Creating Resilient Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change

Global Case Studies and Real-World Solutions
Herausgeber: Rastandeh, Amin; Jarchow, Meghann

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Produktbeschreibung

This book delivers a realistic and feasible framework for creating resilient landscapes in an era of anthropogenic climate change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781032210377
• ISBN-10: 1032210370
• Artikelnr.: 65935700

Autorenporträt

Amin Rastandeh is a landscape analyst, with experience in the United States, New Zealand, and Iran, working on human-environmental interactions and climate change in evolving multifunctional landscapes. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sustainability and Environment at the University of South Dakota, United States. He specializes in multi-scale design and management of landscapes for safeguarding biodiversity and human communities in the face of climate change. Meghann Jarchow is chair and associate professor in the Department of Sustainability and Environment at the University of South Dakota, United States. Her expertise includes taking a place-based approach to working toward greater sustainability including serving as chair of Greening Vermillion, president of Spirit Mound Historic Prairie, and board Member of EcoSun Prairie Farms.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Landscape Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: A Call to Transition
from Despair to Hope 2. Multifunctional Land Consolidations in Denmark:
Rethinking the Pattern of Landownership to Create Resilient Future
Landscapes 3. Resilient Food Production - Resilient Landscapes: The Role of
Heterogeneity and Scale 4. Re-Developing Relationships with Landscapes for
Food, Water, and Energy Self-Sufficiency in Southeastern South Dakota, USA
5. A Social Perennial Vision for the North American Great Plains Rooted in
the Resilience of a Natural System-Inspired Agriculture 6. Resilient Food
Systems in the Context of Intersectional Discrimination: Successful
Strategies of Women and Indigenous Peoples in Mesoamerica 7. Improved
Grazing Management for Resilience and Ecosystem Services: The Case of Beef
Production Systems on the Campos Grasslands of South America 8. How Does
Gardening Reduce Vulnerability for the Urban Poor in Small Island
Developing States? A Case Study of Port Vila, Vanuatu 9. The Case of the
Khayelitsha Wetlands Park, South Africa: Securing Biodiversity and Social
Benefits from Urban Greenspace 10. Green Infrastructure in Hornsby NSW: A
Collaborative Method Toward Landscape Resilience 11. Satoyama Landscapes:
Creating Resilient Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes in Japan 12.
Shifting Concepts of Urban Landscape in Helsinki: From Primary Forests to
High Tech Nature-Based Solutions 13. Traditional Nature-Based Architecture
and Landscape Design: Lessons from Samoa and Wider Oceania 14. Estimation
of Spatiotemporal Variation in Potential Ecosystem Services: A Case Study
of Ayd¿n, Turkey 15. Scenario Based Thinking to Negotiate Coastal Squeeze
of Ecosystems: Green, Blue, Grey and Hybrid Infrastructures for Climate
Adaptation and Resilience 16. Utilization of Forest Landscapes for
Biodiversity Conservation in a Mediterranean Ecosystem: A Case Study of
Greece 17. Creating Resilient Landscapes: From a Hopeful Vision to a
Long-Lasting Existence