Planning Rural Landscapes by Cunha, Natália; Magalhães, Manuela;

Short description:

Appealing to a broad audience, this book bridges different issues, from landscape to ecosystems, planning to implementation, and policies to local community willingness. This book outlines a methodology for defining Green Infrastructure in rural landscapes, showing how it underpins Ecosystem Services and aligns with various EU directives.

Long description:

Appealing to a broad audience, this book bridges different issues, from landscape to ecosystems, planning to implementation, and policies to local community willingness. This book outlines a methodology for defining green infrastructure (GI) in rural landscapes, showing how it underpins ecosystem services (ES) and aligns with various European Union (EU) directives. There are presented examples in Portuguese rural landscapes alongside international initiatives from several countries.

Building on the concept of landscape as an open, autopoietic system with distinct resilience thresholds, the book demonstrates how GI serves as a versatile framework to support ES, implement nature-based solutions and the more recent Nature-Futures-Framework scenarios. Through real-world studies, the authors illustrate its flexibility and applicability across different scales and environments while respecting each location’s unique characteristics.

Written for planners, designers, policymakers, and academic institutions, this book offers a valuable resource for supporting sustainable land management, public policy formulation, planning, and innovative design practices, fostering informed debate on these topics and advancing eco-conscious initiatives for a sustainable future.

Table of Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction

SECTION I. A COMMON GROUND FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN LANDSCAPE PLANNING

1 Concept of Structure - evolution, modalities, problems

Adriana Veríssimo Serrão

2. Landscape System - concepts and a methodology for planning landscapes FIG

Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha

3.   Reconnecting Networks - A methodological approach to Green Infrastructure design at landscape level FIG

Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães

4. From planning to practice - Restoration and conservation actions for GI implementation

Luísa Franco, Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães

5. The management logics of private landowners and their implication for landscape transformation

Luísa Franco, Manuela Magalhães, Fernando Oliveira Batista

6. Dynamic landscapes: Insights into Geology and Geomorphology diversity

Maria Manuela Abreu, Selma Pena

SECTION II. LINKING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN RURAL LANDSCAPE

7. Unlocking Nature’s Benefits: Ecosystem services in rural landscape planning

Selma Pena, Pedro Xavier, Natália Cunha, Ana Müller

8. EUNIS Habitat Classification – Implementation at the national level for mainland Portugal

Pedro Xavier, Silvia Ribeiro, Jorge Capelo, Selma Pena, Natália Cunha

9. A comprehensive analysis of water conservation ecosystem services at the river basin level

Selma Pena, Manuela Abreu, Natália Cunha

10. Soil conservation ecosystem services at regional scale

Selma Pena, Manuela Abreu, Nuno Cortez 

11.  Biodiversity ecosystem services: a case study on Habitat maintenance for flora species with conservation status in Portugal

Pedro Xavier, Sílvia Ribeiro, Dalila Espirito-Santo, Selma Pena, Natália Cunha

SECTION III. APPLICATIONS ACROSS SCALES AND COUNTRIES

12.  Monsanto Urban Forest Landscape Plan: Integrating Nature-Based Solutions into Lisbon's Metropolitan Green Infrastructure

Ana Müller, Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha, Selma Pena, Luísa Franco

13.  Noticing the Landscape: dwelling, abandoning, entangling

Francisca Lima, Annie Gallagher, Melisa Miranda Correa, Tiago Torres-Campos

14.  Eco Account and State-wide Biotope Network Plan (SW Germany)

Christian Küpfer

15.  Agroecosystems as Green Infrastructure. Case Study in Milan (Italy)

Francesca Neonato

16.  Boughzoul (Algeria), a new « sustainable » town waiting for users

Fares Trodi, Karima Bencherif-Trodi

17.  Green Infrastructure in Spain 

Pedro Calaza, Paloma Cariñanos

18.  Landscape transformation across scales: From municipal to local experience

Ana Müller, Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha

19.  Planning towards a sustainable and fire resilient landscape on Commons Lands

Inês Adagói, Pedro Xavier, Selma Pena

Index