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

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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
    Civil, Surveying and Environmental Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308, Australia)

  • 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)

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.

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  • Sabine van Rooij & Wim Timmermans & Onno Roosenschoon & Saskia Keesstra & Marjolein Sterk & Bas Pedroli, 2020. "Landscape-Based Visions as Powerful Boundary Objects in Spatial Planning: Lessons from Three Dutch Projects," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-14, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:10:y:2020:i:1:p:16-:d:469127
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