Key concepts and research priorities for landscape sustainability

Musacchio, Laura R.

doi:10.1007/s10980-013-9909-6

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“…This can lead to misallocation of management and evaluation resources, set unreasonable expectations of assessment activities, produce inaccurate assessments of conservation interventions, and so on [17,[47][48][49]. To avoid difficulties, an increasing number of scholars encourage collaborations that cross disciplinary boundaries with wider scientific fields, particularly for the assessment of (urban) landscapes [11,12,[50][51][52].…”

Section: The Use Of Common Sustainable Development Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This approach broadens the understanding of heritage to include notions of attributes and values, (urban) setting and context, accompanied by a greater consideration for the social and economic role of (historic) cities [13]. The management of urban resources is becoming the nexus for cross-disciplinary inquiries on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being challenges in changing social, economic, and environmental conditions [11,12,14]. Therefore, the fact that appropriate (landscape) management is integrally linked to well-designed monitoring and evaluation systems is not only increasingly acknowledged among conservationists (natural and cultural), but is also being put forward within the context of sustainability and the efficient use of resources [6,12,[15][16][17][18].…”

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Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis

2018

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Within the urban context, heritage conservation has been acknowledged as fundamental for sustainable development. This paper address the need to develop methodologies that enable understanding of the dynamics between these two fields that for long were regarded as opposing practices. The research crosses disciplinary boundaries through a mixed methodology that identifies 27 urban development common indicators as factors that are affecting the conservation of 69 World Heritage Cities (WHC). Indicators, which were selected from global urban monitoring tools, were analyzed within UNESCO State-of-Conservation reporting system. Results reveal key trends on urban factors assessed as a SWOT analysis in relation to the management of WHC. We argue that urban indicators can facilitate the understanding of development impacts in cultural heritage conservation, across the social, economic, and environmental dimensions. This paper contributes to the debate on the ability of indicators to bridge interdisciplinary and methodological issues that were related to common conceptualizations between urban development and heritage conservation and sustainability. The conceptual approach that is presented has proven to offer an empirical basis for a monitoring practice that fosters the sustainable management of urban heritage, which in the light of the New Development Agenda and the gaps in the state-of-the-art, is very much needed.

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Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis

2018

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“…Ecosystem and landscape services have become a key issue in science and policy (Burkhard et al 2012;Bateman et al 2013;Bastian et al 2014) and are recognized as an essential part of the emerging landscape sustainability science (Termorshuizen and Opdam 2009;Musacchio 2013;Wu 2013). Research on ecosystem services (ES) has grown dramatically, as reflected in the exponential increase in papers and special issues referring to the subject (e.g.…”

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Integrating ecosystem services in landscape planning: requirements, approaches, and impacts

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Despite growing knowledge of ecosystem services (ES), and heightened awareness of their political and socio-economic relevance, mainstreaming and implementing ES in landscape planning and decision-making are still in their infancy. The objective of this special issue, therefore, is to explore requirements for, approaches to, and potential impacts of, integrating ES in landscape planning and management. The issue includes three key research themes: (i) Requirements and interests of planners and decision-makers for integrating ES in different application contexts, (ii) Approaches to applying ES in (participatory) planning, and (iii) Potential impacts of integrating ES in policy and decision-making. These themes are addressed by 12 papers that refer to case studies in Africa, Australia, and Europe. Four lessons are highlighted: (i) Information on ES is considered useful by many practitioners, but the type, production and communication of ES information need to be adapted to the specific context of a planning case; (ii) A broad range of approaches are available for integrating the ES concept in (participatory) planning with different and complementary contributions to decision-support; (iii) Effectively integrating ES in planning requires careful scoping of the context, objectives and capacities; (iv) Integrating ES in planning can effectively support the co

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“…The heuristic example presented here demonstrates the importance of using a plurality of approaches and building new linkages among disciplines to answer questions about landscape sustainability. Many foundational contributions to landscape ecology and sustainability science occurred through interdisciplinary collaborations (Potschin and Haines-Young 2012;Musacchio 2013). Despite the existence of established approaches for quantifying sustainability, the methods of landscape change modelling and LCA are not commonly used in combination.…”

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Why landscape ecologists should contribute to life cycle sustainability approaches

Eddy

Gergel

2014

Landscape Ecol

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Context Understanding the consequences of changes in land use and land cover is among the greatest challenges in sustainability science, yet key themes related to land cover change are often left out of sustainability assessment tools. Because sustainability teaching is expanding at a rapid rate, incorporation of interdisciplinary, rigorous, quantitative tools to distinguish sustainable and unsustainable landscape change are needed. Objective As a heuristic exercise, we contrast and synthesize two approaches to quantifying sustainability using a case study of palm oil and tropical deforestation in Borneo, Indonesia. Methods First, we use Markovian land cover change analysis (from 2000 to 2010) to estimate changes in forest cover, project these rates of change into the near future, and estimate changes in carbon stocks due to palm oil conversion. Second, we estimate greenhouse gas emissions from a typical Indonesian palm oil biodiesel plantation using a life cycle assessment approach (LCA). Results These two approaches show conflicting assessments for the carbon footprint of palm biodiesel: a sustainable endeavor when short-term global warming potential is evaluated yet highly unsustainable when rates of forest loss are measured. Furthermore, accounting for carbon that incorporated prior land cover dramatically altered sustainability assessments. Conclusions Thus, integration of these two approaches reveals the importance of including both historic and future land cover changes into sustainability assessments. This synthesis demonstrates the importance of using a plurality of approaches from different disciplines when teaching sustainability, and highlights the unique role that landscape ecological approaches can play in sustainability assessments such as LCA.

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Key concepts and research priorities for landscape sustainability

Cited by 45 publications

References 25 publications

Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis

Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis

Integrating ecosystem services in landscape planning: requirements, approaches, and impacts

Why landscape ecologists should contribute to life cycle sustainability approaches

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