Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality

The term “multifunctional landscapes” has been greeted with suspicion in some quarters as unnecessary jargon for which there are simpler and better-known alternatives, such as multiple use. This community essay explores the meanings associated with landscape multifunctionality and concludes that it...

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Main Author: Paul Selman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2009-11-01
Series:Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
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Online Access:http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol5iss2/communityessay.pselman.html
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description The term “multifunctional landscapes” has been greeted with suspicion in some quarters as unnecessary jargon for which there are simpler and better-known alternatives, such as multiple use. This community essay explores the meanings associated with landscape multifunctionality and concludes that it is, in fact, a useful term that reflects important new ideas. In particular, it can help to promote landscapes that cross urban-rural divides, are more sustainable, and are planned and implemented in an integrated way.
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Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
multiple resource management
landscape planning
environmental design
land use
socioeconomic aspects
sustainability
multifunctionality
green infrastructure
title Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality
title_full Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality
title_fullStr Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality
title_full_unstemmed Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality
title_short Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality
title_sort community essay planning for landscape multifunctionality
topic multiple resource management
landscape planning
environmental design
land use
socioeconomic aspects
sustainability
multifunctionality
green infrastructure
url http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol5iss2/communityessay.pselman.html
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