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...

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Published in:Land (Basel) 2021-01, Vol.10 (1), p.16
Main Authors: van Rooij, Sabine, Timmermans, Wim, Roosenschoon, Onno, Keesstra, Saskia, Sterk, Marjolein, Pedroli, Bas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biodiversity
circularity
Cities
Climate change
Drought
External pressure
future vision
Innovations
Land use
Landscape
landscape management
nature-based solutions
Regional planning
Rural areas
Social networks
Social organization
transition
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2073-445X
2073-445X
DOI:10.3390/land10010016