Sustainable landscapes and landscape sustainability: A tale of two concepts

Zhou, Benliang; Wu, Jianguo; Anderies, John M.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.05.005

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“…As mankind's efforts to attain sustainable development increase, each year sees more research studies into this topic [1]. Sustainability has received more attention in the past few decades, and has, increasingly, been incorporated into the agendas of policymakers and institutions, as well as into the strategies of companies.…”

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Twitter Analysis of Global Communication in the Field of Sustainability

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The increasing popularity of social media worldwide provides us with an opportunity to understand social, cultural, and environmental issues about people’s perception of sustainability. The article aims at identifying the main topics of communication related to hashtag # sustainability based on a communication analysis on the Twitter network. We investigated the perception of sustainability using data from 414,926 Twitter interactions by 223,476 users worldwide. The data were recorded between April 17, 2018 and July 12, 2019. We identified Innovation, Environment, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Technology, and Energy as key hashtags in the field of sustainability. In conjunction with this, we identified the six following communities: (1) Environmental Sustainability, (2) Sustainability Awareness, (3) Renewable Energy and Climate Change, (4) Innovative Technology, (5) Green Architecture, and (6) Food Sustainability. The usage of these communities is applicable in marketing communication as well as in the Corporate Social Responsibility activities of the given companies. The results of the analysis give the organizations a possible direction for their sustainable business model improvement via the contribution of society´s voice.

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Twitter Analysis of Global Communication in the Field of Sustainability

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“…Resilience assessment, as an instrument that can efficaciously support the management of SEPLs, has become a vital research subject of geography and landscape ecology [12][13][14]. It has been recognized by many scholars to construct a multi-level indicator framework to characterize the social-ecological system resilience.…”

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“…These conditions have greatly affected regional biodiversity conservation, community human well-being, and regional production development [9][10][11]. In a changing environment, maintaining and enhancing the social-ecological production landscape resilience (SEPLR) is the foundation of regional sustainable development [12,13]. Scientific and effective assessment of the SEPLR has become a core issue of increasing attention in contemporary geography, ecology, sociology, and interdisciplinary science [14][15][16].…”

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“…Resilience can be understood as the capacity of systems to maintain a basic structure and function after being disturbed, which emphasizes the adjustment and adaptation of human society in the context of environmental changes and provides a basic logical framework for the study of human-land relations [19][20][21]. The definition of SELPR is the capacity of SELPs to withstand disturbances without changing the system state [12,13,22]. Compared with traditional social-ecological resilience evaluation, the outstanding characteristics of SEPLR evaluation are represented by the spatial representation of landscape system elements and the quantitative characterization of resilience heterogeneity [23][24][25].…”

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Evolutionary Characteristics and Trade-Offs’ Development of Social–Ecological Production Landscapes in the Loess Plateau Region from a Resilience Point of View: A Case Study in Mizhi County, China

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Hai

Geng

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Social-ecological production landscape resilience (SELPR) is a significant representation of the continuous supply capacity of landscape services. It is a quantitative assessment of the spatial-temporal evolution of SELPR under internal and external disturbances that provides a scientific basis for regional ecological environments and socio–economic development. Taking Mizhi County for the study of the Loess Plateau region, a three-dimensional (social system, ecosystem, and production system) SELPR evaluation framework was constructed. Data integration was performed using the watershed as the evaluation unit. This study quantitatively evaluated the spatial–temporal differentiation of the social–ecological production landscape (SELPs) subsystem’s resilience and the total SELPR in the study area and classified the areas from the three-system resilience combination level to achieve regional development trade-offs. The results were as follows: (1) In 2009–2018, the change in the social–ecological production landscapes pattern in Mizhi County showed a significant reduction in agricultural production landscapes, relatively stable social living landscapes, and an increase in ecological landscapes; (2) in 2009–2018, the SELPR increased by 12.38%. The spatial distribution of resilience was significantly different, showing a distribution pattern of high central and low surrounding areas; (3) the county’s watershed development zones were divided into five partitions: synergistic promotion areas, ecological restoration areas, social development areas, production optimization areas, and comprehensive remediation areas. The five types of zones have a certain agglomeration effect. In addition, the main obstacle factors affecting the SELPR of each zone are quite different. The key issues and development directions of different types of watersheds are also proposed in this paper.

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“…Recently, the sustainable development of natural landscapes has received an increasing attention worldwide. Sustainability studies of landscapes have evolved into a vibrant research field, especially since 2004-2006 [1]. The landscapes of a territory are the consequence of its history [2] and the result of biodiversity distribution in accordance with physiographic and structural traits [3,4].…”

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Land Degeneration due to Water Infiltration and Sub-Erosion: A Case Study of Soil Slope Failure at the National Geological Park of Qian-an Mud Forest, China

Rui

Nie

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Sustainable development of the natural landscape has received an increasing attention worldwide. Identifying the causes of land degradation is the primary condition for adopting appropriate methods to preserve degraded landscapes. The National Geological Park of Qian-an mud forest in China is facing widespread land degradation, which not only threatens landscape development but also endangers many households and farmlands. Using the park as a research object, we identified the types of slope failure and the factors that contribute to their occurrence. During June 2017, a detailed field survey conducted in a representative area of the studied region found two main types of slope failure: soil cave piping and vertical collapse. Physicochemical properties of the soil samples were measured in the laboratory. Results show that soil slope failure is controlled by three factors: (1) the typical geological structure of the mud forest area represented by an upper layer of thick loess sub-sandy soil and the near-vertical slope morphology; (2) particular soil properties, especially soil dispersibility; and (3) special climate conditions with distinct wet and dry seasons.

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Sustainable landscapes and landscape sustainability: A tale of two concepts

Cited by 79 publications

References 74 publications

Twitter Analysis of Global Communication in the Field of Sustainability

Twitter Analysis of Global Communication in the Field of Sustainability

Evolutionary Characteristics and Trade-Offs’ Development of Social–Ecological Production Landscapes in the Loess Plateau Region from a Resilience Point of View: A Case Study in Mizhi County, China

Land Degeneration due to Water Infiltration and Sub-Erosion: A Case Study of Soil Slope Failure at the National Geological Park of Qian-an Mud Forest, China

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