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Landscape-Based Spatial Planning in Europe

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 6401

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Bas Pedroli

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Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: biodiversity assessment; land use planning; landscape ecology; policy evaluation; integrated water management; land use dynamics; landscape analysis; rural development; sustainability; spatial planning; urban environments; floodplain
Dr. Juan Jose Galan Vivas

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Department of Urbanism, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: landscape planning and design; urbanism, socio-ecological systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit contributions to this Special Issue entitled “Landscape-Based Spatial Planning in Europe”. Many researchers claim that a landscape-based planning approach to spatial policy challenges may enhance a regime shift towards a future land system, which will be resilient to the many external pressures that it currently experiences. In this approach, the landscape is considered as a comprehensive principle, to which all spatial processes are inherently related. In this Special Issue, we consider landscape as a vehicle for spatial planning at different scales, rather than as an object of planning itself. Starting from the basic abiotic differentiation underlying all landscape processes, a landscape-based approach to spatial planning should make use of the opportunities offered by the landscapes, further differentiated by societal expectations and cultural norms (similar to those of the European Landscape Convention), instead of designing the landscape according to the economic ambitions of today's users only, which often remains the most dominant practice.

This Special Issue aims to provide a deep and complete overview of the state-of-the-art processes associated with Landscape-Based Spatial Planning in Europe and to inform scholars of the definition of future planning frameworks by international, European, national, and regional policymakers and decision-makers. Therefore, manuscripts with a sound conceptual and methodological approach, highly transferable results, and strong connections to existing planning agendas and challenges are especially favored.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  1. Making Europe a place for everyone: promoting the development of new and deeper linkages between individuals, communities, and places as a way to construct social capital and personal bonds ‘to’ and ‘through’ the landscape in an increasingly globalized and digital world.
  2. Landscape as mediator: supporting systemic and transdisciplinary ways of thinking and using the landscape as a connector between societal and environmental challenges.
  3. Landscape knowledge for better spatial decisions: favoring the generation of knowledge, tools, and processes to effectively integrate the landscape into decision-making processes at different temporal and spatial scales.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Bas Pedroli
Dr. Juan Jose Galan Vivas
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • landscape planning
  • spatial planning
  • European landscape convention
  • landscape-based solutions
  • regional planning
  • spatial policies

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New Approach to Landscape-Based Spatial Planning Using Meaningful Geolocated Digital Traces
by Clara García-Mayor and Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda
Land 2023, 12(5), 951; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12050951 - 24 Apr 2023
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The integration of landscape-based approaches into regional and town planning policies is one of the main objectives of the European Landscape Convention. In the twenty-first century, the traditional discipline of city spatial-planning has gradually been incorporating two types of tactics linked to a [...] Read more.
The integration of landscape-based approaches into regional and town planning policies is one of the main objectives of the European Landscape Convention. In the twenty-first century, the traditional discipline of city spatial-planning has gradually been incorporating two types of tactics linked to a landscape-based approach: nature-based strategies, which focus on sustainable goals; and people-based strategies, which integrate a social dimension into decision-making processes. A backbone of landscape-based spatial planning challenge consists of reshaping consolidated urban areas to improve quality of life, encouraging people’s physical activity, and supporting healthier urban lifestyles. This study assumes that physical activity is further encouraged by itineraries that incorporate both landscape features—i.e., natural assets and sense of place—and functional diversity associated with urban activities—i.e., public facilities. A methodology was elaborated to define a preliminary landscape-based spatial planning approach, centering on the analysis of walking-related activity in urban and peri-urban areas. For this purpose, geolocated digital traces are intertwined: official city routes, urban facility locations, users’ Wikiloc trails, and Google Places API data. Once applied to selected medium-sized European cities in the Mediterranean area, these data sources lead to the identification of intangible values and dynamics in places where landscape-based spatial planning solutions could be enhanced. As a result, the present work shows the suitability of interrelating these geolocated data sources, permitting to identify landscape features as key components of spatial planning, which permit balancing individual goals, the aims of local communities, and administrative functions. Full article
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Landscape in Spatial Planning: Some Evidence on Methodological Issues and Political Challenges
by Anna Marson
Land 2023, 12(4), 827; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040827 - 4 Apr 2023
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In recent decades, the landscape has given a new impulse to the renewal of spatial planning. This process has nevertheless raised several methodological issues about how to deal with sensitive non-functional aspects in spatial planning tools and procedures, as well as new challenges [...] Read more.
In recent decades, the landscape has given a new impulse to the renewal of spatial planning. This process has nevertheless raised several methodological issues about how to deal with sensitive non-functional aspects in spatial planning tools and procedures, as well as new challenges for policy design. Placemaking, landscape urbanism, and landscape planning do not differ just in scale but in their very idea of public/collective interest and the action that is required to reach them. Reflecting on some evidence from the recent Italian experience of landscape plans and policies, based on direct involvement in practice and academic debate, the author will highlight several main issues at stake today in this field. The conclusions will argue some potentially promising innovation perspectives, on both processes and contents regarding landscape-based spatial planning and policies, as well as some critical conditions of an institutional context. Full article
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Long-Term Visioning for Landscape-Based Spatial Planning—Experiences from Two Regional Cases in The Netherlands
by Ilse Voskamp, Wim Timmermans, Onno Roosenschoon, Remco Kranendonk, Sabine van Rooij, Tim van Hattum, Marjolein Sterk and Bas Pedroli
Land 2023, 12(1), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12010038 - 23 Dec 2022
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Normative scenarios for long-term (e.g., 100 years) landscape development can be very inspiring to imagine outside the box landscape futures, without being obliged to define concrete policy objectives for the shorter term. However, it remains challenging to translate such long-term visions into clear [...] Read more.
Normative scenarios for long-term (e.g., 100 years) landscape development can be very inspiring to imagine outside the box landscape futures, without being obliged to define concrete policy objectives for the shorter term. However, it remains challenging to translate such long-term visions into clear transition pathways. We draw upon a landscape-based design approach to local spatial planning to foster a transition to a well-functioning landscape, resilient to various external pressures. Inspired by a national visioning exercise for the Netherlands in 2120, two local case studies at municipal level in the Netherlands are analysed, aiming to identify in what ways the setup of a regional landscape-based design study using future visions can optimise the spatial planning process. Therefore, this comparative case study analysed the cases on the landscape-based approach, the design process, and the future visions formulated. The comparison shows that fostering abiotic differences safeguards sustainable and resilient landscapes; moreover, co-creation relying on representative local actors appears fundamental for shared solutions, while a landscape-based approach guarantees transitions to adaptive and biodiverse landscapes. We conclude that a shared long-term future landscape vision is a crucial source of inspiration to solve today’s spatial planning problems. The constellation of the stakeholder group involved and the methodological setup of a visioning process are determinative for the way a long-term vision is suited to informing spatial planning for a sustainable future. Full article
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