a scenario approach to predicting the future of Estonian agricultural landscapes, suburbanization and landscape change in Connecticut and the repetition of the patterns in Estonia and elsewhere, a case study of assessing nature conservation scenarios in the Madrid region, and the contribution of landscape ecology to the sustainable future of post- industrial rural landscapes. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
