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Dissertation
Landscape ecological planning: a study of the principles and methods of landscape ecology and their application to the planning and management of rural land use change in britain
1999
Overview
Landscape ecology is recognised as a valuable basis for landscape planning in many countries. It has, hitherto, remained largely unknown to British planners. The increasing emphasis on the importance of planning for the 'wider countryside' and the move away from site based nature conservation in this country has lead to the recognition that there are a lack of tools for integrated land use planning currently available to British planners. This study aims to explore the nature of landscape ecology, its principles and application, to assess the transferability of existing approaches to the application of the discipline and evaluate its potential for landscape planning in this country. The first stage of the research involved the systematic analysis of international landscape ecological literature to determine the main principles and approaches to the application of the discipline. Discrete approaches to application were identified from the literature and three were selected for application in a case study area in Britain.The results of the indicative plans produced by application of the approaches to the Sherwood Forest Study Area were then evaluated by two expert panels; one comprising land use planners local to the study area, the second comprising national scientific experts. The research has found that distinct and different approaches to the application of landscape ecology can be identified and are potentially transferable, with some modifications, to other contexts. No one approach provided an optimum plan, but all had some degree of validity, indicating the possibility of developing 'off the shelf' solutions to landscape planning problems. Landscape ecology was perceived not only as having the potential to provide a toolkit for land use planners for planning in the 'wider countryside' but also as having a potentially important role in developing a dialogue between planning and science. Ongoing research into the scientific principles of the discipline and its applications and the education of politicians and planners are now required to firmly establish landscape ecology as an effective tool for landscape planning.
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