Special Issue "Quantifying Landscape for Sustainable Land Use Planning"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2021).

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Szymon Chmielewski
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Department of Grassland and Landscape Studies, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
Interests: visual landscape; landscape ecology; visibility analysis; visual pollution, land use and land cover chnges; land use planning; geodesign; 3D-GIS & remote sensing; crowdsourcing; citizen science
Dr. Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
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1) NeuroLandscape Foundation, Suwalska 8/78, 03-252 Warsaw, Poland
2) Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech) MD6, 14 Medical Drive, #14, Singapore 117599, Singapore
Interests: landscape; architecture; design; urban; mental health; well-being; design; neuroscience; eeg; contemplative; environment; neuroscience; brain
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Dr. Mahyar Masoudi
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Guest Editor
Department of Architecture in the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Interests: environmental, ecological and social impacts of urbanization; ecosystem services & nature-based solutions; distribution of ecosystem services from the environmental justice perspective to ensure that all citizens are benefiting from the benefits of nature equitably; development of scaled indicators in order to quantify spatial pattern and its relationship with ecological, environmental and social processes across a range of scales
Dr. Magdalena Szczepańska
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Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
Interests: landscape architecture; cultural landscape; green areas; urban agriculture; rural areas; tourism and recreation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The landscape is a resource that determines the environmental quality and people's well-being at scales that are larger to be addressed by local, sectorial stakeholders. In this special issue, we first intend to outline the visual landscape analysis and its implications for sustainable land use planning strategies. Further, we intend to present recent methods, concepts and reviews which found their way to landscape aesthetics, citizen well-being, visual design in the landscape, urban space revitalizations as well as landscape co-design and public participation frameworks.

According to the European Landscape Convention (ELC-2000), landscape is an important component of people's lives, however, civilization development and land consumption pose a number of threats to this multi-dimensional resource. Thus, landscape and its physiognomy protection require a  land use planning which adopts an integrated socio-ecological-technological approach and carefully considers sustainable development goals (SDGs). Such an integrated, multi-faceted and holistic approach is believed to be able to address the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders and create landscapes that are ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable. Despite an increasing body of knowledge on landscape ecology (e.g. landscape diversity, connectivity), there is still a lack of research focusing on landscape analysis that helps quantify and characterize the visual landscape resources, specifically landscape physiognomy and visual character. Sustainable management and conservation of aforementioned visual resources, means ensuring the attainment and continued of human aesthetic needs, cultural identity and well-being for the present and future generations.

At this point, we would like to invite all authors whose research concerns landscape analysis with implications for sustainable land use planning. The special issue emphasises the visual landscape, landscape character assessment, landscape services, nature-based solutions which could be useful for decision making in the context of land use planning and sustainable cities development. We welcome all theoretical, methodological and practical (both qualitative and quantitative) research that examines landscape approaches to sustainable land use planning. Since geoinformatics and GeoWeb plays a key role in the landscape analysis, we especially welcome approaches incorporating GIS and remote sensing data into method workflow.  Regarding socio-ecological issues of the landscape, the crowdsourcing and citizen science as well as data mining approaches would be warmly welcomed too. We also encourage the discussion and reviews of legal solutions for landscape protection in accordance with ELC-2000 and SDGs.

We would like to invite colleagues to submit articles about their recent research on any of the following topics but not restricted to:

  • landscape analysis
  • sustainable land use planning and landscape management
  • landscape services
  • landscape character assessment and landscape units
  • landscape visibility and visual impact assessment
  • quantitative approaches to landscape design
  • nature-based solutions
  • edible landscape and urban agriculture
  • effectiveness of revitalization strategies
  • environmental, ecological and social impacts of land use planning
  • urban and rural landscapes’ effects on individual and community health
  • co-design and participatory mapping in landscape research
  • applications of citizen science in landscape research and success stories with GeoWeb
  • geoprocessing tools and algorithms for landscape analysis
  • use of remote sensing data in landscape analysis
  • the theory of landscape sustainability

