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English ironmaster, died 1794
Richard Forman
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English ironmaster, died 1794
A.K.A.
Richard (I) Forman
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Father:
Thomas Forman
Siblings:
Anthony Forman
Henry Forman
Children:
Richard Forman
William Forman
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Richard Townsend Turner Forman is a landscape ecologist. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Design and Harvard College in the Harvard University. Forman has been called the "father" of landscape ecology for his work linking ecological science with spatial patterns describing how people and nature interweave on land.
He is the author of a widely held textbook for landscape ecology, "Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions." According to WorldCat, the book is held in 564 libraries
Publications
- Forman, Richard T. T. and Michel Godron 1986. Landscape Ecology. John Wiley and Sons (New York) ISBN 0471870374
- Forman, Richard T. T. 1995. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521479806
- Forman, Richard T. T. et al. 2003. Road Ecology: Science and Solutions. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003. ISBN 9781559639330
- Forman, Richard T. T., ed. 1979. Pine Barrens: Ecosystem and Landscape. New York: Academic Press, ISBN 9780122634505 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 562 libraries
- Forman, R. T. T. 2008. Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York. 408 pp .
- Forman, R. T.T. 2014. Urban Ecology: Science of Cities. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York. 462 pp. [Finalist, Society of Biology 2014 Book Award; Chinese edition in preparation].
- Forman, R. T. T. 2015. Launching landscape ecology in America and learning from Europe. In History of Landscape Ecology in the United States. G.W. Barrett, T.L. Barrett and J. Wu, eds. New York: Springer. Pages 13–30.
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