What is holistic landscape ecology? A conceptual introduction

Naveh, Zev

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“…Furthermore, Roe et al, 2008), and less on the consequences of the ambition of the ELC for spatial design practice (Van Damme & Antrop, 2010). Holistic landscape conception is an important tradition in landscape research (Antrop, 2005;Naveh, 2000Naveh, , 2001. According to Naveh (2000), holism refers to approaches of wholeness, connectedness and ordered complexity.…”

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“…Holistic landscape conception is an important tradition in landscape research (Antrop, 2005;Naveh, 2000Naveh, , 2001. According to Naveh (2000), holism refers to approaches of wholeness, connectedness and ordered complexity. As such, he refers to a paradigm shift "from parts to wholes", from "dissection, fragmentation and analysis of wholes into smaller and smaller particles, towards integration, connectedness, synthesis and complementation" (p. 8), perceiving all parts in their full context.…”

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Landscape as a Medium for Integration in Design Practice: The Case of Flanders, Belgium

Damme

Leinfelder

Uyttenhove

2013

European Planning Studies

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The twenty-first century has seen a remarkable revival of interest in landscape by disciplines of spatial design, such as landscape architecture, urban design and architecture. Inspired by the principles of the European Landscape Convention (ELC), several authors have suggested extending the concept of landscape into a metaphor for inclusive multiplicity and pluralism in design and planning. However, the implementation of the ELC is rather complex as it deliberately contains no methodological or practical guidelines. In this paper, we explore whether or not the holistic approach towards landscape in the spirit of the ELC actually affects Flemish design in practice. To this end, we study interviewees' perspectives on the use of landscape in design and their experiences with it by means of a qualitative interpretive research design with multiple triangulation of data collection methods. First, we present the perspectives of the study on landscape as a medium to facilitate integration in design projects, by discussing four separate topics where this is the case. Second, we conceptualize the integration of landscape in spatial design as an expertise which can be obtained by spatial designers, regardless of their disciplinary background through awareness-raising, training and education.

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Section: From Theory To Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Theory To Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Landscape as a Medium for Integration in Design Practice: The Case of Flanders, Belgium

Damme

Leinfelder

Uyttenhove

2013

European Planning Studies

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“…The contents are reflective of the quantitative tradition in American ecology and the holistic problem-solving ecological approaches in European ecology. Both types of research are needed, and the emergence of both types represents a significant advancement in urban and landscape ecology in the United States in recent years (Naveh, 2000;Palang et al, 2000;Wu and Hobbs, 2002).…”

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Collaborative landscape-scale ecological research: Emerging trends in urban and regional ecology

Musacchio

2004

Urban Ecosystems

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IntroductionLong-term environmental changes in urban ecosystems in the United States such as habitat loss and fragmentation, drastic modifications of local and regional climate, and contamination and depletion of water resources have raised concerns among researchers across many disciplines, such as ecology, geography, anthropology, sociology, planning, and design. Certain disciplines, such as landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design, can help determine how policies, plans, designs, and management strategies respond to the long-term environmental changes in urban environments. New research initiatives in urban and regional ecology in the United States represent an unprecedented opportunity for a broader dialogue between ecologists, social scientists, planners, and designers about the future of cities worldwide. However, the integration of ecological research into urban policy, planning, design, and management strategies is complex, but it is one of the key issues and research priorities in landscape ecology (Musacchio and Wu, 2002;Wu and Hobbs, 2002). In order to address this challenge, ecologists, social scientists, planners, and designers will need to work collaboratively to develop interdisciplinary approaches for understanding the effects of long-term changes in urban spatial patterns, landscapes, and environmental quality. Landscape architects, urban planners, and urban designers will need to be able to utilize such interdisciplinary information in the development of sustainable human settlements.In the United States, important examples of interdisciplinary approaches are occurring at emerging centers of urban ecological research and application such as Baltimore (MD), Detroit (MI), Phoenix (AZ), Seattle (WA), and Willamette Valley (OR). These groups are performing large-scale ecological studies of urbanized and urbanizing regions and are funded by recent initiatives of the National Science Foundation (e.g., Long-Term Ecological Research and Biocomplexity), Environmental Protection Agency (e.g., Science To Achieve Results), NASA (e.g., Land Use and Land Cover Change research), United States Geological Survey, and United States Department of Agriculture. The researchers include ecologists, geologists, social scientists, planners, and designers who investigate how ecological research 176 MUSACCHIO AND WU about changing urban environments can be integrated into policy, planning, design, and management strategies. Despite these significant efforts, we have only begun the process of developing a comprehensive knowledge base for building more sustainable cities and regions.This special issue highlights some of the important contributions from these studies, together representing one of the current frontiers in ecology: interdisciplinary studies of changes in human-dominated landscapes and their ecological and socioeconomic consequences. The special issue provides insights into the status of research and applications from the leading centers of urban and regional ecological research in the United S...