Dr. Szymon Chmielewski
Dr. Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
Dr. Mahyar Masoudi
Dr. Magdalena Szczepańska
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • landscape studies
  • sustainable land use planning
  • landscape character assessment
  • landscape quality assessment
  • public perception of the landscape
  • public participation in land use planning
  • landscape design
  • landscape visualization

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Sonic Tomograph as a Tool Supporting the Sustainable Management of Historical Greenery of the UMCS Botanical Garden in Lublin
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9451; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169451 - 23 Aug 2021
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The mission of botanical gardens is to work towards the conservation and sustainable use of plant diversity. In the case of gardens established on the premises of former manor estates, actions are also being taken to properly manage existing natural resources, e.g., historic [...] Read more.
The mission of botanical gardens is to work towards the conservation and sustainable use of plant diversity. In the case of gardens established on the premises of former manor estates, actions are also being taken to properly manage existing natural resources, e.g., historic tree stands. This article is based on the case study of the Botanical Garden in Lublin. To assess the health condition of the trees growing in the oldest part of the park—Kościuszko Redoubt—sonic tomography examinations were performed. The article presents the practical application of a newer form of digital imaging, put to the service of assessing the health of old trees in an important public space. The Redoubt is the only work of defense architecture in Poland related to the activity of General Tadeusz Kościuszko, the hero of Poland and the United States of America. It has survived in an excellent condition, preserved without significant changes, as an earth structure with ramparts; an interior, i.e., a yard; a cannon post located on an inaccessible cliff; and a brick basement serving as a shelter for soldiers and a warehouse. The entire surroundings also survived: ravines masked with a wild green, embankments with a safe hidden access road to the Redoubt, and a shaped defense line. The Botanical Garden area is located in the Sławinek district, in the valley of the Czechówka River, and includes a fragment of it and the slope adjacent to the west, cut by three loess ravines. The Botanical Garden was established in 1965, where there was a manor farm earlier, and then in the 19th century, a spa that was destroyed during World War I and II. Good soils and a varied microclimate provide the right ecological conditions for the high biodiversity of plants. With an area of 21.15 ha, the Garden area has the character of a landscape park with the theme of a manor garden from the turn of the 18th/19th century and a spa garden. The primary purpose of the work was to investigate the effectiveness of the use of computer tools in the sustainable management of historical greenery in the Botanical Garden. Research has shown that diagnostics with the use of sound waves allow for an accurate diagnosis and quick protective measures against the tree, improving the safety of visitors to the botanical garden. Moreover, the obtained results and a historical query were used to prepare an application to recognize Redoubt as a monument. Full article
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A Landscape Persistence Assessment of Częstochowa Upland: A Case Study of Ogrodzieniec, Poland
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6408; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116408 - 04 Jun 2021
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Landscape permanence is understood as the temporal extent of the dominance of a given type of landscape, expressed by the temporal continuity of its use. This issue, already being the subject of much research, is important in proper landscape protection and management. In [...] Read more.
Landscape permanence is understood as the temporal extent of the dominance of a given type of landscape, expressed by the temporal continuity of its use. This issue, already being the subject of much research, is important in proper landscape protection and management. In this paper, spatial landscape persistence and persistence of particular landscape types are presented for the Ogrodzieniec municipality, Częstochowa Upland, Poland. In addition, a background of landscape types and their changes in the Częstochowa Upland has been presented. Based on current and historical topographic maps, landscape types (forest, agriculture, settlement, fortified and industrial) were identified for the following studied periods: 1831, 1944, 1965, 2007, 2014 and 2020. After overlapping the maps, the persistence index was calculated, and isochrones of landscape persistence were determined. The term ‘landscape isochrones’ introduced in this paper is defined as theoretical lines of equal landscape time duration (iso-persistence line). The results show that the landscape of Ogrodzieniec can be considered to be persistent. The largest area of the municipality is occupied by the most permanent landscapes dating from before 1831. The most persistent is the fortified landscape. The method applied is important for planning sustainable development of the region, which is currently under intense tourist and economic pressure. Full article
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