5. Planning future landscapes

F1. Future landscape development: forecast, visions and scenarios

Michał Sobala, Krzysztof Badora, Urszula Myga-Piątek, Katarzyna Pukowiec-Kurda, Anna Żemła-Siesicka

Contemporary global processes are the factors that have consequences in landscape transformation. They can be analysed at various spatial levels: local, regional and global, which determines the accuracy and probability of predictions. Predicting landscape changes is challenging. Despite some difficulties concerning that issue, it seems obvious to try to predict what the landscape in the future will be. This session focuses on presenting the results of research on that issue – the prognosis for landscape development.

F2. Planning and policy approaches for future landscapes: learning from past experiences to develop novel pathways

Simona R. Gradinaru, Anna M. Hersperger, Ana Beatriz Pierri-Daunt

Worldwide, land transformations have contributed to amplifying environmental challenges such as depletion of food providing areas, climate change effects, or soil degradation. Efforts need to be put in improving the capacity of governments and authorities to formulate and implement policies which tackle these challenges. This symposium aims to assemble talks that discuss innovative approaches for integrating landscape ecology principles, concepts, methods into planning and policy for better addressing these challenges. We encourage papers which address all steps of the planning cycle.

F3. Green Infrastructure as socio-ecological systems: governance for the common good

Isabel Loupa-Ramos, Werner Rolf

This symposium aims to reflect on research and practice about Green Infrastructure (GI) planning with a focus on governance arrangements and how it contributes to transformative action towards sustainable development of cities and beyond. Building on the concept that humans are part of nature, addressing GI as a socio-ecological system enables to explore a broader set of relationships between pattern and processes and people and action. We expect to follow up sound science-based evidence on the GI concept, highlighting linkages and knowledge gaps, and to shape the research agenda further to enhance GI planning.

F4. Integrating landscape science into development, conservation and natural resources planning

Samuel Cushman, Zaneta Kaszta

Combining ecological modelling and analysis with policy and management decisions is deeply challenging. In this symposium we focus on welcoming methods, tools, models, and approaches to link management and science.