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“…In response, the system builds new internal structures that make use of the energy by dissipating it (Abel and Stepp 2003, Hornborg 1998, Kay et al 1999, Kay and Schneider 1994. Hence, open systems export entropy in order to maintain internal negentropy, or order (Naveh 2000). The emergent self-organizing structures that dissipate energy often take the form of hierarchies (Kay et al 1999).…”

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Systems Thinking in the Forest Service: a Framework to Guide Practical Application for Social-Ecological Management in the Enterprise Program

Kmon¹

2000

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The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Enterprise Program (EP), which provides fee-forservice consulting services to the USFS, is interested in integrating systems thinking into its service offerings. Despite there being several excellent sources on the range and diversity of systems thinking, no single framework exists that thoroughly yet concisely outlines what systems thinking is along with its deep history, theoretical tenets, and soft and hard approaches. This thesis is an attempt to create such a framework, aimed specifically at practical application in a land management agency, through literature synthesis injected with original analysis. The usefulness of the framework is then tested using three case studies within the EP and the agency as a whole.The framework highlights several important aspects of systems thinking, both generally and related specifically to social-ecological management. First, systems thinking is the transdisciplinary study of complex phenomena from a holistic, rather than reductionist, perspective. The world can be viewed as a massive set of embedded systems -elements with relations that lead to nonlinear behavior -making the role of the observer essential in identifying scales of interest and interactions amongst them. Second, the deep history of holistic thinking suggests that its modern scientific study could benefit from exploring the East's long-standing cultural and spiritual approaches to holism through cognitive unity and oneness with mankind and nature. Third, categorizations of systems approaches as "soft" versus "hard" are helpful but can distract us from the ultimate goal of systems thinking, which is to understand the various tools in the systems thinking toolbox so as to apply them critically and creatively to make a meaningful difference in the world. Fourth, I see the soft systems approaches as having a distinct systems thinking orientation and the hard systems ii approaches as overlapping substantially with operations research, the close cousin of systems thinking. Fifth, I identify a spectrum of complexity, contending that systems thinking tends to be concerned with what I call subjectively and computationally complex systems, as well as complex adaptive systems, leaving simple systems for other approaches. Finally, I contend that it is the soft systems approaches and the two theoretical pillars of hierarchy theory and cooperation theory that will aid wicked social-ecological problem solving the most.The framework is applied to three case studies. Examination of the EP reorganization using a hard systems approach revealed two critical high-level functions that were absent in the current structure, paving the way for new designs that could take those functions into account. Analysis of an initiative to increase citizen recreation on USFS lands showed that a systems approach had been improperly applied and how the application of a soft approach at the onset could have systematically framed the problem and offered unique normative insights for giving voice to relevant ...

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What is holistic landscape ecology? A conceptual introduction

Cited by 222 publications

References 25 publications

Landscape as a Medium for Integration in Design Practice: The Case of Flanders, Belgium

Landscape as a Medium for Integration in Design Practice: The Case of Flanders, Belgium

Collaborative landscape-scale ecological research: Emerging trends in urban and regional ecology

Systems Thinking in the Forest Service: a Framework to Guide Practical Application for Social-Ecological Management in the Enterprise Program

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