Land management in coastal areas has to cope with impacts of climate change and sea
level rise. In Germany, landscape plans assess and organize the spatial allocation of land …

Coastal zones with their natural and societal sub-systems are exposed to rapid changes and
pressures on resources. Scarcity of space and impacts of climate change are prominent …

Landscapes provide a broad range of ecosystem services that are crucial for many aspects
of human well-being. However, this provision is increasingly under threat from a variety of …

Green infrastructure (GI) is a strategic planning instrument to achieve sustainable
development. The main functions of GI are to protect biodiversity and safeguard and …

Scenarios are a tool to develop plausible, coherent visions about the future and to foster
anticipatory knowledge. We present the Sustainable Future Scenarios (SFS) framework and …

The way water flows and shapes the surface of the Earth, interacting with all forms of life, is
often used as the defining element of a landscape. Landscapes are 'lifescapes': the space …

This chapter introduces the key theoretical and methodological concepts for landscape
planning in Europe. A short portrait of landscape planning and its contribution to supporting …

Traditional cultural landscapes are of special value not only for reasons of nature
conservation and high species diversity but also because they intersect with the identity of …

In this course, we survey land use planning and management approaches for the major
environmental perspectives: natural systems and biodiversity, natural resources–water and …

The ecosystem approach (EA) has been widely adopted as an overarching principle of
marine spatial planning (MSP). However, this concept is variously understood and not …