Creating Resilient Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change Global Case Studies and Real-World Solutions

• Main Authors: Rastandeh, Amin, Jarchow, Meghann
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2022; Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
• Subjects: Adelaide Central Business District; Agricultural science; Agriculture and farming; Applied ecology; Architecture; Biodiversity; Biodiversity > Climatic factors; C4 Grass Species; Civil engineering, surveying and building; Climate change; Coastal Squeeze; Collective Impact Framework; Conservation of the environment; Corine Land Cover; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ecological Intensification; Ecology; Effective Mesh Size; Environmental Conservation & Protection; Environmental management; Environmental policy and protocols; Fale Tele; Geography; Greek Forest; Green Infrastructure; Human geography; Interdisciplinary studies; Invasive Alien Plants; Kuils River; Land Consolidation; Land Consolidation Projects; Landscape; Landscape architecture; Landscape architecture and design; Landscape ecology; Landscape Resilience; Nature; North American Great Plains; NSW Government; Perameles Nasuta; Pollution and threats to the environment; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Satoyama Landscape; Social impact of environmental issues; Southeastern South Dakota; Southern Uruguay; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The Arts; The environment; UNC Library; Urban Agricultural; Urban Heat Island; Vegetation and climate; Landownership; Greek Forest; Potential Ecosystem Services; Ecological Intensification; NSW Government; North American Great Plains; Biodiversity; Resilient Food Systems; Collective Impact Framework; Urban Heat Island; Satoyama Landscape; Land Consolidation; Adelaide Central Business District; Land Consolidation Projects; Southern Uruguay; Effective Mesh Size; Coastal Squeeze; Green Infrastructure; Kuils River; Invasive Alien Plants; Corine Land Cover; Climate Change; Southeastern South Dakota; C4 Grass Species; Landscape Resilience; UNC Library; Perameles Nasuta; Fale Tele; Spatiotemporal Variation; Urban Agricultural
• ISBN: 9781000822946; 100082294X; 9781032210377; 1032210389; 1032210370; 9781032210384; 1000823008; 9781003266440; 9781000823004; 1003266444
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003266440

This 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 approaches discussed. The book emphasizes solution-oriented approaches for an "ecological hope" that can support landscape resiliency in this chaotic era, and the chapters consider the importance of envisioning an unpredictable future with numerous uncertainties. In this context, the key focus is on how we all can tackle the intertwined impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, and large-scale land-cover conversion in urban and non-urban landscapes, with particular attention to the concept of landscape resiliency. The volume provides that much-needed link between theory and practice to deliver forward-thinking, practical solutions. This book will be of great interest to students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers who are interested in the complex relationship between landscapes, climate change, biodiversity loss, and land-based conversion at local, national and global scales.