The Role of Anthropogenic Landforms in Sustainable Landscape Management

Anthropogenic landforms are attractive landscape structures. They are linked to the cultural elements of the landscape and they also support biodiversity on the landscape level. Concerning their position within heritage concepts, anthropogenic landforms can be seen as a bridge between natural and cultural heritages. This paper is focused on the relevance of anthropogenic landforms to landscape management and planning. The study is based on the concept of geomorphosites, which can be applied within sustainable management and the conservation of geomorphological heritage. The case study was applied in the urban area of Brno (Czech Republic). The results of the study indicated the importance of anthropogenic landforms for urban landscape conservation and sustainable tourism development. The assessment of landforms in the study area enabled to establish a set of recommendations for the sustainable management of anthropogenic landforms in Brno. This study suggested the assessment of anthropogenic landforms as a support tool for sustainable landscape management in urban areas.

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Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review

Land ◽

10.3390/land9120525 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (12) ◽

pp. 525

Author(s):

Renato Monteiro ◽

José C. Ferreira ◽

Paula Antunes

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Green Infrastructure ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Landscape Management ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Infrastructure Planning ◽

Wide Range ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Sustainable Landscape Management ◽

Sustainable Landscape

Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, green infrastructure, as a planning tool, contributes to social and economic benefits, leading to the achievement of sustainable, resilient, inclusive and competitive urban areas. Despite recent developments, there is still no consensus among researchers and practitioners regarding the concept of green infrastructure as well as its implementation approaches, which makes it often difficult for urban planners and other professionals in the field to develop a robust green infrastructure in some parts of the world. To address this issue, an integrative literature review was conducted to identify which green infrastructure planning principles should be acknowledged in spatial planning practices to promote sustainability and resilience. As a result of this literature review, the most common eight green infrastructure planning principles were selected—connectivity, multifunctionality, applicability, integration, diversity, multiscale, governance, and continuity. These principles intend to promote and simplify the development and use of green infrastructure by different academic and implementation organizations and provide a more defined model for sustainable landscape management in order to help practitioners and decision makers during the conceptualization and planning of green infrastructure.

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Sustainable landscape management in the Vilhelmina Model Forest, Sweden

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc2012-056 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 88 (03) ◽

pp. 291-297 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Johan Svensson ◽

Per Sandström ◽

Camilla Sandström ◽

Leif Jougda ◽

Karin Baer

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Management ◽

Spatial Planning ◽

Forest Ecosystems ◽

Landscape Planning ◽

Landscape Management ◽

Economic Data ◽

Flexible Planning ◽

Sustainable Landscape Management ◽

Sustainable Landscape

The aim of this paper is to outline current foundations for sustainable landscape management in the Vilhelmina Model Forest, northwest Sweden. A case study revealed that the remaining patches of undisturbed or less disturbed boreal forest ecosystems comprise multiple values and, thus, constitute the basis for landscape planning. By identifying these patches, it is also possible to construct a spatial planning infrastructure for implementing sustainable management and land use. A more comprehensive toolbox needs to be developed, however, including monitoring and inventory schemes for relevant biophysical and socio-economic data, better temporal resolution for cause and effect analyses, and functioning scale-flexible planning and governance instruments.

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Sustainable Landscape Management and Planning

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12062354 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 2354

Author(s):

Ivo Machar

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Global Change ◽

Water Resource Management ◽

Landscape Planning ◽

Landscape Management ◽

Landscape Scale ◽

Landscape Conservation ◽

Natural Habitats ◽

Sustainable Landscape Management ◽

Sustainable Landscape

Dynamic changes of landscape structure affect the abundance and distribution of organisms. Currently, changing land-use is one of the major forces altering ecosystem services in landscapes globally. Human activities are transforming land at a faster rate and greater extent than at any time in history. This is a perspective challenge for research in the field of emerging sustainability science. The human conversion of natural habitats and land use change is not only a local/regional phenomenon but can be considered as one of important global change drivers. Some of the impacts of global change on biodiversity can be studied only at the landscape scale, such as the climate change-induced shift of vegetation zones. A landscape perspective fosters a multi-scale approach to sustainable landscape management and landscape planning. Additionally, a landscape scale is very useful for the innovative application of the common management paradigm to multiple uses in agriculture, forestry and water resource management. The need for sustainable landscape management and planning is now obvious. Landscape conservation seems to be a new paradigm for the conservation of biodiversity. This Special Issue (SI) of the Sustainability journal is focused on building a bridge between scientific theory and the practice of landscape management and planning based on the application of sustainability as a key conceptual framework. Papers dealing with various theoretical studies and case studies of the best practice for sustainable landscape management and planning across diverse landscapes around the world are included.

