Applying the Evaluation of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Landscape Architecture Design: Challenges and Opportunities

Xin Cheng, Sylvie Van Damme and Pieter Uyttenhove
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Xin Cheng: Department of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China
Sylvie Van Damme: School of Arts, University College Ghent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Pieter Uyttenhove: Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 7, 1-14

Abstract: Landscape architects play a significant role in safeguarding urban landscapes and human well-being by means of design and they call for practical knowledge, skills, and methods to address increasing environmental pressure. Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are recognized as highly related to landscape architecture (LA) studies, and the outcomes of CES evaluations have the potential to support LA practice. However, few efforts have focused on systematically investigating CES in LA studies. Additionally, how CES evaluations are performed in LA studies is rarely researched. This study aims to identify the challenges and provide recommendations for applying CES evaluations to LA practice, focusing specifically on LA design. To conclude, three challenges are identified, namely a lack of consistent concepts (conceptual challenge); a lack of CES evaluation methods to inform designs (methodological challenge); and practical issues of transferring CES evaluations to LA design (practical challenge). Based on our findings, we highlight using CES as a common term to refer to socio-cultural values and encourage more CES evaluation methods to be developed and tested for LA design. In addition, we encourage more studies to explore the links of CES and landscape features and address other practical issues to better transfer CES evaluations onto LA designs.

Keywords: landscape architecture; cultural ecosystem services; design; evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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