Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values
Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values

Author: Thora Amend

Publisher: Kasparek Verlag

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 3925064486

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Presents twelve case studies from different parts of the world illustrating the role Protected Landscapes are playing in conserving agrobiodiversity and related knowledge and practices. This title includes a synthesis that focuses on the key lessons to be learned from these case studies

Protected Landscapes
Protected Landscapes

Author: P.H.C. Lucas

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1992-06-30

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780412455308

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Many countries have areas with special natural qualities characterized by the harmonious interaction between resident populations and the land. This book sets out the varied approaches to establishing such areas as protected landscapes. It provides guidance on criteria for selection of landscapes, implementation, management and the legal measures involved if protection is to be achieved.

The Protected Landscape Approach
The Protected Landscape Approach

Author: Jessica Brown

Publisher: IUCN

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 2831707978

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The traditional patterns of land use that have created many of the world's cultural landscapes contribute to biodiversity, support ecological processes, provide important environmental services, and have proven sustainable over the centuries. Protected landscapes can serve as living models of sustainable use of land and resources, and offer important lessons for sustainable development. Examples of these landscapes and the diverse strategies needed to maintain this essential relationship between people and the land are provided.

The Economic Value of Landscapes
The Economic Value of Landscapes

Author: C. Martijn van der Heide

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-03

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1135125112

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This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, landscape governance and landscape perceptions from different countries. Merely saying that landscapes have value or are important is not sufficient – not when resources are scarce and have alternative uses. Measuring and quantifying the economic value of changes in landscapes would help ensure that landscape management decisions are both (economically) rational and sound.

Landscape and Sustainability
Landscape and Sustainability

Author: John Benson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2007-08-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 113413794X

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This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This second edition contains updated and new material reflecting developments during the last five years and comprehensively addresses the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability. Much in the text is underpinned by landscape ecology, in contrast to the idea of landscape as only appealing to the eye or aspiring cerebrally to be fine art. Landscape and Sustainability establishes that the sustainability agenda needs a new mindset among professionals: the driving question must always be ‘is it sustainable?’ Developing theory into practice, from the global to the local scale and from issues of policy and planning through to detailed design and implementation and on to long-term maintenance and management, the contributors raise and re-examine a complex array of research, policy and professional issues and agendas to contribute to the necessary ongoing debate about the future of both landscape and sustainability.