Back to the future, back to basics: the social ecology of landscapes and the future of landscape planning

摘要: This paper discusses what we believe are the key needs and assets of landscape planning at close century. While ecology systems approaches have increased our understanding ecological sustainability, this still fails to constitute a sufficient basis for prescribing overall regional sustainability. If foster strategies that will effectively lead sustainable development, must, like predecessors, investigate advocate more critical social landscapes. most us venerate works Mumford, McHarg, Olmstead, generally forget two facts. First, their real value was in ability formulate articulate socially ecologically relevant arguments problems associated with an aberrant development paradigm. Second, they spoke not strategy technique, but challenging altering dominant theories practices caused degradation landscapes first place. Landscape is clearly relevant. Our challenge therefore lies relevance. To become relevant, planners must aware of, account for, incorporate, opportunities cultural adoptability, economic viability, equitability, political relevancy on condition For although natural processes largely determine landscapes, continue directionality these take. Since fate hands humankind, it imperative research move beyond traditional descriptions space, academic divisions, rational methods. We also reassert vision, value, ethic, relationships among physical, cultural, economic, dimensions finally, better incorporate knowledges, perceptions, exist between places study peoples communities who call them home.