Landscape Sustainability: Contribution of Mucajaí-RR (Brazil) Region

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ana Sibelônia Saldanha Veras ◽  
Diogo Guedes Vidal ◽  
Nelson Azevedo Barros ◽  
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Sustainability

Asbestos rehabilitation project as a model of landscape sustainability

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Mining Area ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Soil Protection ◽  
Rehabilitation Management ◽  
Landscape Sustainability ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The World

Greece was one of the biggest producers of asbestos in the world as well as a consumer. It took advantage of the asbestos rich Zidani mine, in the region of Western Macedonia in Greece. However, due to serious health problems caused by inhaling asbestos, it was banned in 1979 and the mine closed in March 2000. Rehabilitation management of the abandoned asbestos mining area, the depositions in the open - pit mining area and the tailings remnants was necessary in order to avoid health and environmental problems in the wider area The detailed soil protection and rehabilitation project of the degraded mining area was implemented taking all necessary and appropriate safety and health measures according to the requirements of the relevant E.U and National legislation, so that accidents would be prevented. Results show that the rehabilitation, soil protection and enhancement of the area help the ecosystems to be sustainable, ecologically and socially acceptable

Sustainable landscapes and landscape sustainability: A tale of two concepts

2019 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 274-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing-Bing Zhou ◽  
Jianguo Wu ◽  
John M. Anderies
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Landscapes

scholarly journals The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 2601-2612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maraja Riechers ◽  
Ágnes Balázsi ◽  
Lydia Betz ◽  
Tolera S. Jiren ◽  
Joern Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Landscape Sustainability ◽  
Rural Landscapes ◽  
Relational Values ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Landscape Sustainability Science

Abstract Context The global trend of landscape simplification for industrial agriculture is known to cause losses in biodiversity and ecosystem service diversity. Despite these problems being widely known, status quo trajectories driven by global economic growth and changing diets continue to lead to further landscape simplification. Objectives In this perspective article, we argue that landscape simplification has negative consequences for a range of relational values, affecting the social-ecological relationships between people and nature, as well as the social relationships among people. A focus on relational values has been proposed to overcome the divide between intrinsic and instrumental values that people gain from nature. Results We use a landscape sustainability science framing to examine the interconnections between ecological and social changes taking place in rural landscapes. We propose that increasingly rapid and extreme landscape simplification erodes human-nature connectedness, social relations, and the sense of agency of inhabitants—potentially to the point of severe erosion of relational values in extreme cases. We illustrate these hypothesized changes through four case studies from across the globe. Leaving the links between ecological, social-ecological and social dimensions of landscape change unattended could exacerbate disconnection from nature. Conclusion A relational values perspective can shed new light on managing and restoring landscapes. Landscape sustainability science is ideally placed as an integrative space that can connect relevant insights from landscape ecology and work on relational values. We see local agency as a likely key ingredient to landscape sustainability that should be actively fostered in conservation and restoration projects.

scholarly journals Rapid appraisal using landscape sustainability indicators for Yaqui Valley, Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 100029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Eichler ◽  
Keith L. Kline ◽  
Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio ◽  
Santiago Lopez-Ridaura ◽  
Virginia H. Dale
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Landscape Sustainability ◽  
Yaqui Valley ◽  
Rapid Appraisal

Modeling landscape sustainability in the oil producing Niger delta area of Nigeria

Energy Policy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 110893
Author(s):  
Christian N. Madu ◽  
Chu-hua Kuei
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Landscape Sustainability ◽  
Delta Area

scholarly journals Landscape Sustainability Evaluation of Ecologically Fragile Areas Based on Boltzmann Entropy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingyi Xu ◽  
Xiaoying Liang ◽  
Hai Chen
Keyword(s):  
Configurational Entropy ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Quantitative Relationship ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Shaanxi Province ◽  
Landscape Sustainability ◽  
Boltzmann Entropy ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Elevation Model ◽  
Evaluation Matrix

From the perspective of landscape, it is important to evaluate the landscape sustainability of ecologically fragile areas and explore temporal and spatial evolution laws to promote their sustainable development. Presently, most studies on the analysis of landscape Boltzmann entropy (also called configurational entropy) are based on a single landscape, and most of these studies are theoretical discussions. However, there are few case studies on landscape ecology. The main objectives of this paper are to explore a quantitative relationship between Boltzmann entropy and landscape sustainability, to propose a method for evaluating landscape sustainability based on Boltzmann entropy, and to evaluate the sustainability of diverse landscapes in Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, China. This article uses digital elevation model (DEM) data with a spatial resolution of 30 m in Mizhi County. The remote sensing data on Mizhi County from 2000 were obtained by the Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM) + sensor, and the high-resolution image of Mizhi County from 2015 was obtained by the Gaofen-1 satellite. In this article, the subbasins are taken as the evaluation unit, and the Boltzmann entropy of Mizhi County is calculated based on the experts’ scoring of landscape sustainability in the study area. Through the analysis of landscape sustainability results from 216 subbasins in Mizhi County in 2000 and 2015, the following conclusions are drawn: (1) the evaluation matrix proposed in this paper is effective, and the Boltzmann entropy obtained by this method can directly reflect the level of landscape sustainability; (2) during the research period, the landscape sustainability of Mizhi County showed a good trend overall, especially the three townships of Taozhen, Shadian, and Shigou, which were significantly improved, and these findings were consistent with the field investigation; (3) on the spatial level, the landscape sustainability of mid-eastern Mizhi County is relatively poor compared to that in other regions, but the sustainability is also slowly increasing.

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