Analyzing Transregional Vernacular Cultural Landscape Security Patterns with a Nature–Culture Lens: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Area, China

Cultural landscape security is important to national spatial and cultural security. However, compared with the many achievements in study of ecological security, transregional research lacks enough attention match its importance. In context advocacy ‘connecting practices’ between nature culture field international heritage conservation, this paper developed an approach for constructing vernacular patterns identifying key protected areas. A method put forward based on case Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Area, one fastest urbanizing regions China, included following three steps: (1) analyze core values from a long-time series multi-scale perspective; (2) integrate assessment value evaluation by combining qualitative quantitative methods; (3) build comprehensive pattern identify areas develop zoning grading conservation strategy toolkit. The results proved that our new could effectively cross-regional network integrated functional relationships historical natural have great significance improving level territorial governance.