Description
Book SynopsisThis book delivers a realistic and feasible framework for creating resilient landscapes in an era of anthropogenic climate change.
From across six continents, this book presents fifteen case studies of differing sociocultural, economic, and biophysical backgrounds that showcase opportunities and limitations for creating resilient landscapes throughout the world. The potential to create socio-ecological resilience is examined across a wide range of landscapes, including agricultural, island, forest, coastal, and urban landscapes, across sixteen countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Samoa, South Africa, the United States, Turkey, Uruguay, and Vanuatu. Chapters discuss current and future issues around creating a sustainable food system, conserving biodiversity, and climate change adaptation and resilience, with green infrastructure, nature-based architecture, green-tech, and ecosystem services as just a few of the app
Table of Contents
1. Landscape Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: A Call to Transition from Despair to Hope 2. Multifunctional Land Consolidations in Denmark: Rethinking the Pattern of Landownership to Create Resilient Future Landscapes 3. Resilient Food Production – Resilient Landscapes: The Role of Heterogeneity and Scale 4. Re-Developing Relationships with Landscapes for Food, Water, and Energy Self-Sufficiency in Southeastern South Dakota, USA 5. A Social Perennial Vision for the North American Great Plains Rooted in the Resilience of a Natural System-Inspired Agriculture 6. Resilient Food Systems in the Context of Intersectional Discrimination: Successful Strategies of Women and Indigenous Peoples in Mesoamerica 7. Improved Grazing Management for Resilience and Ecosystem Services: The Case of Beef Production Systems on the Campos Grasslands of South America 8. How Does Gardening Reduce Vulnerability for the Urban Poor in Small Island Developing States? A Case Study of Port Vila, Vanuatu 9. The Case of the Khayelitsha Wetlands Park, South Africa: Securing Biodiversity and Social Benefits from Urban Greenspace 10. Green Infrastructure in Hornsby NSW: A Collaborative Method Toward Landscape Resilience 11. Satoyama Landscapes: Creating Resilient Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes in Japan 12. Shifting Concepts of Urban Landscape in Helsinki: From Primary Forests to High Tech Nature-Based Solutions 13. Traditional Nature-Based Architecture and Landscape Design: Lessons from Samoa and Wider Oceania 14. Estimation of Spatiotemporal Variation in Potential Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Aydın, Turkey 15. Scenario Based Thinking to Negotiate Coastal Squeeze of Ecosystems: Green, Blue, Grey and Hybrid Infrastructures for Climate Adaptation and Resilience 16. Utilization of Forest Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation in a Mediterranean Ecosystem: A Case Study of Greece 17. Creating Resilient Landscapes: From a Hopeful Vision to a Long-Lasting Existence
