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Welche landwirtschaftlichen Produkte werden wo, wie und wann erzeugt? Je nach Region weist die Landwirtschaft in Europa ganz unterschiedliche Landnutzungsformen und -intensitäten auf. Warum ist das eigentlich so? Das vorliegende Grundlagenwerk zur LANDWIRTSCHAFTLICHEN STANDORTTHEORIE geht zum einen den Ursachen für die räumlichen und zeitlichen Unterschiede von Landnutzungsprogrammen und -intensitäten nach. Zum anderen stellt es darauf aufbauend Instrumente zur politischen Einflussnahme auf die Landnutzungsprogramme und die Landnutzungsintensitäten vor. Das Buch ist eine optimale Informationsgrundlage - für politische Entscheidungsträger in der Agrar-, Wirtschafts- und Umweltpolitik zur Gestaltung von Instrumenten für die Beeinflussung der Landnutzungsprogramme und Landnutzungsintensitäten; - für Studierende der Agrarwissenschaften, der Geographie und der Umweltwissenschaften als umfassende Wissensbasis zu den Ursachen unterschiedlicher regionaler und betrieblicher Landnutzungsprogramme und -intensitäten; - für den landwirtschaftlichen Unternehmer, der ein nachhaltig möglichst hohes Einkommen erwirtschaften möchte und dafür Anregungen zur Gestaltung des Landnutzungsprogrammes und der Landnutzungsintensität auf seinem Betriebsstandort sucht; - für den interessierten Laien, der auf seinen Reisen das unterschiedliche Bild der Landnutzung bemerkt und wissen möchte, warum das so ist

Book ; The landscape consists of both the external environment, where each of us lives, and how we perceive it – as familiar, comforting, dangerous, ugly, beautiful etc. We see it from our window, we walk and drive through it and we visit it for recreation or on holiday. It plays an important but often under-appreciated role in our quality of life, or sense of belonging and as a background for many activities. At a European level the landscape is recognised and given prominence through the European Landscape Convention (ELC). The ELC is important for raising awareness of the landscape and enshrined in the convention text is the need for citizens to become involved in looking after it. However, this need is not very widely known nor is it clear how citizens are supposed to become active in their local landscape. The E-CLIC project, carried out under the auspices of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme aimed to start the process of rectifying this omission by developing new and exciting ways for everyone to learn, innovate and cooperate. The concept of lifelong learning is that learning is not something we do only at school or university and then stop but that we need to learn all through our lives. Since the world around us – including the landscape – is constantly changing we need to be adaptable and for this we need to keep learning. Landscape is not a static backdrop to our activities but it changes around us and our own actions change it too, directly and indirectly. In different places there are different pressures on the landscape – urban development, rural change, effects on heritage and identity and the impacts of infrastructure and tourism – important and specific challenges. If we care about our surroundings enough to want to help to protect the landscape or to participate in planning for its development then we need tools to help us respond and understand the challenges and to enable us to participate more meaningfully. This handbook for teachers at secondary school, university and continuing education levels provides guidance on how to use the large number of resources and tools developed within the E-CLIC project and ways of incorporating landscape and the ELC into existing educational curricula and programmes. The resources and tools developed within the E-CLIC project include: • A Learning package aiming to familiarise the learner with the ELC, the challenges facing the landscape in different countries and ways to communicate solutions to such challenges by using IT methods and tools. • A review report of landscape-related policy issues. • A Best Practice Library of case studies relating to the implementation of ELC measures. • A Library of ICT resources • The results of a European-wide competition which produced interesting and imaginative solutions to landscape challenges. Essentially, the handbook can be used as part of environmental education or promoting public awareness of European landscape policy and most important attract the active participation of people in the assessment of their local landscape. The ELC is to be taken as a basis for raising the interest of youth and young/older adults in a number of everyday and universal "values" that it helps to promote the landscape! ; This project has been funded with the support of the European Commission.

This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cities. Numerous cities around the world are located alongside bodies of water in the form of coastlines, lakes, rivers and canals, but the relationship between city inhabitants and these water sources has often been ambivalent. In many cities, water has been polluted, engineered or ignored completely. But, due to an increasing awareness of the strong connections between city, people, nature and water and health, this paradigm is shifting. The international editorial team, consisting of researchers and professionals across several disciplines, leads the reader through theoretical aspects, evidence, illustrated case studies, risk assessment and a series of validated tools to aid planning and design before finishing with overarching planning and design principles for a range of blue-space types. Over 200 full-colour illustrations accompany the case-study examples from geographic locations all over the world, including Portugal, the United Kingdom, China, Canada, the US, South Korea, Singapore, Norway and Estonia. With green and blue infrastructure now at the forefront of current policies and trends to promote healthy, sustainable cities, Urban Blue Spaces is a must-have for professionals and students in landscape planning, urban design and environmental design.