Landscape-based visions as powerful boundary objects in spatial planning : Lessons from three dutch projects

In a context of a rapidly changing livability of towns and countryside, climate change and biodiversity decrease, this paper introduces a landscape-based planning approach to regional spatial policy challenges allowing a regime shift towards a future land system resilient to external pressures. The concept of nature-based solutions and transition theory are combined in this approach, in which co-created normative future visions serve as boundary concepts. Rather than as an object in itself, the landscape is considered as a comprehensive principle, to which all spatial processes are inherently related. We illustrate this approach with three projects in the Netherlands in which landscape-based visions were used to guide the land transition, going beyond the traditional nature-based solutions. The projects studied show that a shared long-term future landscape vision is a powerful boundary concept and a crucial source of inspiration for a coherent design approach to solve today’s spatial planning problems. Further, they show that cherishing abiotic differences in the landscape enhances sustainable and resilient landscapes, that co-creation in the social network is a prerequisite for shared solutions, and that a landscape-based approach enhances future-proof land-use transitions to adaptive, circular, and biodiverse landscapes.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	van Rooij, Sabine, Timmermans, Wim, Roosenschoon, Onno, Keesstra, Saskia, Sterk, Marjolein, Pedroli, Bas
Format:	Article/Letter to editor biblioteca
Language:	English
Subjects:	Biodiversity, Circularity, Future vision, Landscape management, Nature-based solutions, Regional planning, Resource management, Transition,
Online Access:	https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/landscape-based-visions-as-powerful-boundary-objects-in-spatial-p
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