Landscape approaches have become en vogue in the past couple of decades. Originating
from nineteenth-century landscape geography, this renewed popularity since the 1980s is …

Habitat loss has been, and still is, the greatest threat to biodiversity (Brooks et al. 2002;
Hanski 2005; Groom et al. 2006). According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment …

The twenty-first century global population will be increasingly urban-focusing the
sustainability challenge on cities and raising new challenges to address urban resilience …

This chapter describes the history of the use of the word 'landscape'since its origin in
western culture and the emergence of its different meanings, as well as the research that …

▪ Abstract Landscape ecology focuses on the reciprocal interactions between spatial pattern
and ecological processes, and it is well integrated with ecology. The field has grown rapidly …

Climate change and habitat fragmentation are considered key pressures on biodiversity. In
this paper we explore the potential synergetic effects between these factors. We argue that …

Several studies show that agri-environment schemes (AES) are likely to be more effective if
they are designed at the landscape scale. However, this requires spatial coordination of …

Landscape ecology is in a position to become the scientific basis for sustainable landscape
development. When spatial planning policy is decentralised, local actors need to collaborate …

Fencing for conservation is an acknowledgement that we are failing to successfully coexist
with and, ultimately, conserve biodiversity. Fences arose during the Neolithic revolution to …

In this paper, we propose the ecological network concept as a suitable basis for inserting
biodiversity conservation into sustainable landscape development. For landscapes to be …