Journal
LAND
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/land10010016
Keywords
nature-based solutions; transition; regional planning; landscape management; future vision; circularity; resource management; biodiversity
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- Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality [KB-34A-007-008 1-2C-6, KB-36-005-006/008]
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This paper introduces a landscape-based planning approach to address regional spatial policy challenges, combining nature-based solutions and transition theory. Shared long-term future landscape vision serves as a powerful boundary concept to guide land transition, while cherishing abiotic differences enhances sustainable and resilient landscapes. The landscape-based approach enhances future-proof land-use transitions and co-creation in the social network is essential for shared solutions.
In a context of a rapidly changing livability of towns and countryside, climate change and biodiversity decrease, this paper introduces a landscape-based planning approach to regional spatial policy challenges allowing a regime shift towards a future land system resilient to external pressures. The concept of nature-based solutions and transition theory are combined in this approach, in which co-created normative future visions serve as boundary concepts. Rather than as an object in itself, the landscape is considered as a comprehensive principle, to which all spatial processes are inherently related. We illustrate this approach with three projects in the Netherlands in which landscape-based visions were used to guide the land transition, going beyond the traditional nature-based solutions. The projects studied show that a shared long-term future landscape vision is a powerful boundary concept and a crucial source of inspiration for a coherent design approach to solve today's spatial planning problems. Further, they show that cherishing abiotic differences in the landscape enhances sustainable and resilient landscapes, that co-creation in the social network is a prerequisite for shared solutions, and that a landscape-based approach enhances future-proof land-use transitions to adaptive, circular, and biodiverse landscapes.
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