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Towards Sustainable Urban Landscape Management: Floridians’ Perceptions of Residential Landscapes and Their Maintenance Requirements

EDIS ◽

10.32473/edis-fe1090-2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (2) ◽

pp. 5

Author(s):

Hayk Khachatryan ◽

Alicia Rihn ◽

Xumin Zhang ◽

Michael Dukes

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Landscape Management ◽

Resource Economics ◽

Landscape Conservation ◽

Fact Sheet ◽

Residential Landscape ◽

Sustainable Landscaping ◽

Economics Department ◽

Maintenance Requirements ◽

Sustainable Landscape

This 5-page fact sheet written by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn, Xumin Zhang, and Michael Dukes and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department is the first in a series from the Sustainable Residential Landscape Project, a study conducted in 2016 to address perceptions of landscapes in Florida, different factors that could influence the adoption of more sustainable landscape options, and ways to promote sustainable landscaping options. The Sustainable Residential Landscape Project was funded by the UF/IFAS Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology (CLCE).

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APLICACIONES DE LOS ÍNDICES DE FRAGMENTACIÓN DE LOS USOS DEL SUELO PARA CARACTERIZAR LA EXPANSIÓN URBANA

Proceedings - 1st Congress in Geomatics Engineering - CIGeo ◽

10.4995/cigeo2017.2017.6621 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Marta Sapena ◽

Luis Ángel Ruiz

Keyword(s):

Urban Sprawl ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Multiple Scales ◽

Landscape Management ◽

Growth Patterns ◽

Urban Level ◽

Socio Economic Variables ◽

Sustainable Landscape Management ◽

Sustainable Landscape

The growing number of people living in urban areas implies the need for more sustainable landscape management. The analysis and monitorization of urban areas allows for the quantification and characterization of urban sprawl processes. Currently, new geospatial and statistical databases are being developed in Europe (Urban Atlas and Urban Audit) with up-to-date and homogeneous information on urban areas, easing its comparison and monitorization, as well as the development of tools for computing urban fragmentation metrics by means of these data, such as IndiFrag. In this work, three applications of fragmentation metrics in multiple scales are presented. Firstly, an intra-urban analysis has been conducted by municipalities in Rome in two dates. Secondly, a massive analysis, comparing at the inter-urban level the fragmentation degree for one date and their growth patterns in a sample of 68 European urban areas. Finally, multiple regression models were tested to explore the prediction of socio-economic variables using the fragmentation metrics of the 68 urban areas. The outcomes show that fragmentation metrics for the analysis of morphology, composition, and urban growth, allow for quantifying urban sprawl patterns at intra- and inter-urban levels, facilitating its relation with socio-economic variables.http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIGeo2017.2017.6621

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Erosion Control Success Stories and Challenges in the Context of Sustainable Landscape Management, Rwanda Experience

Soil Erosion - Current Challenges and Future Perspectives in a Changing World ◽

10.5772/intechopen.96267 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jules Rutebuka

Keyword(s):

Scale Up ◽

Landscape Management ◽

Erosion Control ◽

Management Approach ◽

Agriculture Sector ◽

Success Stories ◽

The Government ◽

Sustainable Landscape Management ◽

Sustainable Landscape ◽

Farm Livestock

The Government of Rwanda sets up a conducive policy environment to invest in several development initiatives. Agriculture sector as the main contributor in the economic development received supports to sustainably manage Rwandan hilly landscape, dominantly ranging from 5 to 55% slope gradient. Intensive erosion control interventions confronted with different approaches have been introduced in the country such as participatory landscape management, (participatory) integrated watershed management and site-located intervention without any specified approach. This chapter intends to describe and evaluate the impacts of these previous approaches used in Rwanda in order to retrieve the success stories and encountered challenges as lessons learnt in the future interventions for optimizing land productivity in a sustainable manner. Participatory landscape approach in Gishwati area was a success story in protecting degraded lands and generating ecosystem benefits. It leads to more sustainable natural resources management from participatory planning up to implementation which addressed the frequent landslides, erosion and flooding while sustainably exploit the land to the profit of local farmers in the livelihoods. About 6,600 ha of lands have been successfully protected with full-packaged bench terraces, rangeland blocks and forest regeneration. This participatory approach also helped to relocate people from high risk zones to other safe places and build capacities of farmers through farm-livestock cooperatives. On the other side, Nyanza and Karongi sites under LWH project also emphasized strong evidences how land husbandry technologies (terraces) efficiently reduced erosion risks and improved farmers’ livelihoods. Lands were made productive with implementation of bench terraces on 3212 and 2673 hectares respectively for the two selected sites. However, challenges were observed from technical and socio-economic contexts which might have caused farmers to abandon or under-exploit the terraced lands. Finally, the chapter suggests to scale up the participatory landscape management approach which supports the involvement of farmers’ communities in the process.

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