Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services: Theories and Methods for Application in Europe
In: Landscape Series 24
In: Springer eBook Collection
In: Springer eBooks
In: Biomedical and Life Sciences
1. Landscape planning and ecosystem services: the sum is more than the parts -- 2. Objectives and structure of the book -- 3. Theories and methodology for ecosystem services assessment in landscape planning -- 4. The basis of evaluation: legal, economic and social factors -- 5. Data sources for assessments -- 6. Using GIS in landscape planning -- 7. Ecosystem services under pressure -- 8. European Union policies and standards as drivers for ecosystem service provision and impairment -- 9. Assessing pressures in landscape planning -- 10. Production capacity and actual provision of food, materials and energy -- 11. Cooper, Hiscock: Catchment water resources -- 12. Renewable energy production capacities and goods -- 13.Regional climate regulation capacities -- 14. Greenhouse gas storage and sequestration function -- 15. Landscape aesthetic capacities as a cultural ecosystem service -- 16. The natural support system of ecosystems -- 17. Identification and evaluation of habitat development potentials -- 18. Habitat capacity -- 19. Evaluation of multifunctionality and aggregated benefits -- 20. Economic valuation of services -- 21. Developing landscape planning objectives and measures -- 22. Measures for protecting soil-related ecosystem services -- 23. Mitigation measures for water pollution and flooding -- 24. Measures for landscape aesthetics and recreational quality -- 25. Measures for biodiversity -- 26. Methods for increasing spatial and cost effectiveness of measures through multifunctionality -- 27. Leitbilder and scenarios in landscape planning -- 28. Techniques for participatory approaches -- 29. Design in landscape planning solutions -- 30. Perspectives from outside the EU: Influence of legal and planning frameworks on landscape planning -- 31. Synthesis and prospects for landscape planning