Landscape-Based Visions as Powerful Boundary Objects in Spatial Planning: Lessons from Three Dutch Projects

Sabine van Rooij, Wim Timmermans, Onno Roosenschoon, Saskia Keesstra, Marjolein Sterk and Bas Pedroli
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Sabine van Rooij: Wageningen Environmental Research, P.O. Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Wim Timmermans: Wageningen Environmental Research, P.O. Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Onno Roosenschoon: Wageningen Environmental Research, P.O. Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Saskia Keesstra: Wageningen Environmental Research, P.O. Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Marjolein Sterk: Wageningen Environmental Research, P.O. Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Bas Pedroli: Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

Land, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: In a context of a rapidly changing livability of towns and countryside, climate change and biodiversity decrease, this paper introduces a landscape-based planning approach to regional spatial policy challenges allowing a regime shift towards a future land system resilient to external pressures. The concept of nature-based solutions and transition theory are combined in this approach, in which co-created normative future visions serve as boundary concepts. Rather than as an object in itself, the landscape is considered as a comprehensive principle, to which all spatial processes are inherently related. We illustrate this approach with three projects in the Netherlands in which landscape-based visions were used to guide the land transition, going beyond the traditional nature-based solutions. The projects studied show that a shared long-term future landscape vision is a powerful boundary concept and a crucial source of inspiration for a coherent design approach to solve today’s spatial planning problems. Further, they show that cherishing abiotic differences in the landscape enhances sustainable and resilient landscapes, that co-creation in the social network is a prerequisite for shared solutions, and that a landscape-based approach enhances future-proof land-use transitions to adaptive, circular, and biodiverse landscapes.

Keywords: nature-based solutions; transition; regional planning; landscape management; future vision; circularity; resource management; biodiversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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