Description:
Landscape and Urban Planning is an international journal aimed at advancing conceptual, scientific, and applied understandings
of
landscape in order to promote
sustainable solutions for
landscape change. Landscapes are visible and integrative
social-ecological systems with variable spatial and temporal dimensions. They have expressive aesthetic, natural, and cultural qualities
that are perceived and valued by people in multiple ways and invite actions resulting in landscape change. Landscapes are increasingly
urban in nature and ecologically and culturally sensitive to changes at local through global scales. Multiple disciplines and perspectives
are required to understand landscapes and align social and ecological values to ensure the sustainability of landscapes. The journal
is based on the premise that landscape science linked to
planning and
design can provide mutually supportive outcomes for
people and nature.
Landscape science brings
landscape ecology and
urban ecology together with other disciplines
and cross-disciplinary fields to identify patterns and understand social-ecological processes influencing landscape change.
Landscape
planning brings landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape and ecological engineering, and other practice-oriented
fields to bear in processes for identifying problems and analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating desirable alternatives for landscape
change.
Landscape design brings plans, designs, management prescriptions, policies and other activities and form-giving products
to bear in effecting landscape change. The implementation of landscape planning and design also generates new patterns of evidence and
hypotheses for further research, providing an integral link with landscape science and encouraging transdisciplinary collaborations to
build robust knowledge and problem solving capacity.
