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The Role of Landscape Perspective for Environmental Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 7087

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Irene Petrosillo

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Laboratory of Landscape Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Interests: landscape ecology; ecosystem services; environmental management; ecological indicators
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Prof. Maria Laura Carranza

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Envix-Lab, Department of Bioscience and Territory, University of Molise, 86090 Pesche, IS, Italy
Interests: landscape ecology; remote sensing; conservation biology; long term ecological monitoring; ecosystem services; biological invasions; climate change
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It has been recognized that ecosystems and landscapes are the two main spatial units in ecological research, though their concepts often remain vague and overlap when it comes to environmental management purposes. However, the landscape perspective seems more appropriate when dealing with sustainable resource management. Therefore, this Special Issue aims at conceptualizing and discussing the effects of landscape composition and configuration on the space lived, perceived, and managed by humans, with specific reference to the provision of landscape services, taking into account the possible synergies and trade-offs among the provision of services as well as the appropriate spatiotemporal scales. The present Special Issue aims to gather a series of conceptual and empirical manuscripts highlighting that the landscape perspective represents an added value in managing natural resources and enhancing human wellbeing. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of a rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Prof. Maria Laura Carranza
Prof. Dr. Irene Petrosillo
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Spatial pattern
  • Landscape services
  • Sustainable management
  • Landscape biodiversity conservation
  • Landscape composition and configuration
  • Multiscale management

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Innovation and Development: An Analysis of Landscape Construction Factors in Quanzhou Maritime Silkroad Art Park
by Linze Chen, Junhan Liu and Yang Zhao
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3157; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15043157 - 09 Feb 2023
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From the perspective of tourists, this paper takes Quanzhou Maritime Silkroad Art Park as the research object to study the botanical landscape factors concerned with tourists in the theme park. Through a questionnaire survey, and combined with interviews, the collected results were scientifically [...] Read more.
From the perspective of tourists, this paper takes Quanzhou Maritime Silkroad Art Park as the research object to study the botanical landscape factors concerned with tourists in the theme park. Through a questionnaire survey, and combined with interviews, the collected results were scientifically analysed using the data. According to the statistical results, the factors of plant landscape construction in the theme park concerned with tourists were summarised, extracted, and named, which were “plant landscape healing”, “plant landscape culture”, “plant landscape continuity”, “plant landscape spatial sense”, and “plant landscape aesthetic sense”. Through an in-depth analysis of the five common factors of the construction of modern theme park plant landscapes, this study creatively centred on the construction of theme park landscapes and established a scientific evaluation system, combined with the development and construction of the park, and put forward innovative and constructive suggestions based on the summary and analysis results. It provides a scientific reference for plant landscape construction in other theme parks. Full article
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Defining Natural Landscape Qualities of the Southern Part of the Krka National Park in Croatia
by Lara Bogovac, Monika Kamenečki, Petra Pereković, Ines Hrdalo and Dora Tomić Reljić
Sustainability 2021, 13(23), 13485; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su132313485 - 06 Dec 2021
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The paper is based on a review of the established principles for evaluating the natural qualities of landscapes and developing procedures that can contribute to current methods, upgraded with indicators derived from the perception and attitudes of the public. They were implemented into [...] Read more.
The paper is based on a review of the established principles for evaluating the natural qualities of landscapes and developing procedures that can contribute to current methods, upgraded with indicators derived from the perception and attitudes of the public. They were implemented into an integrated model of natural landscape qualities. The method included modeling of the natural landscape qualities for the southern part of the Krka National Park in Croatia. The first evaluation model was based on a survey whose responses were processed and classified using the AHP method and GIS. The results showed that the respondents recognize the diversity of land cover and relief forms and the degree of their fragmentation as the highest natural landscape quality. The second step included overlapping the vulnerability model of natural landscape qualities and the model of perception of natural qualities. It was found that the implementation of perceived natural qualities in the evaluation process affects the model of vulnerability of landscape quality. It also indicates the possibility of implementing the perceived natural qualities of certain landscape types into the complete landscape evaluation process, which encompasses all values in the space, including human perception. Therefore, the whole procedure pointed out the importance of the implementation of perceived values into landscape evaluation, something which is also emphasized by the European Landscape Convention (ELC). Full article
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Landscape Characteristics Based on Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossing Structures in South Korea
by Hyunjin Seo, Chulhyun Choi, Kyeongjun Lee and Donggul Woo
Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 675; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13020675 - 12 Jan 2021
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Roads are notable and responsible for the loss of biodiversity and disruption of wildlife habitats connectivity. Wildlife crossing structures (WCS) help wildlife move between habitats by connecting fragmented habitats. Their effectiveness is affected by various factors. Here, to identify methods for improving the [...] Read more.
Roads are notable and responsible for the loss of biodiversity and disruption of wildlife habitats connectivity. Wildlife crossing structures (WCS) help wildlife move between habitats by connecting fragmented habitats. Their effectiveness is affected by various factors. Here, to identify methods for improving the effectiveness of wildlife crossing structures, we controlled the effect of intrinsic factors, such as size, that are difficult to improve in an already installed area, and then, evaluated the differences in extrinsic factors using 12 landscape characteristics. Our results show that 18 wildlife crossing structures were selected with propensity-score (PS) matching method. The surrounding landscape characteristics differed between high-effectiveness wildlife crossing structures and low-effectiveness wildlife crossing structures. Particularly, there was a significant difference between the ‘statutory protected area’ and the ‘edge’ index of the morphological spatial pattern analysis among the landscape characteristic variables derived within 1 km2 of wildlife crossing structures. We empirically demonstrate that characteristics around highly effective WCS, statutory protected areas are widely distributed, and the ratio of edge of MSPA is low (within 1 km2). Therefore, an important outcome of our research is the demonstration that management of WCS itself is important, but conservation of surrounding habitats and landscape management plans are also significant. Full article
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