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Future Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges Seen from the Perspective of Resilient and Sustainable Landscapes

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil Conservation and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 9348

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ebru Ersoy Tonyaloğlu

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Department of Landscape Architecure, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, 09100 Aydın, Turkey
Interests: landscape planning; landscape ecology; ecosystem services
Dr. Birsen Kesgin Atak

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İzmir Democracy University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, İzmir, Turkey
Interests: landscape planning; landscape ecology; ecosystem services
Dr. Melih Bozkurt

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Department of Landscape, Faculty of Architecture, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey
Interests: land use/cover change; modeling future trends in landscapes; geographic information systems and remote sensing
Dr. Hanife Vardı Topal

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İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University, Faculty of Engineering And Architecture / Department of City And Regional Planning, Subdiscipline of Urbanization, İzmir, Turkey
Interests: children's landscape; landscape perception; social issues in landscape architecture; relationship between physical health and green spaces

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Future pattern and functioning of landscapes are mostly determined by human activities regarding the past and current human and nature interactions, landscape change and vulnerability of landscapes to current and future stressors in coupled socio-ecological systems. We envisage this Special Issue becoming a cornerstone of the literature, providing a platform for researchers from all disciplines and various fields for sharing the knowledge and methodology on the main challenges, opportunities and future directions for enhancing landscape resilience and sustainability. The Special Issue will include, theoretical and practical research focusing on, but need not to be limited to, the following:

  • Technological advances that create new ways of connecting people with nature, increasing awareness and adoption of sustainable landscape planning practices,
  • The ways of creating healthy landscapes that enhances and maintains multifunctionality,
  • Spatial patterns and key features of landscapes for resilient landscapes,
  • Integrated approaches to improve ways of monitoring landscape change and biodiversity,
  • Planning and designing sustainable and resilient future landscapes,
  • Landscape management pathways to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
  • Evaluation of ecosystem services (ESs) in changing landscapes; future challenges and opportunities,
  • Addressing challenges of sustaining landscape functions in human-dominated landscapes.

Dr. Ebru Ersoy Tonyaloğlu
Dr. Birsen Kesgin Atak
Dr. Melih Bozkurt
Dr. Hanife Vardı Topal
Guest Editors

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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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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 2400 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 change
  • socio-ecological systems
  • ecosystem services
  • landscape resilience
  • landscape vulnerability
  • multifunctionality

