Landscape Planning for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 23843
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental and sustainability indicators; sustainable development; global change; landscape ecology; landscape planning; ecological restoration; resilience
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Dear Colleagues,
“Making progress towards sustainability is like going to a destination we have never visited before, equipped with a sense of geography and the principles of navigation, but without a map or compass” (Hales & Prescott-Allen, 2002: 6). Undoubtedly, further understanding of how humanity manages and lives within landscapes is paramount to reaching destination sustainability. Therefore, this Special Issue of Sustainability aims to report the current state of landscape planning in regards to designing, planning, restoring, modeling, and evaluating natural and human-dominated landscapes. From the foundational works of the great ‘seers’ Ebenezer Howard, Fredrick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ian McHarg, Jane Jacobs, and Le Corbusier to their modern counterparts Marina Alberti, Jack Ahern, Richard T.T. Forman, Andre Botequilha Leitão, Kevin McGarigal, Monica Turner, and Jianguo Wu, it is imperative to showcase the current state of the art of landscape planning.
This Special Issue welcomes theoretical discussions, applied international case studies, review articles, management practice, and policy papers that connect landscape planning with the themes of resilience, sustainable development, and sustainability. Submissions dealing with the following areas are specifically of interest:
- Best practices for the inclusion of stakeholders and marginalized populations in landscape planning.
- New tools and technological advances in the practice of landscape planning.
- The role of landscape planning in ecological restoration, building resilience, and addressing global change.
- Landscape planning perspectives, methods, and designs for urban renewal and creating sustainable cities.
- Policy and theoretical frameworks connecting sustainable development and resilience goals with landscape planning across scales.
- Landscape planning research gaps and future perspectives.
Dr. Richard Ross Shaker
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Landscape planning
- Landscape ecology
- Landscape design
- Landscape architecture
- Urbanization
- Ecological restoration
- Environmental planning
- Environmental management
- Global change
- Resilience
- Urban resilience
- Sustainable development
- Sustainability
- Spatial analysis
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