- Title
- Landscape-based visions as powerful boundary objects in spatial planning: lessons from three Dutch projects
- Creator
- van Rooij, Sabine; Timmermans, Wim; Roosenschoon, Onno; Keesstra, Saskia; Sterk, Marjolein; Pedroli, Bas
- Relation
- Land Vol. 10, Issue 1, no. 16
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10010016
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- nature-based solutions; transition; regional planning; landscape management; future vision; circularity; resource management; biodiversity; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1433544
- Identifier
- uon:39280
- Identifier
- ISSN:2073-445X
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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