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Main Title Basic and Clinical Environmental Approaches in Landscape Planning [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Shimizu, Hiroyuki.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Murayama, Akito.
Publisher Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer,
Year Published 2014
Call Number HT165.5-169.9
ISBN 9784431544159
Subjects Geography ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54415-9
Collation XII, 161 p. 129 illus., 118 illus. in color. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Cultural Landscape: What People Give Value to in Their Surroundings -- Landscape Perception in Japan and Germany.- New Trend of Landscape Planning & Design in Japan -- Possibility of Japanese Landscape Planning for Development Management -- Landscape Perception of the Residents in Nyu Village, Kushida-River -- Landscape Sequence of Kushida-River -- Social Perceptions of Wetlands and their Implications to Environmental Decision Making -- How can We Make Mandala of Landscape Issues on Kushida-River -- Issues on Clinical Environmental Approach in Multi-Scale, Participatory Landscape Planning. 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.