Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Landscape Ecological Approaches to a Low Carbon Society

      • Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Jhonamie A. Mabuhay

      Pages 3-11

3. Urban Landscape Ecology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Cooling Potential of Urban Green Spaces in Summer

      • Kochi Tonosaki, Shiro Kawai, Koji Tokoro

      Pages 15-34

   3. A Study on the Restoration of Urban Ecology: Focus on the Concept of Home Place in Callenbach’s Ecotopia—A Park Conservation and Community Networks

      • Masami Kato

      Pages 35-56

   4. Transpiration Characteristics of Chinese Pines (Pinus tabulaeformis) in an Urban Environment

      • Hua Wang, Zhiyun Ouyang, Weiping Chen, Xiaoke Wang, Hua Zheng

      Pages 57-71

   5. Landscape Design for Urban Biodiversity and Ecological Education in Japan: Approach from Process Planning and Multifunctional Landscape Planning

      • Keitaro Ito, Ingunn Fjørtoft, Tohru Manabe, Mahito Kamada

      Pages 73-86

4. Ecologies in Cultural Landscapes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Can Satoyama Offer a Realistic Solution for a Low Carbon Society? Public Perception and Challenges Arising

      • Yuuki Iwata, Takakazu Yumoto, Yukihiro Morimoto

      Pages 89-108

   3. Effects of Sustainable Energy Facilities on Landscape: A Case Study of Slovakia

      • Katarina Pavlickova, Anna Miklosovicova, Monika Vyskupova

      Pages 109-127

   4. Low Carbon Society Through Pekarangan, Traditional Agroforestry Practices in Java, Indonesia

      • Hadi Susilo Arifin, Regan Leonardus Kaswanto, Nobukazu Nakagoshi

      Pages 129-143

   5. Challenges and Goal of the Sustainable Island: Case Study in UNESCO Shinan Dadohae Biosphere Reserve, Korea

      • Sun-Kee Hong, Heon-Jong Lee, Bong-Ryong Kang, Jae-Eun Kim, Kyoung-Ah Lee, Kyoung-Wan Kim et al.

      Pages 145-162

   6. The Neglect of Traditional Ecological Knowledge on Wild Elephant-Related Problems in Xishuangbanna, SW China

      • Zhao-lu Wu, Qing-cheng He, Qiu-jun Wu

      Pages 163-176

   7. Effects of Tropical Successional Forests on Bird Feeding Guilds

      • Eurídice Leyequién, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni, Waldemar Santamaría-Rivero, Juan Manuel Dupuy-Rada, Juan Bautista Chable-Santos

      Pages 177-202

5. Ecologies in Protected Areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Understanding Development Trends and Landscape Changes of Protected Areas in Peninsular Malaysia: A Much Needed Component of Sustainable Conservation Planning

      • Saiful Arif Abdullah, Shukor Md. Nor, Abdul Malek Mohd Yusof

      Pages 205-222

   3. Land Use Trends Analysis Using SPOT 5 Images and Its Effect on the Landscape of Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

      • Mohd Hasmadi Ismail, Che Ku Akmar Che Ku Othman, Ismail Adnan Abd Malek, Saiful Arif Abdullah

      Pages 223-238

   4. The Relationship Between Land Use/Land Cover Change and Land Degradation of a Natural Protected Area in Batang Merao Watershed, Indonesia

      • Rachmad Firdaus, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Aswandi Idris, Beni Raharjo

      Pages 239-251

   5. Ecotourism Activities for Sustainability and Management of Forest Protected Areas: A Case of Camili Biosphere Reserve Area, Turkey

      • Mustafa Fehmi Türker, İnci Zeynep Aydın, Türkan Aydın

      Pages 253-269

This book focuses on three major means of achieving a low carbon society: conservation of the ecosystem complex, changes of arrangement of landscapes, and creation of biodiversity. There are specific countermeasures to be taken for carbon absorption in the three types of landscapes—urban, cultural, and natural—because their carbon balances differ. Urban landscapes are promising sites because they have the potential for greening and the creation of biodiversity. Cultural landscapes in the tropics had not been actively researched until recently, but this book now presents a collection of several cases focused on those areas. Natural landscapes had existed in abundance in developing countries; later, nature protection areas were designated to coexist with development. Now, however, developmental pressure has penetrated into those nature protection areas, and landscape ecological projects are urgently required to preserve them.

As a result of global warming, abnormal weather phenomena including super typhoons have occurred frequently in recent years. The major underlying cause is the higher concentration of greenhouse gases released by human activities. As well, major natural absorbers of CO₂ such as forests, wetlands, and coral reefs are shrinking, and the human impact is causing the ecological balance to deteriorate. Controlling CO₂ emissions and expanding the CO₂ absorbers are keys to reducing total CO₂. Low carbon societies can be established by maintaining the original CO₂ balance through integration of multiple tools, with contributions from diverse fields such as physics and chemistry, physiology and humanities, and education. On the basis of an international consensus, the environment must be protected no matter what sacrifices are required. As this book demonstrates, achieving a low carbon society is a top priority, and landscape conservation is the first step in ecological research toward that goal.

• Biodiversity
• Ecological Networks
• Landscape Ecology
• Sustainable Energy
• Urban Environment

From the book reviews:

“The book is suitable for researchers, policy makers and town planners. … the book is interesting as it ‘contains several research cases on tropical regions that had not been actively explored in the past’. Readers have the ‘option to choose their favourite chapters according to their individual interests in landscapes’.” (P. C. Abhilash, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 87, 2015)

• Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

  Nobukazu Nakagoshi

• Mindanao State University, Marawi, Philippines

  Jhonamie A. Mabuhay