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Spatial Concepts, Planning Strategies, and Future Scenarios: A Framework Method for Integrating Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning

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Landscape planning can be defined as the practice of planning for the sustainable use of physical, biological, and cultural resources. It seeks the protection of unique, scarce, and rare resources, avoidance of hazards, protection of limited resources for controlled use, and accommodating development in appropriate locations (Fabos 1985). Sustainable landscape planning has been strongly supported through major international policy agreements, and can be generally defined as “a condition of stability in physical and social systems achieved by accommodating the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs” (IUCN 1980; WCED 1987). Increased international interest in sustainable landscape planning has stimulated much discussion at professional conferences and symposia and in recent publications (Lyle 1994; Forman 1995). More significantly, and in the context of this chapter, this challenge for sustainable landscape planning has also inspired a dialogue between ecologists and landscape planners within the discipline of landscape ecology (Forman 1990a; Golley and Bellot 1991; Vos and Opdam 1993; Hersperger 1994; Langevelde van 1994).

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Ahern, J. (1999). Spatial Concepts, Planning Strategies, and Future Scenarios: A Framework Method for Integrating Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning. In: Klopatek, J.M., Gardner, R.H. (eds) Landscape Ecological Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0529-6_10

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