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Assessing the optimality of landscape structure in a landscape plan (a Lithuanian example)
The aim of the article is to theoretically and methodologically interpret the optimal structure of cultural landscape as the most complicated objective in landscape management, and land management in general. Universally, landscape optimality can be interpreted through the system of the fundamental anthropo-ecological criteria taken from the methodology of land management. The conceptual basis of landscape management lies in establishing landscape planning zones with different landscape use, protection and management measures for achieving target/optimal spatial structure of the landscape. At the national level of planning, landscape structure optimality should be assessed in compliance to the strategic macro-zones’, differentiated to ecologic compensation and economic activity proportion matching the universal \"golden ratio\" (~60:40). In a district, or basic, level of planning, landscape management zone optimality is measured using seven indices: naturalness, healthiness, visual distinctness, memorability, accessibility, terrain flatness and productivity. One of the tasks of the research was to create a parameter setting system that could help to automatically determine the optimal land use structure parameters for any type of the existing or emerging landscape management zone (planotope) taking into account: (1) the general nature of the landscape (the degree of cultivation), (2) the use and management regulatory interests (priorities), (3) the major geomorphologic features. The suggested qualitative gradation setting and adjustment works by stepping down through the mentioned (1) to (3) planotope classification levels, at each level revising and narrowing the meaning of the parameters. The set of three correction tables corresponding to each level of classification is offered.
Assessing the optimality of landscape structure in a landscape plan (a Lithuanian example)
The aim of the article is to theoretically and methodologically interpret the optimal structure of cultural landscape as the most complicated objective in landscape management, and land management in general. Universally, landscape optimality can be interpreted through the system of the fundamental anthropo-ecological criteria taken from the methodology of land management. The conceptual basis of landscape management lies in establishing landscape planning zones with different landscape use, protection and management measures for achieving target/optimal spatial structure of the landscape. At the national level of planning, landscape structure optimality should be assessed in compliance to the strategic macro-zones’, differentiated to ecologic compensation and economic activity proportion matching the universal \"golden ratio\" (~60:40). In a district, or basic, level of planning, landscape management zone optimality is measured using seven indices: naturalness, healthiness, visual distinctness, memorability, accessibility, terrain flatness and productivity. One of the tasks of the research was to create a parameter setting system that could help to automatically determine the optimal land use structure parameters for any type of the existing or emerging landscape management zone (planotope) taking into account: (1) the general nature of the landscape (the degree of cultivation), (2) the use and management regulatory interests (priorities), (3) the major geomorphologic features. The suggested qualitative gradation setting and adjustment works by stepping down through the mentioned (1) to (3) planotope classification levels, at each level revising and narrowing the meaning of the parameters. The set of three correction tables corresponding to each level of classification is offered.
Assessing the optimality of landscape structure in a landscape plan (a Lithuanian example)
Veteikis, Darijus (author) / Kavaliauskas, Paulius (author) / Skorupskas, Ričardas (author)
2016-01-01
Landscape and Landscape Ecology. Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Landscape Ecology, 27-29 May 2015, Nitra, Slovakia / Halada, Ľ., Bača, A., Boltižiar, M. (eds.), Bratislava : Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2016, p. 348-358 ; ISBN 9788089325283
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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