S. Missall, M. Welp, N. Thevs, A. Abliz, and Ü. Halik Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China Faculty of Mathematics and Geog...

Non-participation in landscape planning presents a formidable challenge to sustainable development. We hypothesize that even when people hold egative attitudes toward unplanned development, natural property rights values (favorable evaluations of property as an inviolable and pre-political ight) prevent them from acting on their concerns. We chose an intermountain west community as a case study...

In the broad area of life sciences Landscaping can minimize the visual and physical impact of a building or development through masking the bulk and scale, and affect the microclimate, such as reducing the heat of the summer sun and absorbing storm water. A good understanding of the site and its surrounds is essential for a successful landscape design. Site analysis puts the site in its context...

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...

The rapid expansion of urban construction land has become the major characteristic of urban land-use change in China today. Meanwhile, the rapid urbanization process has led to the great changes of urban landscape in China, and it also has had certain impacts on environmental factors such as climate, soil, hydrology, biodiversity, etc., then it has made the overall ecological environment deteri...

This paper offers an ecologically-based view of land and land value, buildin,0 upon the muftiproducr nature of e&systems and upon landscape ecology. The paper qu&.ions the ability of markets to create optimal landscap&‘even when traditionhl methods of internalizing externalities are appli&d, ;and concludes that-&emptin g a tomplere valuation of’ ecosystem; is’ quixoric: Achieving sustainable la...

The need for sustainable development has been widely recognized and sustainable development has become a hot topic of various disciplines even though the role of ergonomics in it is seldom reported or considered. This study conducts a systematic survey of research publications in the fields of ergonomics and sustainable development over the past two decades (1992-2011), in order to identify the...

The Biosphere Reserve (BR) concept aims at encouraging sustainable development (SD) towards sustainability on the ground by promoting three core functions: conservation, development, and logistic support. Sweden and Ukraine exemplify the diverse governance contexts that BRs need to cope with. We assessed how the BR concept and its core functions are captured in national legislations. The result...

Our understanding of the effects of landscape structure on ecosystem services (ES) remains at a very early stage, despite a large body of literature on the effects of the composition and configuration of natural land cover on some ES. Here, I argue that a comprehensive understanding of the effects of landscape structure on ES requires us to reconsider what constitutes landscape structure for ES...

This paper investigates the spatial heterogeneity of three landscapes along an altitudinal gradient and different human land use. The main aim was the identification of appropriate landscape indicators using different extents. ASTER image was used to create a land cover map consisting of three landscapes which differed in altitude and land use. A number of landscape metrics quantifying patch co...