Abstract
Landscape researchers and practitioners, using the lens of sustainability science, are breaking new ground about how people's behaviors and actions influence the structure, function, and change of designed landscapes in an urbanizing world. The phrase-the scientific basis of the design for landscape sustainability-is used to describe how sustainability science can contribute to translational landscape research and practice about the systemic relationships among landscape sustainability, people's contact with nature, and complex place-based problems. In the first section of this article, important definitions about the scientific basis of the design for landscape sustainability are reviewed including the six Es of landscape sustainability environment, economic, equity, aesthetics, experience, and ethics. A conceptual framework about the six Es of landscape sustainability for designed landscapes is introduced. The interrelatedness, opportunities, contradictions, and limitations of the conceptual framework are discussed in relation to human health/security, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and resource management. The conceptual framework about the six Es of landscape sustainability for designed landscapes follows the tradition in which landscape researchers and practitioners synthesize emerging trends into conceptual frameworks for advancing basic and applied activities.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 993-1013 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Landscape Ecology |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments This article was inspired by a half-day symposium held at the 2007 World Congress of Landscape Ecology in Wageningen, the Netherlands that was organized by Laura Musacchio and Jianguo Wu. Several reviewers provide very helpful comments during the development of this article. In addition, this effort was made possible by my Dayton Hudson Fellowship and international travel grant from the University of Minnesota.
Keywords
- Biodiversity conservation
- Complex place-based problems
- Coupled human and natural systems
- Designed landscapes
- Globalization
- Human-nature interactions
- Landscape sustainability
- Sustainability science
- Translational landscape research and practice
- Urbanization
