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A Landscape Approach for Sustainability Science

verfasst von : Jianguo (Jingle) Wu

Erschienen in: Sustainability Science

Verlag: Springer New York

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The global life-support system for humans is in peril but no alternative to achieving sustainability is desirable. In response to this challenge, sustainability science has emerged in recent decades. In this chapter, I argue that to advance sustainability science a landscape approach is essential. Landscapes represent a pivotal “place” in the place-based research and practice of sustainability. Landscape ecology, as the science and art of studying and influencing the relationship between spatial pattern and ecological processes at different scales, can play a critically important role in the development of sustainability science. Global sustainability cannot be achieved without most, if not all, landscapes being sustainable. As landscapes are spatial units in which society and nature interact and co-evolve, it is more useful and practical to define landscape sustainability based on resilience rather than stability. Furthermore, the development of landscape sustainability measures can be facilitated by integrating landscape pattern metrics and sustainable development indicators.

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Titel: A Landscape Approach for Sustainability Science
verfasst von: Jianguo (Jingle) Wu
Verlag: Springer New York
Buch: Sustainability Science
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-3187-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-3188-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3188-6_3

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