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Creative management: a framework for designing multifunctional play biotopes - lessons from a Scandinavian landscape laboratory
Most children grow up in urbanised settings with a low possibility to experience biodiversity and nature. However, experiencing nature and other...
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Templates for multifunctional landscape design
ContextIn climate-smart landscapes people manage land use for integrating sustainable production, climate change adaptation and mitigation. The...
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Impacts of urban-rural integration on landscape patterns and their implications for landscape sustainability: The case of Changsha, China
ContextLandscape patterns result from complex social-ecological interactions, such as urban-rural integration which is especially notable in China....
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Multifunctional landscapes for enhanced ecosystem benefits and productive agriculture in the southeastern US
ContextAgricultural landscapes across the southeastern US are typically managed with little consideration for landscape scale ecosystem function...
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Multifunctional Ecological Networks as Framework for Landscape and Spatial Planning in Italy
Faced with increasingly frequent environmental emergencies and related challenges (climate change, biodiversity loss, natural habitat destruction and...
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Landscape Metrics and Land-Use Patterns of Energy Crops in the Agricultural Landscape
Energy crops are a new player in the traditional agricultural landscape. The present paper analyses the land uses surrounding and the spatial...
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Restoration of Multifunctional Cultural Landscapes Merging Tradition and Innovation for a Sustainable Future
This book offers perspectives on how to develop a sustainable global balance of urbanization, land-use intensification, land abandonment, and...
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Ecological intensification: multifunctional flower strips support beneficial arthropods in an organic apple orchard
Flower strips are a fundamental part of agri-environment schemes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Although vegetation is central for many...
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What can be learned from using participatory landscape scenarios in Rio Doce State Park, Brazil?
ContextThe goal of this work is to describe and explain the conditions that trigger, enable or prevent the implementation of preferred land uses by...
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Guiding Multifunctional Landscape Changes Through Collaboration: Experiences from a Danish Case Study
In this chapter, we analyze and discuss outcomes of a collaborative landscape planning process carried out over a long period and involving different...
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Broad functional landscape of geminivirus-encoded C4/AC4 protein
Geminiviruses induce severe developmental abnormalities in crops and cause severe economic losses worldwide. Owing to the limited coding capacity of...
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Basin Approach as a Tool for Landscape Assessment and Planning
Purpose of ReviewIn this paper, I review the interplay between landscape and basin structures in Russian landscape geography, landscape ecology,...
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Percolating spatial scale effects on the landscape connectivity of urban greenspace network in Bei**g, China
The construction of an urban green network is increasingly recognized as an effective spatial approach to counteract landscape fragmentation through...
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Landscape conservation in the natural-rural interface. A social-ecological approach in Natural Parks of Andalusia (Spain)
ContextMultifunctional rural landscapes are social-ecological systems that represent a link between nature and culture. They are characterized by the...
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Identifying a green infrastructure to prioritise areas for restoration to enhance the landscape connectivity and the provision of ecosystem services
IntroductionHabitat fragmentation is one of the major causes of the loss of biodiversity that our planet is experiencing. This has affected the...
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Landscape Structure, Functions and Biodiversity
The concept of landscapes, such as agricultural landscapes, landscape approaches, landscape scale, cultural landscapes, and multifunctional...
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Landscape context importance for predicting forest transition success in central Panama
ContextNaturally recovering secondary forests are frequently re-cleared before they can recover to pre-disturbance conditions. Identifying landscape...
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Sustainable landscape pattern: a landscape approach to serving spatial planning
ContextSpatial planning system needs the support of approaches toward achieving sustainability, with sustainable landscape pattern (SLP) for one...
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Integrated framework of rural landscape research: based on the global perspective
ContextIn recent years, rural landscapes have played an increasingly important role in the fields of tourism, cultural heritage and ecology. Rural...
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Common Property in Europe: Landscape Design Evolution Over Time
The term “commons” is used today to indicate a set of land property models, use or management of resources based on a fundamental element: namely...