Protected Landscapes

Protected Landscapes
Author: John Foster
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1988
Genre: Landscape protection
ISBN: 9782880329396

Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values

Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values
Author: Thora Amend
Publisher: Kasparek Verlag
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2008
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 3925064486

Presents twelve case studies from different parts of the world illustrating the role Protected Landscapes are playing in conserving agrobiodiversity and related knowledge and practices. This title includes a synthesis that focuses on the key lessons to be learned from these case studies

Protected Landscapes

Protected Landscapes
Author: P.H.C. Lucas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1992-06-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780412455308

Many countries have areas with special natural qualities characterized by the harmonious interaction between resident populations and the land. This book sets out the varied approaches to establishing such areas as protected landscapes. It provides guidance on criteria for selection of landscapes, implementation, management and the legal measures involved if protection is to be achieved.

The Protected Landscape Approach

The Protected Landscape Approach
Author: Jessica Brown
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2005
Genre: Landscape protection
ISBN: 2831707978

The traditional patterns of land use that have created many of the world's cultural landscapes contribute to biodiversity, support ecological processes, provide important environmental services, and have proven sustainable over the centuries. Protected landscapes can serve as living models of sustainable use of land and resources, and offer important lessons for sustainable development. Examples of these landscapes and the diverse strategies needed to maintain this essential relationship between people and the land are provided.

The Economic Value of Landscapes

The Economic Value of Landscapes
Author: C. Martijn van der Heide
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135125112

This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, landscape governance and landscape perceptions from different countries. Merely saying that landscapes have value or are important is not sufficient – not when resources are scarce and have alternative uses. Measuring and quantifying the economic value of changes in landscapes would help ensure that landscape management decisions are both (economically) rational and sound.

Landscape and Sustainability

Landscape and Sustainability
Author: John Benson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 113413794X

This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This second edition contains updated and new material reflecting developments during the last five years and comprehensively addresses the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability. Much in the text is underpinned by landscape ecology, in contrast to the idea of landscape as only appealing to the eye or aspiring cerebrally to be fine art. Landscape and Sustainability establishes that the sustainability agenda needs a new mindset among professionals: the driving question must always be β€˜is it sustainable?’ Developing theory into practice, from the global to the local scale and from issues of policy and planning through to detailed design and implementation and on to long-term maintenance and management, the contributors raise and re-examine a complex array of research, policy and professional issues and agendas to contribute to the necessary ongoing debate about the future of both landscape and sustainability.