Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Landscape Planning and Ecosystem Services: The Sum is More than the Parts

      • Christina von Haaren, Andrew A. Lovett, Christian Albert

      Pages 3-9

   3. Objectives and Structure of the Book

      • Christina von Haaren, Andrew A. Lovett, Christian Albert

      Pages 11-18

   4. Theories and Methods for Ecosystem Services Assessment in Landscape Planning

      • Christina von Haaren, Andrew A. Lovett, Christian Albert

      Pages 19-42

   5. The Basis of Evaluation: Legal, Economic and Social Values

      • Christina von Haaren, Andrew A. Lovett

      Pages 43-63

   6. Data Sources for Assessments

      • Andrew A. Lovett, Gisela Sünnenberg

      Pages 65-75

   7. Using GIS in Landscape Planning

      • Daniela Kempa, Andrew A. Lovett

      Pages 77-88

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Ecosystem Services Under Pressure

      • Felix Kienast, Julian Helfenstein, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Roy Haines-Young, Marion Potschin

      Pages 91-101

   3. European Union Policies and Standards as Drivers for Ecosystem Service Provision and Impairment

      • Christian Schleyer, Sylvia Herrmann, Irene Bouwma, Eeva Primmer, Klara J. Winkler

      Pages 103-121

   4. Assessing Pressures in Landscape Planning

      • Christian Albert, Rodrigo Caracciolo Martins, Andrew A. Lovett

      Pages 123-133

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Assessing Productive Capacities of Agro-Ecosystems

      • Jan Bug

      Pages 137-152

   3. Catchment Water Resources

      • Richard J. Cooper, Kevin M. Hiscock

      Pages 153-178

   4. Renewable Energy Production Capacities and Goods

      • Claudia Palmas, Michael Rode, Andrew A. Lovett

      Pages 179-192

   5. Regional Climate Regulation Capacities

      • Hermann Klug, Steffen Reichel

      Pages 193-203

   6. Greenhouse Gas Storage and Sequestration Function

      • Amy Thomas, Catharina Schulp

      Pages 205-219

   7. Landscape Aesthetics Capacity as a Cultural Ecosystem Service

      • Sónia Carvalho Ribeiro, Olaf Schroth, Eva Konkoly-Gyuró, Johannes Hermes, Thiemen Boll, Christina von Haaren

      Pages 221-252

   8. Geodiversity: The Natural Support System of Ecosystems

      • Jenni A. Turner

      Pages 253-265

Human well-being depends in many ways on maintaining the stock of natural resources which deliver the services from which human’s benefit. However, these resources and flows of services are increasingly threatened by unsustainable and competing land uses.  Particular threats exist to those public goods whose values are not well-represented in markets or whose deterioration will only affect future generations. As market forces alone are not sufficient, effective means for local and regional planning are needed in order to safeguard scarce natural resources, coordinate land uses and create sustainable landscape structures.

 

This book argues that a solution to such challenges in Europe can be found by merging the landscape planning tradition with ecosystem services concepts. Landscape planning has strengths in recognition of public benefits and implementation mechanisms, while the ecosystem services approach makes the connection between the status of naturalassets and human well-being more explicit. It can also provide an economic perspective, focused on individual preferences and benefits, which helps validate the acceptability of environmental planning goals. Thus linking landscape planning and ecosystem services provides a two-way benefit, creating a usable science to meet the needs of local and regional decision making.

 

The book is structured around the Driving forces-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses framework, providing an introduction to relevant concepts, methodologies and techniques. It presents a new, ecosystem services-informed, approach to landscape planning that constitutes both a framework and toolbox for students and practitioners to address the environmental and landscape challenges of 21^st century Europe. 

• Ecosystem services
• Environmental planning
• Landscape design
• Landscape ecology
• Landscape planning
• Landscape services
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  Christina von Haaren, Christian Albert

• School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

  Andrew A. Lovett

Christina von Haaren is Professor of Landscape Planning and Nature Conservation at the Institute of Environmental Planning at Leibniz Universität Hannover. She has been working for decades on landscape planning theories and methods and is especially interested in the implementation of sustainable agriculture and renewable energies 

Christian Albert is Junior Professor of Landscape Planning and Ecosystem Services at the Institute of Environmental Planning at Leibniz Universität Hannover. He has expertise in the theories and methods of landscape planning, ecosystem services, and sustainability science 

Andrew Lovett is Professor of Geography in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is a specialist in Geographical Information Systems, with interests in catchment management, energy system transitions and natural capital

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