Leveraging the No Net Land Take Policy through Ecological Connectivity Analysis: The Role of Industrial Platforms in Flanders, Belgium
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Infrastructures and Bouwshift
1.2. Background Flanders Region
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Patch–Corridor–Matrix Model
2.2. Multifunctionality Framework for Assessing GI Planning
3. Results
3.1. The Ecological Network Analysis of Flanders
3.2. Ecological Network Analysis of the Industrial Platforms
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Nalumu, D.J.; Peña, D.O.; Perrotti, D. Leveraging the No Net Land Take Policy through Ecological Connectivity Analysis: The Role of Industrial Platforms in Flanders, Belgium. Sustainability 2023, 15, 16103. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152216103
Nalumu DJ, Peña DO, Perrotti D. Leveraging the No Net Land Take Policy through Ecological Connectivity Analysis: The Role of Industrial Platforms in Flanders, Belgium. Sustainability. 2023; 15(22):16103. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152216103
Chicago/Turabian StyleNalumu, Dorothy Julian, Daniel Otero Peña, and Daniela Perrotti. 2023. "Leveraging the No Net Land Take Policy through Ecological Connectivity Analysis: The Role of Industrial Platforms in Flanders, Belgium" Sustainability 15, no. 22: 16103. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152216103