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Land Use Misclassification Results in Water Use, Economic Value, and GHG Emission Discrepancies in California’s High-Intensity Agriculture Region
by Vicky Espinoza, Lorenzo Ade Booth and Joshua H. Viers
Sustainability 2023, 15(8), 6829; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15086829 - 18 Apr 2023
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California’s San Joaquin Valley is both drought-prone and water-scarce but relies on high-intensity agriculture as its primary economy. Climate change adaptation strategies for high-intensity agriculture require reliable and highly resolved land use classification data to accurately account for changes in crop water demand, [...] Read more.
California’s San Joaquin Valley is both drought-prone and water-scarce but relies on high-intensity agriculture as its primary economy. Climate change adaptation strategies for high-intensity agriculture require reliable and highly resolved land use classification data to accurately account for changes in crop water demand, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and farmgate revenue. Understanding direct and indirect economic impacts from potential changes to high-intensity agriculture to reduce groundwater overdrafts, such as reductions in the cultivated area or switching to less water-intensive crops, is unachievable if land use data are too coarse and inconsistent or misclassified. This study quantified the revenue, crop water requirement, and GHG emission discrepancies resulting from land use misclassification in the United States’ most complex agricultural region, California’s San Joaquin Valley. By comparing three commonly used land use classification datasets—CropScape, Land IQ, and Kern County Agriculture—this study found that CropScape led to considerable revenue and crop water requirement discrepancies compared to other sources. Crop misclassification across all datasets resulted in an underestimation of GHG emissions. The total revenue discrepancies of misclassified crops by area for the 2016 dataset comparisons result in underestimations by CropScape of around USD 3 billion and overestimation by LIQ and Kern Ag of USD 72 million. Reducing crop misclassification discrepancies is essential for crafting climate resilience strategies, especially for California, which generates USD 50 billion in annual agricultural revenue, faces increasing water scarcity, and aims to reach carbon neutrality by 2045. Additional investments are needed to produce spatial land use data that are highly resolved and locally validated, especially in high-intensity agriculture regions dominated by specialty crops with unique characteristics not well suited to national mapping efforts. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges Seen from the Perspective of Resilient and Sustainable Landscapes)
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Effects of Multisensory Integration through Spherical Video-Based Immersive Virtual Reality on Students’ Learning Performances in a Landscape Architecture Conservation Course
by Weilong Wu, Zhanpeng Zhao, Ao Du and Jiaqing Lin
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16891; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416891 - 16 Dec 2022
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Many courses are transitioning from offline to online instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Landscape architecture conservation courses face problems such as reduced interest in learning, poor learning attitudes and low learning efficiency among students. At the same time, due to [...] Read more.
Many courses are transitioning from offline to online instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Landscape architecture conservation courses face problems such as reduced interest in learning, poor learning attitudes and low learning efficiency among students. At the same time, due to the nature of landscape architecture conservation courses, students need more experience to learn well, and many landscape architecture courses do not meet this requirement. Online education also lacks the necessary education scenarios and is not very immersive, making it difficult to meet students’ learning needs. Continued advances in technology have provided new ways for people to connect with nature, increasing awareness and adoption of sustainable landscape architecture practices. To solve the above problems, this study uses multisensory spherical video-based immersive virtual reality technology to develop a VR learning system for landscape architecture conservation courses based on the senses of sight, sound and smell. This system is simple to operate, but interactive and immersive. A quasi-experimental study was also conducted to test the effectiveness of the system. Analyzing the results of the study, students in the experimental group outperformed students in the control group in terms of learning achievements, learning model satisfaction, technology acceptance, flow experience and learning attitudes, which suggests that the use of multisensory spherical video-based immersive virtual reality technology in a landscape architecture conservation course is effective in improving students’ learning performances, and that the study can provide input for the development of other courses. Full article
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Predicting the Potential Distribution Area of the Platanus orientalis L. in Turkey Today and in the Future
by Özgür Kamer Aksoy
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11706; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811706 - 18 Sep 2022
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Climate conditions throughout the world clearly affect every aspect of the lives of plants, animals, and humans. Platanus orientalis L. (Oriental plane) is an important tree species for the economy, culture, and forest ecosystems. Recent studies indicate that the climatic conditions significantly affect [...] Read more.
Climate conditions throughout the world clearly affect every aspect of the lives of plants, animals, and humans. Platanus orientalis L. (Oriental plane) is an important tree species for the economy, culture, and forest ecosystems. Recent studies indicate that the climatic conditions significantly affect the distribution areas of Platanus orientalis L. This study aims to model the potential geographical distribution of Platanus orientalis L., which has a natural distribution in Turkey, today and in the future. The geographical distribution of Platanus orientalis L. is under pressure from human activities such as intensive agricultural production, changes in riverbanks, and increased urban development and road construction, and its population is in serious decline. The study produced prediction models using presence data belonging to the species, bio-climatic variables and altitude, and the distributions of the species were determined according to two separate global climate change scenarios. The potential distribution areas of Platanus orientalis L. for the periods 2041–2060 and 2081–2100 under the SSP5 4.5 and SSP5 8.5 scenarios were modelled using MaxEnt 3.4.1. The distribution area of the species in Turkey will be negatively affected by climatic changes due to relatively medium and high increases in the temperature. Platanus orientalis L., which is also found in the Mediterranean basin, the region subject to the most intensive climate changes, will face the risk of extinction unless it is able to adapt to these changes. Results on the current and future potential distributions of Platanus orientalis L. in Turkey provide crucial insights into species’ response to climate change, particularly to increases in temperature. Extent and locations of predicted suitable and unchanged areas for the distribution of Platanus orientalis L. can be used for developing strategies in conservation, management, monitoring, and cultivation of Platanus orientalis L. in the face of climate change. Full article
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Landscape Ecological Concepts in Planning (LEP): Progress, Hotspots, and Prospects
by Yi Huang, Li Peng and Yongchang Li
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16642; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416642 - 12 Dec 2022
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As an interdisciplinary topic, landscape ecology has great potential in providing knowledge for landscape planning. However, previous studies have not been reviewed by multidisciplinary journals. There has not yet been a thorough analysis of these studies, and it is unclear how different points [...] Read more.
As an interdisciplinary topic, landscape ecology has great potential in providing knowledge for landscape planning. However, previous studies have not been reviewed by multidisciplinary journals. There has not yet been a thorough analysis of these studies, and it is unclear how different points of view have evolved. In this study, CiteSpace software is used to analyze the evolution and current state of LEP research from several perspectives, which also identifies research hotspots and future research trends. The main findings are as follows: (i) There are three phases in LEP research: preparation, rising, and prosperity. LEP research is gradually shifting from concentrated ecological or environmental science to multidisciplinary fields, and there are significant opportunities for LEP research to build global collaborative networks. (ii) The focus of this research has gradually shifted from quantifying environmental impact to analyzing the internal process of the urban system. (iii) Future research will concentrate on a spatial model of landscape system analysis, landscape ecological resilience research, and LEP research in “urban agglomeration” with the hope of increasing the ability to realize sustainable space development. Full article
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