TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking landscape, land system and design approaches to achieve sustainability
AU - Wu, Jianguo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB954303]; National Science Foundation [NSF (DEB-1342757)]. I would like to thank the guest editors, Amy Frazier, Jacqueline Vadjunec, Peter Kedron, and Todd Fagin for inviting me to contribute to this special issue and for their constructive comments on the manuscript. I am grateful to Xuening Fang for his assistance with the preparation of Figure 2 and to two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. During the preparation of this manuscript, my research was supported by grants from NSF (DEB-1342757) and National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB954303).
PY - 2019/3/4
Y1 - 2019/3/4
N2 - Sustainability science is a use-inspired and place-based transdisciplinary enterprise that integrates natural and social sciences, engineering/design sciences, and humanities to produce actionable knowledge for improving human wellbeing while maintaining long-term environmental integrity. Regional landscapes represent a pivotal scale domain for studying and practicing sustainability because they integrate human-environment interactions, link local processes below and global patterns above, and provide a common platform for scientists, land designers/planners, policymakers, and stakeholders to collaborate on sustainability issues that resonate with all. An interdisciplinary confluence of ecological, geographical, and design/planning sciences is underway, but how this confluence can effectively contribute to the science and practice of sustainability is yet to be explored. Here I review landscape and land system-based approaches, including land change science, land system science, land system architecture, landscape ecology, landscape sustainability science, and geodesign, and discuss why and how they can be linked for achieving the common goal of sustainability.
AB - Sustainability science is a use-inspired and place-based transdisciplinary enterprise that integrates natural and social sciences, engineering/design sciences, and humanities to produce actionable knowledge for improving human wellbeing while maintaining long-term environmental integrity. Regional landscapes represent a pivotal scale domain for studying and practicing sustainability because they integrate human-environment interactions, link local processes below and global patterns above, and provide a common platform for scientists, land designers/planners, policymakers, and stakeholders to collaborate on sustainability issues that resonate with all. An interdisciplinary confluence of ecological, geographical, and design/planning sciences is underway, but how this confluence can effectively contribute to the science and practice of sustainability is yet to be explored. Here I review landscape and land system-based approaches, including land change science, land system science, land system architecture, landscape ecology, landscape sustainability science, and geodesign, and discuss why and how they can be linked for achieving the common goal of sustainability.
KW - Land change science
KW - land system architecture
KW - land system science
KW - landscape ecology
KW - landscape sustainability science
KW - sustainable geodesign
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U2 - 10.1080/1747423X.2019.1602677
DO - 10.1080/1747423X.2019.1602677
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064737729
SN - 1747-423X
VL - 14
SP - 173
EP - 189
JO - Journal of Land Use Science
JF - Journal of Land Use Science
IS - 2
ER -