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Procedural theory deals with the methodological directives, processes, and principles for employing substantive knowledge in design and planning to manage landscape change. In the first of five readings in this part, I document and review an array of first-generation landscape suitability approaches that have served as models for the development of subsequent approaches in “The First Landscape-Suitability Approach” from Ecological Planning: A Historical and Comparative Synthesis (2002). Landscape suitability is used to ascertain the fitness of a tract of land for a particular use (figure 4-1).
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Forster Ndubisi, “The First Landscape-Suitability Approach,” Ecological Planning: A Historical and Comparative Synthesis (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
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John Tillman Lyle, Design for Human Ecosystems: Landscape, Land Use, and Natural Resources (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985). (Republished, Island Press, 1999).
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These guidelines and principles are action-oriented and primarily serve to resolve problems, including the search for optimal uses of the landscape. Procedural frameworks rarely exist in a vacuum. In some cases, they may be intricately linked with action-oriented guidelines. We have encountered a situation with regard to these articles, where the dichotomy between substantive and procedural frameworks is not fine-grained. Because the principles are action-oriented and serve as a foundation for planning and design action, I lean more in favor of discussing them under procedural theory rather than substantive theory.
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V. H. Dale, S. Brown, R. A. Haeuber, N. T. Hobbs, N. Huntley, R. J. Naiman, W. E. Riebsame, M. G. Turner, and T. J. Valone, “Ecological Principles and Guidelines for Managing the Use of Land,” Ecological Applications 10, no. 3 (2000): 639–70.
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Richard T. T. Forman, “Basic Principles for Molding Land Mosaics,” in Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond The City (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
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Jack Ahern, Elizabeth Leduc, and Mary Lee York, Biodiversity Planning and Design: Sustainable Practices (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007).
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Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd, “Emerging Precepts of Ecological Design,” in From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1993, first published in 1984).
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Pliny Fisk III and Lovleen Gill Aulakh, Ecobalance: A Sustainable Land Use Planning and Design Methodology (Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, 2009). http://www.cmpbs.org.
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David Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004).
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John Brinckerhoff Jackson, “How to Study Landscape,” in The Necessity of Ruins and Other Topics (Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), 113–26.
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Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, accessed October, 25, 2013, http://www.cmpbs.org.
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Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd, “Emerging Precepts of Ecological Design.”
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Ibid.
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Ndubisi, “The First Landscape-Suitability Approach,” 147.
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Ndubisi, F.O. (2014). Introduction to Part Four. In: Ndubisi, F.O. (eds) The Ecological Design and Planning Reader. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-491-8_22
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