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About the book >.>.> There is need nationally and internationally for prudent commitment to both sustained economic development as well as responsible environmental and re- source protection. In our view these are mutually dependent not mutually exclusive. As evidenced in many developing areas of the world environmental protection and resource conservation receive low priority under struggling econo- mics. But sustained economic development is dependent upon maintenance of clean air and water unpolluted soil and the many associated natural resources. From this perspective our primary objectives in preparing the present report are twofold: (1) to review the knowledge base regarding wildlife habitat reserves and corridors in urban and urbanizing areas and (2) to provide some guidelines and approaches to ecological landscape planning and wildlife conservation in such areas that will help to maintain multiple environmental and societal benefits. We hope the report will be useful to biologists planners and landscape architects of federal state county and municipal agencies and to these professionals employed in the private sector to developers; to college and university educators and their students; and to other groups and individuals interested in wildlife conservation in urban and urbanizing areas. The report deals primarily with planning considerations before development rather than habitat management aspects after development. Chapter 1 highlights public interest in wildlife in metropolitan areas and presents a brief overview of the multiple benefits derived from considering wildlife and associated natural re- sources in the development process. In Chapter 2 we outline some of the known effects of urbanization on wildlife and wildlife habitat as background for a more detailed review of the scientific literature dealing with habitat reserves and corridors in Chapter 3. Chapter 3 encompasses an extensive review of the empirical evidence relating to wildlife reserves and corridors with emphasis on urban areas but also including nonurban areas in recognition that research dealing with the latter may well have considerable application to the urban environment. The practitioner understanda bly needs numbers: How large must the reserve be? How wide must buffer zones be? And how wide must connecung corridors be? Answers to these and related questions are dependent upon many factors and we review the limited research concerned with such issues noting that present knowledge only provides partial answers. In addition we include a section on research needs in hope that such a discussion will help to stimulate further much-needed work in this important area. The major focus of Chapter 4 is on how the knowledge base reviewed in Chapter 3 can be applied to the development of conservation schemes for the urban and urbanizing environment resulting in multiple societal benefits. Guidelines to ecological landscape planning and wildlife conservation are provided along with specific recommendations.