GIS-based Backcasting: An innovative method for parameterisation of sustainable spatial planning and resource management

Haslauer, Eva; Biberacher, Markus; Blaschke, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2011.10.012

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“…It is easier and more energizing to agree on long term goals than to solve short term problems. This insight is incorporated in process facilitation techniques based on appreciative enquiry (discussed by Liu and Opdam 2014 in the context of landscape services) and GISbased back casting approaches (Haslauer et al 2012). The use of landscape services as a boundary concept (Opdam et al 2015a;Westerink et al 2017) creates a level playing field for negotiations.…”

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Navigating the space between landscape science and collective action for sustainability: identifying key factors in information processing

Opdam

2020

Landscape Ecol

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Context Transitions to more sustainable landscapes require that actors change their thinking about using the landscape and act collectively to implement a shared view on the future. If landscape ecologists want their knowledge to contribute to such transitions, the information they provide need to stimulate collective decisions and action. Objective To identify key factors that determine how scientific information about landscape functioning and benefits influences actors in organizing collective action for landscape sustainability. Method I combine a theory of knowledge management with a theory of behavioural change to construct a framework of 4 phases of interpretation and implementation of landscape information. Results The 4 phases are: (1) actors accept the information as significant, (2) actors assess the saliency of the information for their case, (3) the information stimulates social network building and collective action, and (4) the information enforces the capacity to organize collaborative change. The extent to which these phases effectively develop in the interaction between scientists and practitioners depends on characteristics of the information, but to a great deal also on the process of interaction and the roles scientist play. I discuss how landscape ecologists can intervene in these phases, by providing the right information and by facilitating an interactive process of knowledge generation. Conclusions Whether landscape information is eventually used in organizing the landscape change depends on characteristics of the information and the governance process in which the information is brought in. Knowledge from social sciences is indispensable for landscape ecology with impact.

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Navigating the space between landscape science and collective action for sustainability: identifying key factors in information processing

Opdam

2020

Landscape Ecol

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“…Other backcasting approaches linked to spatial planning issues have also been developed (e.g. Haslauer, Biberacher, and Blaschke 2012;Quist 2007), but to the best of our knowledge no model-based, spatially explicit backcasting analysis has been implemented to date.…”

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“…Backcasting analyses are mainly influenced by exogenous factors such as, for example, geomorphological parameters (Haslauer, Biberacher and Blaschke 2012). In this particular backcasting exercise the future scenario was therefore created independently from existing dominant structures such as street networks, service supply facilities, or other buildings.…”

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A spatially explicit backcasting approach for sustainable land-use planning

Haslauer

Biberacher

Blaschke

2015

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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General backcasting as a decision support and planning method starts from desired future states and simulates developments backwards until reaching the present state. Development pathways that reveal steps to be taken to reach a certain future state, and milestones that serve as interim goals, are created during the process. Backcasting has hitherto only been applied in workshops or as a theoretical framework and no spatially explicit backcasting model has previously been established. This paper presents the development of a spatially explicit backcasting model. The proposed model first creates a future scenario utilizing an agent-based model and then simulates backwards. It is implemented using the programming language Python. The model has been applied to a case study for sustainable land-use planning in Salzburg, Austria. The results of the model run show a successful backcasting of land-use classes from a future state back to the present, in 10 year time steps.

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“…Because of the complexity of protected nature area planning and due to the development of the Geographic Information System (GIS) software, it is highly important to include specialist in GIS in the planning team, to support sustainable spatial planning and resource management (Brown & Weber, 2011;Haslauer, Biberacher, & Blasche, 2012).…”

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Importance of Interdisciplinary Spatial Planning of National Parks: Case Study of Croatia

Marković¹,

Babić²

2014

UCPA

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With the attempt to "reconcile" protection and tourism activities, spatial planning has a great importance in sustainable planning and management of Nature Protected Areas (NPAs). The spatial dimension of sustainability involves numerous processes and links among different purposes of lands, ecosystems, and biotopes at different levels through time, therefore, it is necessary to include all sciences and professions, whose common goal is the sustainability of the area, in the spatial planning process. This paper argues that there is a critical need for an interdisciplinary approach in spatial planning, which could improve the quality of planning of national parks and all other sensitive nature areas. Such approach should strive to the sustainability of protected nature destinations with the integration of knowledge. In Croatia, national park planning is still mostly done without comprehensive and integrated involvement of a wide range of science and profession, which ultimately significantly reduces the quality of the plans, as well as may have potentially negative effects on the future development.

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GIS-based Backcasting: An innovative method for parameterisation of sustainable spatial planning and resource management

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Navigating the space between landscape science and collective action for sustainability: identifying key factors in information processing

Navigating the space between landscape science and collective action for sustainability: identifying key factors in information processing

A spatially explicit backcasting approach for sustainable land-use planning

Importance of Interdisciplinary Spatial Planning of National Parks: Case Study of Croatia

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