Landscape Analysis, Planning and Regional Development

Dear Colleagues,

Landscape analysis and planning have been facing more and more challenging goals, with the rapid evolution of socioeconomic and environmental processes, the more and more strict connections between urban and rural areas and the increasing multifaceted nature of many landscapes, the increasing need of activating virtuous circular processes among the various landscape resources, the need of more and more integrated policies and plans at the various scales. Landscape identities and values represent strategic assets for regional development policies and programs, which must increasingly address the challenge of creating more inclusive and resilient societies, with the aim to increase the competitiveness of all regions. This poses both conceptual challenges related to the set-up of regional planning and development models, as well as methodological challenges about the implementation of plans, policies and programs.

The special issue addresses new challenges and cross-cutting issues in the Landscape Analysis and Planning and Regional Development domains, with reference both to rural, periurban and urban landscapes, and both everyday and outstanding or degraded landscapes, in line with the European Landscape Convention. The special issue welcomes papers addressing innovative approaches and frameworks in the landscape analysis and planning and regional development fields; papers focusing on new methodological and technological challenges for combining development, social, environmental and economic sustainability, and landscape protection and enhancement; papers addressing the analysis of territorial challenges and the identification of innovative site-specific territorial policies aimed at multi-level, multi-sectoral and evidence-based regional development, from cities to rural areas, at various territorial scales; papers about the evaluation of the impact of Landscape Planning and Regional Development policies and plans for urban and rural development, support to policy making and decision making. Papers can also focus on relevant territorial or subject-based case studies, comparative studies, studies using multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, integrated approaches considering the various landscape features and the various interconnected processes and actors, participatory processes and experiences involving different actors and sectors (public and private, citizens and associations, local and regional organizations and public administrations, etc.)

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sustainability.

Prof. Patrizia Tassinari
Prof. Daniele Torreggiani
Guest Editors

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• Landscape analysis and planning
• socioeconomic and environmental processes
• circular processes
• integrated policies and plans
• city and the countryside
• natural and cultural assets
• production and socio-economic processes
• landscape identity
• landscape values
• regional development policies and programs
• inclusive and resilient territories and societies
• approaches and frameworks
• methodological and technological challenges
• territorial development
• social, environmental and economic sustainability
• landscape protection and enhancement
• site-specific territorial policies
• interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches
• integrated plans and programs
• participatory processes
• multi-actor and multi-sector plans and programs
• policy making
• decision making