Landscape Perspectives

Collateral Values: The Natural Capital Created by Landscapes of War benefits a broad audience of advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practicing professionals. The book includes case studies recounting successes and failures, opportunities and risks, and ambitious proposals.Both of these can create value beyond their original purpose, by preserving natural areas and restoring biodiversity.

Landscape planning has strengths in recognition of public benefits and implementation mechanisms, while the ecosystem services approach makes the connection between the status of natural assets and human well-being more explicit.The book is structured around the Driving forces-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses framework, providing an introduction to relevant concepts, methodologies and techniques. However, these resources and flows of services are increasingly threatened by unsustainable and competing land uses. This book argues that a solution to such challenges in Europe can be found by merging the landscape planning tradition with ecosystem services concepts.

Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Landscape Perspectives Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost.

It presents a new, ecosystem services-informed, approach to landscape planning that constitutes both a framework and toolbox for students and practitioners to address the environmental and landscape challenges of 21st century Europe.The book is structured around the Driving forces-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses framework, providing an introduction to relevant concepts, methodologies and techniques. However, these resources and flows of services are increasingly threatened by unsustainable and competing land uses. As market forces alone are not sufficient, effective means for local and regional planning are needed in order to safeguard scarce natural resources, coordinate land uses and create sustainable landscape structures.

It presents a new, ecosystem services-informed, approach to landscape planning that constitutes both a framework and toolbox for students and practitioners to address the environmental and landscape challenges of 21st century Europe.The book is structured around the Driving forces-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses framework, providing an introduction to relevant concepts, methodologies and techniques. Landscape planning has strengths in recognition of public benefits and implementation mechanisms, while the ecosystem services approach makes the connection between the status of natural assets and human well-being more explicit. It can also provide an economic perspective, focused on individual preferences and benefits, which helps validate the acceptability of environmental planning goals.