Basic and Clinical Environmental Approaches in Landscape Planning

✍ Scribed by Diedrich Bruns (auth.), Hiroyuki Shimizu, Akito Murayama (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 165
• Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives 17
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscape planning and design is at the core the holistic concept and it makes several contributions to achieving sustainability. First, landscape planning and design connects different spatial scales: from site to region to the planet. Second, it focuses on close interrelationships between human activities and nature. Third, it is concerned with people’s values toward their surroundings. This book is based on the presentations made by German and Japanese scholars at the international symposium “New Trends of Landscape Design: Seamless Connection of Landscape Planning and Design from Regional to Site Scales — The Cultural Context” held on November 5, 2012, at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Cultural Landscape: All That People Give Value to in Their Surroundings....Pages 3-13
Landscape Perception in Japan and Germany....Pages 15-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
New Trend of Landscape Planning and Design in Japan....Pages 27-56
Strategic Practice of Landscape Plan for Development Management with Local Governance in Japan....Pages 57-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Landscape Perception of Residents in the Nyu Village, Kushida-River—Including Proposal of a Satochi-Satoyama Connecting Zone....Pages 73-98
Landscape Sequence and Fluvial Ecosystem of the Kushida River with Particular Reference to Its Basin Geologic Heterogeneity....Pages 99-111
Planning Invisible Landscapes: Making Invisible Tidal Flat Landscapes Visible for Future Sustainability....Pages 113-131
A Prospect Toward Establishment of Basic and Clinical Environmental Studies by ORT (On-Site Research Training)....Pages 133-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
New Development in Landscape Planning: Report of the Germany–Japan Symposium and Suggestions on the Research and Practice to be Conducted in the Future....Pages 147-155
Back Matter....Pages 157-161

✦ Subjects

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Sustainable Development; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Energy Policy, Economics and Management