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Landscape Planning for Human Wellbeing in Asia

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 8159

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Katsunori Furuya

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Landscape Planning Laboratory, Chiba University, Matsudo, Chiba 271-8510, Japan
Interests: landscape planning; green spaces; post-COVID-19 condition; environmental planning; urban park
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Prof. Dr. Takahide Kagawa

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Landscape Planning Laboratory, Chiba University, Matsudo, Chiba 271-8510, Japan
Interests: shinrin-yoku; forest medicine; mental health; stress reduction; landscape planning; environmental planning; forest management; regional promotion; post COVID-19 condition
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Prof. Dr. Yiping Xia

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Institute of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: ornamental horticulture; bulbs; perennials; landscaping; planting design
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The complex interactions between humans and the natural environment shape today’s landscape to a large extent. On the other hand, landscapes are one of the factors that play a vital role in human well-being. Human well-being is a broad concept, incorporating a wide range of physical, mental, emotional, and social aspects. The influences of landscapes on human well-being are taking place in various contexts, including cities, parks, green spaces, traditional gardens, rural villages, and natural environments.

We would like to invite you to submit articles to our Special Issue.  This Special Issue aims to present research findings on landscape planning for pursuing human well-being in various countries, particularly in Asia.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Landscape preferences and mental restoration;
  • Restorative potential of urban blue space;
  • Residents’ motives for visiting urban green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • Urban parks’ roles during the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • Physiological and psychological effects;
  • Traditional ecological knowledge;
  • Spatial planning and sustainable development;
  • Residents’ perception of informal green space;
  • Impacts and residents’ attitudes to urban tourism;
  • The sustainable development of urban cultural heritage gardens;
  • Smart development in rural areas.

Prof. Dr. Katsunori Furuya
Prof. Dr. Takahide Kagawa
Prof. Dr. Yiping Xia
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • landscape planning
  • landscape architecture
  • landscaping
  • planting design
  • human wellbeing
  • forest management
  • regional promotion
  • land use/cover change
  • environmental history
  • environmental sustainability
  • geographic information technologies
  • human–nature interactions
  • evidence-based landscape practice
  • forest therapy
  • post-COVID-19 condition
  • green spaces
  • blue spaces

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Recreational Green Space Service in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: A Multiple Travel Modes Perspective
by Chen Weng, Jingyi Wang, Chunming Li, Rencai Dong, Chencan Lv, Yaran Jiao and Yonglin Zhang
Land 2022, 11(11), 2072; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11112072 - 17 Nov 2022
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Recreational green space (RGS) offers the most intuitive place for urban residents to get in touch with nature. The service radiation of RGS is related to the travel mode, however, residents’ travel behavior has long been ignored in the study of RGS services. [...] Read more.
Recreational green space (RGS) offers the most intuitive place for urban residents to get in touch with nature. The service radiation of RGS is related to the travel mode, however, residents’ travel behavior has long been ignored in the study of RGS services. This paper considers the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), uses multi-source data, refines the spatial distribution of residents, extracts and classifies the RGS into three categories (township (TRGS), country (CRGS), and urban (URGS)), and analyzes the spatial distribution of the three types of RGS. Using the travel isochrone, the RGS services coverage (including spatial and population coverage) in 11 cities within the GBA is defined by multiple travel modes. Finally, a comprehensive evaluation of the RGS services in the GBA is conducted based on the residents’ transportation choice willingness and recreational selection. The results showed that: (1) TRGSs are mainly distributed in the suburbs, URGSs are mainly concentrated in the mid-western and southern regions, and CRGSs are mostly concentrated in the center of the GBA. (2) For daily travel (15-min and 30-min travel modes), the coverage of the RGS services is unevenly distributed, while under the 60-min travel mode, the RGS services can almost fully cover the residents in the GBA (SPURGS > 99%). (3) The RGS service of the central cities (Hong Kong, Macau) is better than that of the edge cities (Zhaoqing, Jiangmen), and the different city types should adopt different RGS planning and management strategies. This study provides a reference for RGS refined planning and maintenance in mega-urban agglomerations. Full article
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Designing Perennial Landscapes: Plant Form and Species Richness Influence the Gaze Perception Associated with Aesthetic Preference
by Yangyang Shi, Jiao Zhang, Xinyue Shen, Liang Chen, Yunchen Xu, Rui Fu, Yang Su and Yiping Xia
Land 2022, 11(10), 1860; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101860 - 20 Oct 2022
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The up-close experience of perennial landscapes has been shown to enhance residents’ perception of naturalness in the context of increasing small-scale vegetation landscapes. This study explored how formal aesthetic characteristics were related to landscape perception and whether landscape preference correlated with eye movements. [...] Read more.
The up-close experience of perennial landscapes has been shown to enhance residents’ perception of naturalness in the context of increasing small-scale vegetation landscapes. This study explored how formal aesthetic characteristics were related to landscape perception and whether landscape preference correlated with eye movements. We created a series of photomontages showing perennial combinations that contained different plant forms, degrees of species richness, and plant arrangements and recorded 73 participants’ eye movements during 10 s of free viewing in Experiment A and task-oriented viewing in Experiment B and ratings of landscape preference collected through rating scales. We found that the effects of plant form and species richness were significant for gaze behavior, while arrangement showed no significant effect. We also found that landscape preference was positively correlated with fixation count but negatively correlated with mean fixation duration and total fixation duration. Additionally, women had more but shorter fixations than men while viewing these photomontages, and the difference in aesthetic preferences between men and women was not significant. Concerning the different professional background groups, no significant gaze behavior difference between professionals and nonprofessionals was detected, but compared with professionals, nonprofessionals tended to give strongly higher preference ratings. The outcomes shed light on the influence of formal aesthetic characteristics on gaze behavior and advanced the application of eye-tracking technology in perennial landscape studies. Our findings also confirmed the efficiency of vegetation landscapes designed based on public preferences for providing restoration from stress or fatigue. Full article
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Exploring the Interplay between Landscape Planning and Human Well-Being: A Scientometric Review
by Huixin Wang, Jing Xie, Shixian Luo, Duy Thong Ta, Qian Wang, Jiao Zhang, Daer Su and Katsunori Furuya
Land 2023, 12(7), 1321; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12071321 - 30 Jun 2023
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Numerous studies have indicated that proximity to nature positively affects human well-being. Landscape planning and related techniques have been widely implemented to achieve balance between natural environments and human society, thereby contributing to human well-being. This study examines peer-reviewed empirical research using scientometric [...] Read more.
Numerous studies have indicated that proximity to nature positively affects human well-being. Landscape planning and related techniques have been widely implemented to achieve balance between natural environments and human society, thereby contributing to human well-being. This study examines peer-reviewed empirical research using scientometric analysis and systematic review to clarify how landscape planning enhances human well-being. On analysing 439 documents, we found a significant increase in publications by multidisciplinary teams in this research area from 2016 to date. There was an uneven global distribution of publications, with most institutions cooperating within the same continent. These findings suggest the potential for greater international collaboration in the future. We identified three main research topics in this field, traced their dynamic development, and highlighted intangible values requiring attention. Moreover, we proposed a loop of ‘naturalness-landscape structures-landscape services-human well-being’ which includes four intermediary steps to illustrate how landscape planning can improve human well-being. This loop clarifies the pathway between landscape planning approaches and human well-being, thus providing a foundation for future research. Overall, this research highlights the conceptual pathways of landscape planning in promoting human well-being and calls for further investigation to fully understand this complex relationship. Full article
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