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... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Sabine van Rooij
Wim Timmermans
Onno Roosenschoon
Saskia Keesstra
Marjolein Sterk
Bas Pedroli
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Reihe/Periodikum: Land, Vol 10, Iss 16, p 16 (2020)
Verlag/Hrsg.: MDPI AG
Schlagwörter: nature-based solutions / transition / regional planning / landscape management / future vision / circularity / Agriculture / S
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28989816
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010016

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.