Landscape futures: decision-making in uncertain times, a literature review

Bartolini, Nadia; DeSilvey, Caitlin

doi:10.1080/01426397.2020.1861228

Cited by 10 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 147 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Collaboration around technical sensing work can provide a mechanism for better communication and understanding of different groups' needs and perspectives, which are important to the success of efforts to promote integrated sustainable land management. Initiatives such as the "Towards Integrated Cultural/Natural Heritage Decision Making" project have highlighted the need for new strategies to respond and engage proactively, rather than reactively, to planning for the future of the landscape and call for a rethinking of the aims of integrated land management [145,146].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practicing Critical Zone Observation in Agricultural Landscapes: Communities, Technology, Environment and Archaeology

Opitz

Smedt

Mayoral-Herrera

et al. 2023

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aims of agricultural land management change continuously, reflecting shifts in wider societal priorities. Currently, these include addressing the climate crisis, promoting environmental sustainability, and supporting the livelihoods of rural communities while ensuring food security. Working toward these aims requires information on the character of agricultural land and how dynamic processes influence it. Remote and near-surface sensing data are important sources of information on the characteristics of soils, plants, water, topography, and related processes. Sensing data are collected, analysed, and used in decision-making by specialists in multiple domains connected to land management. While progress has been made to connect the use of sensing data across agricultural and environmental applications under the umbrella of integrated sustainable land management, archaeological and heritage uses of these data remain largely disconnected. This creates barriers to accounting for the impacts of past human activities on contemporary agricultural landscapes through the alteration of soils, topography, and plant communities. In parallel, it hinders the creation of knowledge about the archaeological features which form an essential part of the heritage of agricultural landscapes. The ipaast-czo project explores the potential of a coordinated approach across all these domains, which would reduce these barriers and provide benefits by better integrating information generated using sensing. To do so, both conceptual and practical barriers to developing shared practices and how these might be overcome were considered. In this study, a conceptual framework designed to create a shared understanding of how agricultural landscapes work and enable collaboration around their management was proposed. This framework treats present-day rural agricultural landscapes as Critical Zones: complex entities shaped by long-term human–environment interactions including contemporary farming. Practitioners in precision agriculture and archaeological remote and near-surface sensing, as well as users of these data, were engaged using workshops and interviews. The relationships between practitioners’ objectives, data requirements for their applications, and their perceptions of the benefits and disadvantages of changing working practices were interrogated. The conceptual framework and assessment of practical benefits and challenges emerging from this work provide a foundation for leveraging shared sensing data and methods for long-term integrated sustainable land management.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practicing Critical Zone Observation in Agricultural Landscapes: Communities, Technology, Environment and Archaeology

Opitz

Smedt

Mayoral-Herrera

et al. 2023

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Barua, 2014; Brettell, 2016; Clancy et al, 2021; Connolly, 2017, 2020; Davies, 2021; Duggan, 2021; Garlick, 2019; Geros, 2021; Hubbard and Wilkinson, 2019; Huddart and Huggan, 2022; Jamieson, 2017; Marijnen, 2021; McConnell and Saladyga, 2020; Ojeda et al, 2021; Olden, 2017; Ray, 2016; Sutherland, 2021; Youngs, 2020). Rapid environmental change is increasingly affecting landscape futures, and this ‘not only puts immediate pressure on identifying alternative futures for landscapes but also threatens to unsettle patterns of attachment to the landscape’ (Bartolini and DeSilvey, 2021: 8). Recent explorations of landscape and the Anthropocene complement this landscape research on the politics of environmental change (e.g.…”

Section: Grounding the New Materials Landscapes Of Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

Riding

2023

Progress in Human Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Geographers have been engaging with landscape since the beginning of the modern discipline of geography. A series of concurrent turns have taken place in human geography in recent years that are influencing the ways in which geographers approach landscape. We take forward new material, decolonial, and creative shifts in the discipline to reimagine landscape. Landscape is a geographical concept that has historically excluded a range of other voices and perspectives. To build a radically inclusive agenda for landscape research in geography, we put forward a generative conceptualisation of landscape that brings together (i) materiality; (ii) decoloniality; and (iii) creativity.

show abstract

“…Innovation to improve landscape service quantification: Policy goals on biodiversity conservation, food security, net-zero emissions, and sustainable land and ecosystem service management are dominant themes that drive landscape decisions [1,2,16,58,59]. The rationale is that a sustainable and multifunctional landscape must be achieved within the context of actualising these policy goals [11,16,52,60].…”

Section: Awareness Of Human Impact On Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This assertion is supported by the findings in [15] on sustainable and multifunctional landscapes. Nevertheless, we face a formidable challenge when identifying landscape decision principles at a regional or national scale that could be used to provide a scientific rationale and support the specific types of drivers of decisions per landscape archetype [8,22,58,69].…”

Section: Framing Evidence To Inform Landscape Decisions: a Roadmap To...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence Synthesis towards a Holistic Landscape Decision Framework: Insight from the Landscape Decisions Programme

Ofoegbu

Balzter

Phillips

2023

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The development of a decision framework for landscape governance and management has become one of the prioritised policy instruments for actualising policy objectives related to agri-food systems, biodiversity conservation, nature restoration, environmental management, climate change mitigation and adaptation, net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, and the transition to renewable energy supplies. However, the landscape lens in policy making is challenging because of the diverse landscape archetypes, environmental problems, and diverging policy targets that it must address. This highlights the importance of having a robust, evidence-based landscape decision framework. To address this issue, this study undertook a transdisciplinary synthesis of research outputs from the Landscape Decisions Programme (LDP). This study compiles and synthesises outputs from the LDP projects in the context of the relevant literature to develop an understanding of the relationships among the emerging evidence with respect to decision making for sustainable and multifunctional landscapes. The synthesis identified six themes that define the drivers of landscape decisions, and four themes that define the dominant methodological approaches used to generate evidence for landscape decisions. The emergent themes from the synthesis were distilled into five principles that can be used as a basis for the development of a holistic landscape decision framework.

show abstract

Landscape futures: decision-making in uncertain times, a literature review

Cited by 10 publications

References 147 publications

Practicing Critical Zone Observation in Agricultural Landscapes: Communities, Technology, Environment and Archaeology

Practicing Critical Zone Observation in Agricultural Landscapes: Communities, Technology, Environment and Archaeology

Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Evidence Synthesis towards a Holistic Landscape Decision Framework: Insight from the Landscape Decisions Programme

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About