Promoting sustainable landscape pattern for landscape sustainability

A Landscape Approach for Sustainability Science

and the Urban Environment, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3188-6_3, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Abstract The global life-support system for humans is in peril but no alternative to achieving sustainability is desirable. In response to this challenge, sustainability science has emerged in recent decades. In this chapter, I argue that to advance sustainability science a landscape appr...

Landscape pattern metrics

Landscape ecology, if not ecology in general, is largely founded on the notion that environmental patterns strongly influence ecological processes [1, 2]. The habitats in which organisms live, for example, are spatially structured at a number of scales, and these patterns interact with organism perception and behavior to drive the higher level processes of population dynamics and community stru...

Landscape Sustainability in a Sonoran Desert City

The objective of this paper is to discuss concepts of landscape sustainability in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Phoenix is situated in the greater Salt River Valley of the lower Sonoran Desert in the southwest United States. In this paper I use the ecological frameworks of ecosystem services and resiliency as a metric for understanding landscape sustainability. An assessment of landscape susta...

Spatial Modeling of Landscape Pattern

Combining Aesthetic with Ecological Values for Landscape Sustainability

Humans receive multiple benefits from various landscapes that foster ecological services and aesthetic attractiveness. In this study, a hybrid framework was proposed to evaluate ecological and aesthetic values of five landscape types in Houguanhu Region of central China. Data from the public aesthetic survey and professional ecological assessment were converted into a two-dimensional coordinate...