Special Issue "The Role of Landscape Perspective for Environmental Management"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Irene Petrosillo
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Guest Editor
Laboratory of Landscape Ecology, Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Interests: landscape ecology; landscape services; natural capital; sustainability; socio-ecological landscapes
Prof. Dr. Maria Laura Carranza
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Guest Editor
Envix-Lab, Department of Bioscience and Territory, University of Molise, 86090 Pesche, Italy
Interests: landscape ecology; conservation biology; long-term ecological monitoring; drivers of biodiversity loss; ecosystem services assessment and mapping; remote sensing and spatial ecology; main ecosystem: coastal dunes and high mountain grasslands
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It has been recognized that ecosystems and landscapes are the two main spatial units in ecological research, though their concepts often remain vague and overlap when it comes to environmental management purposes. However, the landscape perspective seems more appropriate when dealing with sustainable resource management. Therefore, this Special Issue aims at conceptualizing and discussing the effects of landscape composition and configuration on the space lived, perceived, and managed by humans, with specific reference to the provision of landscape services, taking into account the possible synergies and trade-offs among the provision of services as well as the appropriate spatiotemporal scales. The present Special Issue aims to gather a series of conceptual and empirical manuscripts highlighting that the landscape perspective represents an added value in managing natural resources and enhancing human wellbeing. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of a rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Prof. Maria Laura Carranza
Prof. Dr. Irene Petrosillo
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • Spatial pattern
  • Landscape services
  • Sustainable management
  • Landscape biodiversity conservation
  • Landscape composition and configuration
  • Multiscale management

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Landscape Characteristics Based on Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossing Structures in South Korea
Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 675; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020675 - 12 Jan 2021
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Roads are notable and responsible for the loss of biodiversity and disruption of wildlife habitats connectivity. Wildlife crossing structures (WCS) help wildlife move between habitats by connecting fragmented habitats. Their effectiveness is affected by various factors. Here, to identify methods for improving the [...] Read more.
Roads are notable and responsible for the loss of biodiversity and disruption of wildlife habitats connectivity. Wildlife crossing structures (WCS) help wildlife move between habitats by connecting fragmented habitats. Their effectiveness is affected by various factors. Here, to identify methods for improving the effectiveness of wildlife crossing structures, we controlled the effect of intrinsic factors, such as size, that are difficult to improve in an already installed area, and then, evaluated the differences in extrinsic factors using 12 landscape characteristics. Our results show that 18 wildlife crossing structures were selected with propensity-score (PS) matching method. The surrounding landscape characteristics differed between high-effectiveness wildlife crossing structures and low-effectiveness wildlife crossing structures. Particularly, there was a significant difference between the ‘statutory protected area’ and the ‘edge’ index of the morphological spatial pattern analysis among the landscape characteristic variables derived within 1 km2 of wildlife crossing structures. We empirically demonstrate that characteristics around highly effective WCS, statutory protected areas are widely distributed, and the ratio of edge of MSPA is low (within 1 km2). Therefore, an important outcome of our research is the demonstration that management of WCS itself is important, but conservation of surrounding habitats and landscape management plans are also significant. Full article
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